WOUNDED SOLDIERS
REQUESTS FOR DETAILS NOT TO BE FORWARDED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 25. Numerous private requests for information about casualties were still being received in the Middle East, both by headquarters of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. and also by individual soldiers, despite the previous intimation that these could not be answered and were posted back to Base Records, Wellington, said the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, today. The Government, therefore, had decided that in future the post office would not be permitted to accept such cables for transmission. Mr Jones added that the Government was not imposing restrictions on the sending of cables to individual members of the 2nd N.Z.E.F., but he explained that in the case of inquiries about a soldier other than the recipient of the inquiry, the Censorship Regulations prevented a reply being sent other than a statement that the soldier concerned was safe and well.
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Southland Times, Issue 24832, 26 August 1942, Page 6
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150WOUNDED SOLDIERS Southland Times, Issue 24832, 26 August 1942, Page 6
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