Now It Can Be Repeated
THis happened three years ago. I was on my way to town in a tram full. of other housewives also going shopping. "The total number of girls in Wellington who have disappeared is thirteen," said one woman to another in the seat in front of me. "Just clean disappeared, not a trace of any sort. © The Marines take the bodies by launch outside the Heads where the big fish are and throw them overboard sliced up into tiny pieces. . . . Well; mind you, that’s what I was told by someone who ought to know. Maybe they got rid of them some other way. But it’s a certain fact that the number of girls missing is now up to thirteen." I was coming back from the same shopping trip. "It’s a shame the ‘way our men are treating these young Americans," one oldish lady was saying to another in the seat in front of me. "Such mere boys they are, lots of them. I saw one in town to-day-he couldn’t have been more than sixteen, sitting in the gutter, poor lad, dead drunk and terribly sick. Such nice homely boys, these Marines, as I’ve seen them. It’s ‘a shame the way our people egg them on,"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 333, 9 November 1945, Page 13
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211Now It Can Be Repeated New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 333, 9 November 1945, Page 13
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