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Show WAR PRISONERS WILL HAVE A POSTOFFICE Change Is Made in Manner of Handling Mail fo.: Men Interned at Post. A post off ice and postal system for handling the mail, packages and like supplies sup-plies of the Germans interned in the Third war prison camp at Fort Douglas were established yesterday in the compound com-pound under direction of Colonel Georsre By ram, commandant, and Caj.1aiu Emery S. West, adjutant, of the war prison company. One large room of an unused barracks building was selected by Captain West, who is originator of the novel poetaj system sys-tem for the prison camp, and wt aside to be used exclusively as a prison pnst-effice. pnst-effice. An officer of the ships' crews will te designated as postmaster and he will have general charge and supervision over the operation of the pos toff ire. Ha will be agisted by other officers, who will act as assistant postmasters to han 1le mai parcelB and other supplies that will b handled through the prison post-oi'tice. post-oi'tice. Under the new postal system It will all he sorted and distributed just as it is from the postoffice in Kalt Lake to tho people of Salt lAke. Outgoing mail from the ca mp will be handled in a similar manner. It will be gathered from the various barracks by the mail orderlies. order-lies. assembJed in the prison postoffice and then transmitted to the prison censor for examination before being sent forward. for-ward. The plan, when suggested to the German Ger-man officers and men by Captain West, met with their hearty approval and tb.iv efigcrly volunteered to handle the work of the prison postoffice. |