Private Inquiry Cables To Middle East to be Refused
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: Requests for information | about casualties.
Wellington, Aug. 25.
j Numerous private requests for information regarding casualties are Still being, received in the Middle East, both by the headquarters of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. and by individual soldiers, said the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, to-day, despite the previous intimation that these could not be answered and were posted back to Base Records, Wellington. The Government has therefore decided that in future post offices will nol be permitted to accept such cables for transmission. Mr. Jones added that the Government ivas 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 regarding a Boldier other than the recipient of the inquiry censorship regulations prevented a reply from being sent other than a etatement that the soldier concerned was ''safe and well."
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1942, Page 4
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