Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1914 — ARMY HAS ITS POST OFFICE [ARTICLE]

ARMY HAS ITS POST OFFICE

Flood of Mail Passed by Censor Now Being Received by Soldiers at Front. • London. —Thousands of letters and cards postmarked “Army Base Post Office” and bearing a circular mark in red, which means approved by censor, -are now being received daily. The promptness of the delivery is in striking contrast to the slow moving of commercial mail and a tribute to the completeness and efficiency of the British army equipment. Every command in the- battle line has its field post office tent containing collapsible sorting racks, folding table, letter box, mail bags and other necessary paraphernalia, with an attachment of the army post office corps in charge. The army post office corps is made up of the London post office employees enrolled in,the territorials or militia. In the Egyptian campaign of 1882 the corps first saw service, consisting then of 100 men and two officers. During the South African war the force was increased to 648 officers and men, of whom, several were killed In action, while 50 died of disease. Its record week at the time was the distributing of 313,416 letters and 19,019 parcels and the dispatching of 108,150 letters and packets.