The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-14
Weight Not to Exceed Eleven Pounds
and Only One Package Per Month
Free of Postal Duties When
Intended for International
Mail

The War Department authorizes
the following statement:
For the information of friends OF
American soldiers who are prisoners
of war the War Department has pre-
pared the following circular relative
to the possibility of communication
with them:
Prisoners of war are entitled to re-
ceive and send letters, money orders
and valuables, as well as parcels by
post mot exceeding II pounds in
weight, when intended for interna-
tional mail, free from all postal du-
ties.
Domestic Mail and Money Orders
Domestic mail and money orders
arc subject to the regular postage
charges and money order fees, re-
spectively, as no provision is made
for the free transmission in the do
nestle mails of the United States OF
mail matter by prisoner of war in
this ciuntry to person residing
therein nor for the mailing by per,
son in this country Of matter ad-
dressed to a prisoner of war who is
detained in the United States.
All mail should be plainly ad-
dressed to a prisoner of war who is
detained in the United States.
All mail should be plainly addressed
to the prisoner of war, giving his
rank, full name, and the name of the
prison camp where held Gf known
followed by Prisoner of War Mail,
via New York Mail intended for
prisoners of war of enemy countries
interned in the United States should
be addressed to them by name, fol
lowed by the destination of the war
prison barracks where interned.
Name and Address of Sender
In addition, all prisoner-of-war mail
should bear the name and address
OF the sender written in the upper
left hand corner, and in the case Of
parcel-post packages the relationship
Of the sender to the prisoner of war
addressed should be clearly stated,
Immediately following the sender's
name. Parcel post packages for pris-
oners in enemy countries may not be
sent by organizations or societies,
and only one such package per month
may be sent to any one prisoner OF
war, the limit of weight for each
package being II pounds. If more
are received the one apparently from
the prisoners next of kin will be for
warded and the others held in New
York pending communication with
the sender, with whose consent such
excess packages may be forwarded
to some other prisoner of war who
in that PARTICULAR month, has re
,ceived no package from any source
If such consent be not given the pack
ages will be returned to the sender
List of Permissible Articles.
Only the following articles may be
in packages sent to prisoners of war.
Belts (not made of leather), brushes
chair, hand, tooth, shaving and shoe)
buttons, candy (hard) cigars, ciga
rettes, comb, crackers or biscuits
gloves (not made of leather, hand
kerchiefs, knife (pockeD, needles and
thread, pencils, pens, penholders
pins, pipes, safety razors and blades
shaving soap, powder or cream scarf
shirts, shoe laces (not made of leath
erg smoking or chewing tobacco
soap (toilet), socks, sweaters, tooth
powder( paste or liquid mouth wash)
towels, underwear, personal photo
graphs, periodicals published prior to
the beginning of the war.
Subject to Censorship
Letters and parcels received for, OF
dispatched by, prisoners of war will
be subject to careful censorship
No communication will be permitted
to contain any statement allusion, OF
suggestion of nature to be of assist
ance to an enemy or ally of an enc
my nor shall any statement therein
contained relate to any commercial
transactions. Mail articles for pris
oners of war shall not be registered
All of these provisions apply to
prisoners of war of any nationality
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