BAN ON CABLES
INQUIRIES AS TO CASUALTIES IN MIDDLE EAST. STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF DEFENCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “Numerous private requests for information regarding casualties are still being received in the Middle East both by the headquarters of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force and also by individual soldiers,” said the Minister of Defence (Mr Jones) today, “despite a previous intimation that these could not be answered and were posted back to Base Records, Wellington. The Government therefore has decided that in future Post Offices are not to 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 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, but he explained that in case of inquiries regarding a soldier other than the recipient of the inquiry, the censorship regulations prevented a reply being sent other than the statement that the soldier concerned was “safe and well.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 2
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162BAN ON CABLES Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 2
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