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TWO LONELY SOLDIERS.

5000 LETTERS EACH. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. i Melbourne, Jan. 4. Senator Pearce, Minister for Defence, slated to-day that as the result of the" insertion in the Australian press of advertisements h$- "lonely soldiers," inviting correspondence from residents in Australia, several bags of letters, papers, and parcels were received bv members of the Australian Imperial Force, two advertisements alone resulting in the arrival of sorru' 10,000 letters-for two men. The Minister further stated that the practice of inserting advertisements in the press inviting correspondence of strangers in strictly forbidden by cen<orphir> regulations', and is an abuse of the facilities granted. It also causes c,ingestion in the post, office, to the detriment, end delay of ordinary correspondence, io say nothing of the additional work thrown on the base censors. In future, advertisements in the press by "lonely soldiers" will ho prohibited, •md correspondence under the same class stopped.

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Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1918, Page 7

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TWO LONELY SOLDIERS. Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1918, Page 7

TWO LONELY SOLDIERS. Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1918, Page 7

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