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AUSTRALIANS IN LONDON. PUBLICITY MEANS EMBARRASSMENT. English Girls Who Seek Romance. Press Association —Copyright. Received 11 a.m. London, April 1. The bounteous publicity given the Australian soldiers who have arrived to take part in the Coronation ceremonies is proving embarrassing. One newspaper printed a story that many were hoping to take back nice English wives, and published photographs <|f Major Ruddock and Colonel Donald. As a result, these two men.have received dozens of letters from girls, seeking romance. Major Ruddock told the Australian Associated Press that he was frightened to go to the mailbox now. There were at least 25 letters daily-from blondes, brunettes and others, some proposing marriage and others writing romantically about “the wide open spaces.” One asked Major Ruddock to bring half a dozen Aussies to her town to meet her girl friends .
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 397, 2 April 1937, Page 5
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138CORONATION CONTINGENTS Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 397, 2 April 1937, Page 5
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