Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — SOLDIERS' RELATIVES AND FRIENDS VICTIMS OF SWINDLE [ARTICLE]

SOLDIERS' RELATIVES AND FRIENDS VICTIMS OF SWINDLE

The following statement is authorized by the war department: Relatives and friends of several soldiers in army camps have been victimized by swindlers, who wired or wrote for funds under soldiers' names. In each instance it was requested that money be sent by wire waiving indentification, or bji mail to general deliveryy the customary explanation being that the soldier had been discharged and would have no way of securing indentification, nor of getting mail addressed to his The following is a typical telegram, sent to the father of a soldier in a southern camp: ‘‘Have been discharged. Coming home. Going to Atlanta through country tonight. Please wire me S6O at Atlanta so I may pay for uniform and come home direct. Waive identification, as I am not known m Atlanta. Wire cash quick, so I can get' it tomorrow morning.” 1 Before’ being complied with, any request for money to be sent under such conditions should be verified by a letter or telegram to the commanding officer of • the camp in which the man whose name is signed to the request is stationed.