Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-25 | Page 9 | Germans Rob the Red Cross Parcels Sent to Prisoners

Germans Rob the Red Cross Parcels I Sent to Prisoners SYDNEY, Australia. March in (By mail ) Charges that Germans who handled Red Cros parcels for Austra-lian Austra-lian soldiers in German prison camps j robbed the prisoners of their Red ('ross parcels are made by Captain Alexander Donaldson of the steamship Matunga. He WU captured when the MaUinga was taken by the German raider Wolf and was sent to a prison camp in the HgrtS mountains. "The officer in charge of the camp 1 was an old rogue," said Captain Ron- 1 aldson. "He seemed to make a husl- n - - of 1 obbing 11 - of our R d Cross parcels. About 40 per cent of them went astray before the armistice and VJ about 80 per cent after it, owing to Jk disorganization in Germany. The VJ 'Fritz' who had the job of driving from ation 'o the camp with our par-eels par-eels bad a habit of dropping a lot of them off at his shop on the way up '