HC Deb 05 September 1940 vol 365 cc23-4
39. Mr. Keeling

asked the Secretary of State for War what arrangements have been made for the exchange of letters with British prisoners of war in Italian hands and for the despatch of food and clothing to them?

Mr. Law

Pending the receipt of the camp addresses of British prisoners of war in Italian hands, letters and postcards which are posted to them in this country are being forwarded to the Italian Red Cross in Rome for re-direction. As regards parcels of food and clothing, the War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John have requested the International Red Cross Committee in Geneva to send parcels, from stocks in their possession, through the same channels for distribution to these prisoners of war.