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Dated:

Mail for Prisoners of War in Germany

Letters (letters should be left open), post cards and postal parcels should be addressed as follows-

1. Rank, initials, name.
2. Regiment, or other unit.
3. British (or Canadian, French, Belgian, or Russian) prisoner of war.
4. Place of internment.
5. Germany.

Place of internment should be stated always if possible, and parcels cannot be accepted unless place of internment is stated. All addresses must be in ink.

Communications must be limited to private and family news and to necessary business communications, and should not be sent too frequently.

No reference to the naval, military, or political situation, or to naval or military movements and organizations are allowed. Letters or postcards containing such references will not be delivered.

Friends of prisoners of war are advised to send postcards in preference to letters, as postcards are less likely to be delayed. If letters are sent, they should not exceed in length two sides of a sheet of note paper and should contain nothing but the sheet of note paper. On no account should the writing be crossed.

Letters cannot for the present be accepted for registration.

No letters should be enclosed in parcels and newspapers must not on any account be sent. So far as known there is no restriction on the contents of the parcels; tobacco may be sent and will be admitted duty free but food stuffs of a perishable character should not be sent. Parcels should not exceed 11 lbs. in weight.

Remittances can be made by money order to prisoners of war. Instructions as to how to proceed can be obtained from Postmasters of Accounting Post Offices. The transmission of coin, either in letters or parcels, is expressly prohibited. Postal Notes and Bank Notes should not be sent.

It must be understood that no guarantee of the delivery of letters or parcels can be given and that the Post Office accepts no responsibility. In any case, considerable delay may take place, and failure to receive an acknowledgement should not necessarily be taken as an indication that letters and parcels sent have not been delivered.

So far as known, prisoners of war in Germany are allowed to write letters or post cards from time to time, but they might not always have the facilities for doing so, and the fact that no communication is received from them need not give rise to anxiety.