DESTINED FOR UTAH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1931, 25 January 1919, Page 3

DESTINED FOR UTAH.

FATE OF .12,000 ENGLISH GIRLS. ALAR AUNG AIOKAION CAMPAIGN. -Of the many post-war problems which the British Government is faced with, one of Die most perplexing is apparently the exact line of action to lake with regard to the preponderance of women in England'- population. The cables have told as sufficient to indicate Dial the matter is fraught with grave issues, and from information which has just come to hand from private sources a most alarming phase ot Die situation has'recently developed. Mormonism, hy dint of an insidious campaign, is rising its hy-dra-head in the community. “I xvas horrified,” write.- Chap-lain-Captain Winton (at one lime of Palmerston North), to the Alayor (Mr J. A. Nash, ALP.), under date November 14th las!, “to see that) 12,009 British girls were to he shipped to L'tah as soon as the war is over, for the Munition business, and that such literature as this is being widely spread in England at the present: ‘lf any man take a wife, and desire to take another, and the first give her consent, then he is justified and does not commit adultery.” The padre further commented that the Aformon propagandists had the enormous sum of £80.00(1,000 at their hacks so as to be able to push their cause. “They have,” he writes, “even been working under tho guise of the Red Cross.” — Standard.