SECRET

CYPHER MESSAGE

OG, 16,209

BERNE/3377/IN

To: Foreign Office.

From: BERNE.

D. (Untimed) 25th September 1942.

R. 7.00 a.m. 26th September 1942.

R. S.4 (OG) 0915 hours 30.9.42

Mr. Norton. No.3377. 25th September 1942.

My telegram No.3299 17/9.

Swiss Government inform me prisoners formerly at Oflag VI B will be distributed as follows:- Oflag IX A/Z, 445 officers and men including Hindu officers and those eligible repatriation. Senior British officer Lieutenant-Colonel G.W. Kennedy prisoner of war No.1195.

Oflag XXI B 413 officers and men. All officers members Royal Air Force senior British officer Wing Commander H.C. Hyde, prisoner of war No.628.

Oflag VII B 1,860 officers and men, senior British officer Major J.H.V. Higgon, prisoner of war No.563.