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Show NO NEWS FROM THE SOLDIER MEANS HE IS ALL RIGHT ALTHOUGH the failure to receive letters from men in the service is not pleasing to relatives and friends at home the adage "no news is good news" never was more true than at present. The report of every casualty at home or abroad is immediately wired or cabled to officials at Washington, being relayed re-layed from there without loss of time to the emergency address of the soldier or sailor affected. It is also at once released re-leased for publication in the newspapers. newspa-pers. No news of casualties has or will be held up. No man in the service has received orders not to write home ; he has been urged, on the contrary, to keep in touch with relatives and friends. The forces in France have at their disposal post cards giving general information in regard re-gard to health and the receipt of letters and parcels, which may be dispatched without payment of postage. Care is also taken to see that mail intended in-tended for soldiers and sailors reaches them promptly. Where the regimental and company designation of a. soldier is not known it may be secured by application ap-plication to The Adjutant General's Office, Of-fice, Washington, D. C. In one week 1,674 letters with insufficient addresses were received at this office. On 1,232 the addresses were completed and they were forwarded, 123 were returned to senders, 58 went to the dead-letter office of-fice because senders' addresses were not given, and the balance were held with the view that the addresses might be completed later. |
