PASSED BY CENSOR

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 124, 2 July 1941, Page 2

PASSED BY CENSOR

NINETEEN YEAR OLD GIRL'S ROMANCE ENGAGED TO PRISONER, OF WAR Nineteen year old Joan Pogson, pretty daughter of a wealthy Yorkshire yarn spinner, has bccome engaged to a prisoner of war in Germany—by permission of the British and Gorman censors. Her (censored) romancc has been carried on by post, and every one of her love letters bears, the official stamp on it. Her fiance is 20 years old Capt. William Tyas Lawton, only son of Capt. and Mirs Lawton, of Newmill, Yorkshire. Joan is the only daughter of Capt. and Mrs W. Cecil Pogson, of Hill Crest Slaithwaite. Thatw T o were childhood friends, fie took her photograph with him when he went to France as a secondlieutenant at the outbreak of war. He still has it at his Oflag. "Wc were just friends then," said Joan, "but the letters we've been allowed to send each other have shown, that we cared very much. "He asked if I'd marry him when he. comes home —he said he was sorry he couldn't help choose tho engagement ring. "Now. he's got an answer —Yes. And I've bought the ring and writing to tell him all about it and just what it is like and liow proud I am to wear it." "Roth tine British and German censors have bee<n kind in not outting out of our lettcrsi any of the little bits that are rather important to engaged people. "He tells me he's attending education classes in the camp, and he and other prisoners have organised a dance band and a dramatic society." Joan is doing A.R.P. work. Her father is a member of Pogson and Co., yarn spinners. Captain Lawton's father is a woollen manufacturer.