PRISONERS OF JAPS.
LETTERS FROM DOMINION NO KNOWN RESTRICTION (P.A.) WELLINGTON,' this day. "Last week I announced that the Japanese had announced a postal service for prisoners of war in Thailand, Malaya, the Philippines, Java and Borneo," said the Post-master-General, Mr. Webb, to-day, and in connection with that announcement I said that certain limitations had been placed by the Japanese on the number of letters that prisoners of war could receive. I have now been informed that the restriction mentioned, namely that no more than six letters a year could be sent for an officer, four for an N.C.O. and-three for other ranks and civilian internees, applies . not to letters sent to a prisoner of war in Japanese hands but to letters that may be sent by the prisoner. There is no known restriction on the number of letters a prisoner of war may receive, but it is. suggested that letters should not be sent to them more frequently than once weekly.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 35, 11 February 1943, Page 6
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