HOW TO WRITE HOME
Spare the Censor An o the r Headache - • . Use ”Di t-Dah? s” Service
Always eager to serve, ”DitDah” to-day lends a hand to those fellows who don’t know just how to write home and dodge the censor at the same time. All you have to do is take the Multiple Troopship Correspondence Blank (Series l) set out below and put a line through whatever words or statements don’t apply. Then simply send your ’DitDah ,f home ! (Be careful about using the words marked "X" if you think you will be criticising the Army.) Dear Mum/Dad/Toots/Mr Savage/ I am: Somewhere at sea/At a port not 20,000 miles from Alaska/ In "my «ab ; in “(impossible for most of you, so we crossed it out ourselves. I am: Well/Not so weU/a box of birds/a box of dead birds. I'm getting enough/too much/too little (X); Food/beer/of the .army/ work/sleep/of the sea. — In fact, I love/hate/just tolerate (X) the life, and I'd like nothing better(X)/worse than to come home. Incidentally, I'm hoping to be home this year/next year/some time/never, but don’t tell the ■ Income Tax Department anything. I wish I could get my hands on: The wheel of this ship/The neck of a.dolf Hitler/The edge of a bar. Hoping this finds you the same, Goodbye,
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/WWDIT19400116.2.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dit-Dah, Volume 2, Issue 3, 16 January 1940, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
214HOW TO WRITE HOME Dit-Dah, Volume 2, Issue 3, 16 January 1940, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in