FOR FRIENDS IN ENEMY LANDS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2389, 19 February 1915, Page 5

FOR FRIENDS IN ENEMY LANDS

Information has. been reccirod from' ' the Foreign Office in London that British subjects and others wishing to com- .: municate with British subjects detained or resident in enemy countries may do so through an agency in a neutral cotm--, try, and correspondents may select their own private agency. Messrs. Cook and Son, whose head office:is at.Ludgate, Circus, London, E.C.. are nominated as a sutiable firm for the' transmission of such communications. Such letters, intended for . transmission to enemy countries via neutral countries should he as brief as possible, should' contain nothing but personal matter, and should, if possible, bo written in English cr German; preferably German to pass the censorship more speedily in the enemy country. , : Any abuse of this privilege, sncli as giving information which, might be of any assistance to the enemy,;or writing;long lettefs, will result- in the -letters being stopped. It should be, distinctly* understood that this privilege extends" only to communication with British subjects detained or resident in an-enemy-conntry. CoTresjwndericb" For'prisoners of war interned in' an„ enemy .country will continue passed through the. Chief Censor in London arid the Prisoner's of War'lnformation Bureau m Bar-, lin as before. -. .... ... . Payments of money to British subjects who are detained in an enemy country, and unable to return to His Majesty's Dominions, do 1 not constitute an in. Mngemcnt of the Trading With the Enemy Proclamation, but it may be necessary- to forward such remittances through a neutral country. ■ It is suggested that it may be fcfand possible to forward the money through Messrs. Cook and Son or one of the.principal ban&s. '. -.v.-.:'---