SOLDIERS' WIVES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 20, 18 December 1916, Page 7

SOLDIERS' WIVES

AMUSING CLAIMS FJR SEPARATION ALLOWANCES. London, November 6. The difficulties which the military authorities have in appreciating the relative merits of individual claims lor Army separation allowances were narrated on Saturday at the Mansion House, when the Lord Mayor, presiding at a luncheon given to officers of the Territorial Association, quoted a number of letters which he said wentypes of those frequently received on behalf of applicants claiming separation allowances. One applicant wrote. “Dear Sir, —In accordance with Instructions on the ring paper I have given birth to a daughter.” Other letters received ran: “Dear Sir, —You have changed my little boy into a little girl. Will it make any difference?” “Dear sir, —My husband, Bill, has been put in charge of a spittoon, Shan 1 get any more pay?” “Sir, —Will you please send mo my money as soon as possible, as I am walking about Bolton like a damned pauper?” “Sir, —Mr husband has joined the Army. I shall bo glad if you will send me his elopement money.”