'I'll* department has ???-. ? ?>:- to ..tibial
11? i? ordh 11 anstnr 11I>> the Prussian
Minister of War to the llo|\ s> ? at
I.ilea no, Switzerland, and has offices at
Pans, Constantinople. V ? una. Frei
burg. Mruss'-ls and Padeb'.rn. West
phalia. '?<rmany, with s-v-tal minor
branches in other rountrli s
Thi- di pa rt in-nt li.i In-' on.i on. of
th' niOBt highly organized <-f an> in
th<- Vatican. it writ's several linn
df'-d I'-tt'is a da>. atid to <i,-|t. sii-h
letters liHve run up to a total of mot
than A the d-partm-iit i<
turns all mone> inclosed in letter;- of
npp?-al and as a person writing from
Kngland cannot well un lose Italian
stamps for International >orrespon
? b nee. thi- stamp hill ah-ri' of the d> -
p.irtni'-nl has !>? -??n upward of 5 0??.
s\>ii:s ahi: i'ostkii is
>111.it \ II* pit i?.o\ < \ >1 I'M
After ma kmc an oili.-ial demand on
tin- u' iV' rnini-ni of th. < ountry wh?-r?
lh" lost soldier i< supposed to he, th
d< partm' nt eau.o - -a h n-w iiimif to ho
pofltfd up in th- military prison ? umps.
b\ th* aid of a '"aiholi. idiaplam al
ways pr-s'-nt. in th- lope that .inim
"f th- lost soldi-r's i.omrad'-s inaj . ? ??
tin- nam- and ofti-r Mini" ?? 1 ti ? that will
l-nd to his location S? v-ral thousands
of sui h litts h is - h?" ii print-d 'i'h-r.
