BROADCASTS FROM SOLDIERS

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23461, 16 October 1941, Page 8

BROADCASTS FROM SOLDIERS

; E Sir,—Seeing in your issue of Octo’Hi, er 9 a remark by Mr Shears at a if; Meeting of the executive of the South H anterbury branch of the Returaed oldiers’ Association on Wednesday IMvening as to whether our boys had 'i|i> pay for their broadcasts openfc up a ii ■ uestion I would like to ask. Why, 'flitter nearly two years away, cannot si ill the members of the Ist Echelon re allowed to speak to their people m ere? Surely it is not too much to ask. I 76 mothers have given our sons willllltgly and (who knows?) we may H ■ ever see them again. Let us all pray HI re do. My son tried to broadcast to Bae soon after his return from that i. ; jrrible time in Greece and Crete, but | uuld not get a chance to let me know If; ie was safe. It would have saved me » 1 ours, nay, weeks of anxiety, could I i! ave heard his voice, which I listened I I or every Sunday morning, or even to I! ave received the cablegram he sent I |o me would have helped. Hoping 11 omething can be done about pur sons i 1 roadcasting torus. I am not the only jH j aother who longs to hear the voice of I k “".-Yours, etc.. B e y A nt. P October 15, 1941.