British Prisoners in Germany.
Letter from Flight Lieut. W. Baxter Ellis.

Mr. W.B. Ellis, of Moorside, Fenham, Newcastle, has just received a letter dated October 11, from his son, Flight Lieut. W. Baxter Ellis, who is a prisoner of war in Germany, and is at Marienberg, Wurxburg, Bavaria, and who says:

“The large quantity of parcels which you sent have, in spite of my telling you not to send too much, been very acceptable, as I have had to feed five or six comrades, and our food depends entirely on parcels received. In the future will you please send me, without incurring too much expense, plenty of milk, sugar, tea, flour, egg powders and other bulk articles.”

To those who send parcels for prisoners of war in Germany, the following list of articles will be suitable to include in the parcels.: Rice, sago, tapioca, maccaroni, vermicelli, oatmeal, packet marrowfat peas, haricot beans, butter beans, semolina, flour, cornflour, sugar (particularly sugar if available), and a little salt, as well as currants, raisins, Hugon’s beef suet (shredded); tinned milk, cocoa, custard and egg powders, and tinned solidified methylated spirits; also Symington’s soups in packets. A postcard from a prisoner says: “We prefer these raw materials even to tinned goods, as we make puddings (boiled), custards with tinned milk, scones, pancakes etc. on a tin stove with ‘solid-methy’. Rice pudding and peas are A1”.