The Mails Go Through To Troops In Greece

Northern Advocate, 23 May 1941, Page 2

The Mails Go Through To Troops In Greece

[Per Press Association.—Copyright] WELLINGTON. This Day

“An interesting sidelight on the organisation underlying the movement of large bodies of troops on active service is given in a recent report received by the Post and Telegraph Department from the New Zealand base post office in the Middle East,” said the Postmaster-General (the Hon. P. C. Webb) today. /

As soon as it was known that New Zealand tpoops were proceeding to Greece, steps were taken to provide postal facilities there for the men. Units of the base post office were sent to Greece, and a field post office was established at Athens. A Fast Service.

“A mail van with a military officer in attendance, on the passenger express from Piraeus, provided a fast cervice to the railheads of the British and Imperial forces located in the eastern sector of Greece. From the railheads mails were distributed by the divisional postal units with the New Zealand brigade, deliveries being made to men by .postal orderlies. It is understood that .the bulk of the mails were despatched between Egypt and Greece by air, and it is known that all mails sent to Greece up to March 31 were delivered to the troops. There may, however, have been small losses of mails after that date.”