LOVE-SICK GIRLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 October 1916, Page 6

LOVE-SICK GIRLS.

ii.N*D THE COY AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER.- "& LETTER OF PROTEST. in a cablegram recently appearing in an Australian paper, and republished bore, it was stated that an Australian soldier now in London had stated that he had had no fewer than thiny-three proposals of marriage from English S ; rk. "Three English Girls," writing to ti;e Auckland Star recently, made tile following remarks in reference to the statement:— ] "Having recently left London, we feel it incumbent upon Us to say that, \ in our bumble opinion, this is a gross! exaggeration and a most uncalled-for assertion. For a man to accept the hospitality of the Mother Country, to bo honored and cared for by people at Home, and then to make the above assertion (even if it were true), is the height of bad breeding and not the act of a gentleman. Our girls at Home have far too much to occupy them, in the shape of munition and other work, than to run after soldiers and .propose to them, and if the Australian soldier has had the experience stated above, then we would ask how be came to know the class of girl he has evidently become familiar with, as no decent English girl has the least desire to go careering round after strange men. We all honor our colonial soldiers, but owing to the fact that a certain amount of freemasonry is allowed, surely it ia unfair to disparage our girls because a very small percentage lose their heads. Is it only English girls who have thia failing? We think not." Tlie London correspondent of tne Sydney Sun is responsible for the following account of Anzac marriage:—A Commonwealth official says that numerous Australian soldiers are marrying in England their Australian fiancees, who are arriving by every steamer. Many Australian ■ soidiers are also marrying English girls, and the wounded, in several instances, are marrying their nurses. The authorities are offering every facility for the sending of the wives of soldiers to Australia at cheap fares. There have been niany hasty marriages through the girls proposing to undertake all the arrangements. The Australian soldiers are bored at the hero-worship. Thirtythree girls proposed to one wounded trooper, who escaped on his declaring that he was married, and the father of a large family.