GOOD ACTRESSES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 247, 12 July 1919, Page 6

GOOD ACTRESSES

TUB PUZZLING FIiAULEIN. '•'here arc quite a number of returned soldiers in New Zealand who bad an experience of garrison lite in Cologne, Mulbcim, ami other Rhine towns, who bear glowing testimony to the amiability of the German women.

"When we first got into Cologne," said one young commissioned officer to a Dominion reporter, "the Germans, ivelldressed and decently groomed, simply did not see us at all. They looked right,-th rough us, as if we weren't there at all, or else gave a haughty stare, as though resenting our intrusion on the sacred soil of the fatherland. But the women were all the other way. Indeed, it seemed to me that they 'were too sweet altogether—as though, somehow or other, they had been instructed to treat us decently. Even now I can't toll if they wore acting or not, and I know that a lot of the boys simply swear by the German girls because of the way thev wore treated during the occupation. I don't know whether it is known, but several New Zealanders married German girls in Cologne. How they are going to bring tbem out here, or whether they will over bo allowed to do so I don't know, but the marriages wero the real thing all right. At the railway station there were crowds of weeping German girls as each section of the New Zealanders left for Blighty. If they wero not genuine, I take off my hat to thcin as actresses!

"Yet (lest we. forget) was it not the women of Cologne, who, when the lirilish prisoners of war were filthy, starving, and almost mad with thirst, brought glasses brimming with water to the sides o: tin' railway trucks, and after tantalising the poor fellows by holding the classes just a few inches beyond their reach, dashed the water on tho door Of the platform, rather than give l.hcm a drop to case the awful aching of their parched throats-awl gloried in the torture so indicted? Truly, Fraulcin is a Mod actress!"