LETTERS FOR BRITISH PRISONERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 220, 24 February 1915, Page 7

LETTERS FOR BRITISH PRISONERS.

OFFICIAL PROCEDURE EXPLAINED. The following is published for General information: —• "Information has been received from the Foreign Office in London that British subjects and others wishing to communicate with British subjects detained or resident in enemy countries may do so through an agency in a neutral country, and correspondents may select their own private agency. Messrs Cook and Son, whose head office is at Ludgate Circo*, London, E.G., are nominated as a suitable firm for the transmission of such communications. Kuril letters intended for transmission to enemy countries via neutral countries should be as brief as possible, should contain nothing lint personal matter, and .should, if possible, be written in English or German, preferably Gorman, to pass the censorship more speedily in the enemy country. "Any abuse of this privilege, such as giving information which might be of any assistance to the enemy, or writing lor 1" l.iHnr" will result, ill the lettcrs being stopped. It should be dis-. t'lietly understood that this privilege extends only to communication with British subjects detained or resident in an enemy country. Correspondence for prisoners of war interned in an enemy country will continue to be passed through the chief censor in London and the Prisoners of War Information Bureau in Berlin as before. "Payments of money to British subjects who are detained in an enemy ■country and unable to return to Ilia Majesty's Dominions do not constitute an infringement of the Trading with the Em my Proclamation, but it may tie necessary to forward such remittances through Messrs Cook and Ron, or one of ith" principal banks."