RETURNING SOLDIERS

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13750, 25 April 1918, Page 5

RETURNING SOLDIERS

DANGER FROM ENEMY RAIDERS. NOTIFICATION OF ARRIVAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, Thursday. Owing to the danger from possible enemy raiders in these seas the British Admiralty has issued definite instructions that on no account must any ship use its wireless for the purpose of intimating the probable date of arrival even when within 24 hours of the port of disembarkation. This will mean that no notification of the time of the arrival of troopships will be received except the estimated date which will bo cabled from the hist port of call. Such notification would make it impossible to give any reliable information to the pu' lie, consequently the Government has reluctantly had to issue instructions that the present concessions in issuing free railway passes to next-of-kin will be discontinued from this date. The Pefence Department will upon the receipt of the cabled advice of a soldier's return notify the but no definite date can be r'ated. Upon the arrival of the shin i.x the first port of call a telegram will he immediately dispatched to the next-of-kin notifying the approximate time that the soldier should arrive at home, or if in-patient treatment is necessary at some specified hospital. Thg time of disembarkation will also be handed to the Press Association for general information.