Show t ar a r ORDER DELIVERY b i r DELAYS PROBED J t r American Trooper Taken I Prisoner as Result of of Mail l r i Washington Feb 9 Delay Dela Delay In des de- de 1 livering orders to forces in France was s re responsible for Daniel D D. D Galllgher Galligher an American an trooper being taken prisoner In the first German raid on American trenches Huddleston of or I ll trenches Representative Alabama toda today told the House committee com corn on expenditures in the tho postoffice post- post office department tRel Relatives of Galllgher Galligher who Is not et 19 had prevailed pre upon the war deI de- de de department I to grant his discharge OrI Orders Or Or- I ders ers to release him were sent Septem- Septem a iber ber 26 6 but did not arrive until Octo- Octo J 6 6 Galligher went to the trenches October 3 The Tte committee to today was considering consider consider- I ing lag in Representative Britten's resolution for investigation In of the mail snail censor- censor t r at New ew York Tork and delays delas In delivering doi do- do I i livering letters from home to the thet t f r f Gilbert E. E Hyatt president of ot th the National 1 Federation of Postal Empl Em Em- pl res told the tho committee that condl- condl 0 In the Chelsea terminal in New NewYork York from where here mall mail to American L It Is dispatched were deplorable R During the holidays he ho said parcel 21 t post packages were delayed so long longal al 11 that contents often became d decomposed om- om posed Representative e Rogers of ot Massachusetts Massachusetts who recently spoke In the tho House I on reports of or dela delay In malls to France 1 said Bald recent with the postoffice department convinced him that the tho authorities were doing all thc they could to relieve the situation Representative Britten said his chief information had come from James V. V Foster formerly member r of ot the censorship censorship censorship censor censor- ship committee at New York as a representative representative rep rep- of the committee on public information Britten said that Foster FOISter would testify that only 3 per cent of or ormall mall leaving lea th the Chelsea terminal was being censored because of ot inefficient handling and that he would give conI conclusive con con- elusive evidence that Important papers were stolen etolen from the office notwithstanding notwithstanding i standing official denials The papers Stolen tolen Britten said Foster told him I pre pre- presumably were documents from Mexico City pre pre- Q a part of ot German propaganda l I Foster did not arrive here hero today and andt t will 11 testify la later ter |