Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-07 | Page 29 | Many Letters Going Astray

W. LETTERS 'EniysiMf Incorrect Addresses to the American Soldiers in Siberia Is Cause. ! VLADIVOSTOK, Sept. 6. (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) Hundreds of letters intended in-tended for American soldiers in Siberia have gone astray because of incorrect addresses, ad-dresses, according to S. A. Cisler, United States postal agent in Siberia, who was sent here with the American expeditionary expedition-ary forces to look after the mail for the doughboy. Many letters intended for Siberia Si-beria were sent to Archangel when American Amer-ican troops were there, and many letters intended for Archangel were sent to Vladivostok. The correct address for letters to Siberia Si-beria is: Name, unit. A. E. F Siberia, via San Francisco. Writing the unit to which the soldier belongs in the address saves at least twenty-four hours in delivery de-livery of mail upon reaching the A. E. F. base in Siberia. Mail addressed to units is delivered from the ship at AHadivostok without being redistributed at the main United Slates postoffice here. All the big transpacific liners are used for carrying mail to Japan and thence to Siberia, and some ships make the trip direct from Vladivostok to America. Two boats leave Vladivostok each week for Japan, connecting with the mail liners for America. "The soldiers in Siberia are a I long way from home, and every letter from America makes the stay here that much easier," says the .United States postal agent, who urges that more letters be written. Three American post off ices have been established In Siberia at American troop centers. Onee is at Shkotova, thirty miljs northeast of Vladivostok; another is at Spasskoe, ISO miles north, and the third Is at Verkhue Ndtnsk. 1701 miles northwest north-west of Vladivostok. Thesn postofflccs 1 are for use of the A. E. r. the American -lied Cross, the V. M. C. A. and the Pais- j sian railway service corps. American civilians in Siberia obtain I their mall through the Russian postoffice. j