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Show I Should Use Care ; In Writing Boys I The life of your son, brother or ! husband may depend on secrecy, Colonel Hubert V. Hopkins, army-air army-air base commander, said last week, in explaining war department depart-ment restrictions for safeguarding military information. "Don't talk" is a warning applicable alike to soldiers and civilians, Colonel Hopkins said. The station and location of a soldier outside the United States is a military secret upon which the lives of men and the success of war effort may depend, the air base commander warned. Your letters written to, men in the service ser-vice may fall into enemy hands, ' he said, and should not contain information in-formation of value to the enemy. He urged that letters be written often to soldiers, providing them with information about family and friends, but not subjects of military mili-tary importance. Colonel Hopkins announced the following suggestions of the war department with reference to cor respondence: Get the correct mailing address from the soldier, including his serial number, organization desig. nation, the army post office number, num-ber, and the city through which mail addressed to him is to be handled. If this information is not available, after the soldier has left the country, then you may inquire of the Adjutant General, War Department, Washington, D. C, for the correct mailing address. ad-dress. Only the army post office address will be furnished not the foreign station of the soldier. Avoid unnecessary writing to the war department. Here are some precautions to be observed: 1. Include your return address on upper left -hand corner of envelope, en-velope, and allow plenty of white space on envelope for forwarding data by postmaster. 2. Write on one side of page. Wden letters are censored, the material is actually cut out with a pair of scissors, thereby destroying destroy-ing unnecessarily harmless material ma-terial on the reverse side. 3. Always write in plain, visible text, preferably english; never in secret writing of any type. 4. Never include in your letters information concerning training, troops, movements, or production of military equipment or mention of any specific employment of that equipment. If your son includes that information within his letter, keep the data confidential. 5. Don't discuss security .measures .mea-sures taken to protect plants, local utilities, or transportation facilities. facili-ties. 6. Never include any information informa-tion about the weather. 7. Don't discuss adverse condi. tions which affect your farm or occupation. and has vastly increased the busi. (Continued on last page) Use Care In Writing iCor.'.niued Irom first page) I' :i't ir.L-lu.il- cri;;cism of iht? c-mduct nf the war. Your views n;ay nut be based on facts. hen sending pictures, make ci Main that no information of a military natuje is included in the scene. 10. Remember the purpose of vnso!-'niii is not to place hardship on correspondents, but instead, it is to collect information from mail coming from foreign countries while at the- same time preventing important information from reach-in;- tl'.e enemy. "Don't be .discouraged by long delays in receiving mail", Colonel Hopkins said. "This is a worldwide world-wide war. And, remember, the war department considers your mail important enough to include a shipment of mail on every ship that leaves the country." v " |
