THE SOLDIERS' MAILS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 31, 5 October 1915, Page 8

THE SOLDIERS' MAILS.

DIFFICULTIES OF DELIVERY. '*Kii I'hesb Association. Wellington, October I. Referring to the delivery of mails at the front, the Defence Ministei staled this evening that he had received information from various quar-j ters that letters and parcels had been delivered regularly at the front. In very many instances he realised that legitimate complaints had been made. One explanation put before him recently had been that some mails had been destroyed by lire, after being landed at Callipoli. Another trouble •,va s the departure of sick or wounded men from Gallipoli, before their mail had readied them. The letters were sent after them, but there might be delay or even failure to deliver. The Minister added that no evidence of the theft of letters or parcels had been placed before him. It was possible that parcels had been stolen, but the checks applied by the authorities wore fairly complete. He knew that parcels had been delivered right into the trenches. The matter would bo investigated by Lieut.-Colonel It. H. Rhodes.