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Show CENSORSHIP OF LETTffiSTRICT Men Forbidden to Correspond With Strangers and Rule Being Strictly Enforced. MAILS CONGESTED Scheme of Some Women and Girls Disapproved at U. S. Headquarters. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Monday. Dec. 24. (By the Associated Press.) The American ex-1 peditionary force wishes to discourage ! tho budding practice of American women in "adopting" Individual sol-1 me i o in x-1 nuur iwi nit jjfrioa oi ine u war. The practice, already threatens : to choke the congestod mall service' and result In the transportation of, important matter. Moreover, the cen-1 sorship regulation forbid the" men to1 correspond with strangers and as this ' rulo is being enforced rigidly it is de-; sired that people at home refrain fromi I putting the men here in an ombar-1 I rassing position as they feel com- ,' pelleed, under the circumstances, to jj answer some correspondence. ' As an example of the interest worn- en are taking in "adoptions" Is an advertisement ad-vertisement reaching headquarters showing the picture of a pretty girl and urging soldiers without godmothers god-mothers to write to a given address. nn i |