MODERN DELILAHS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 167, 14 July 1916, Page 2

MODERN DELILAHS.

HOW SOLDIERS ARE ROBBED. In a case of alleged bigamy before a Court. in Adelaide, the judge remarked that, there, was too much of women marrying simply for the sake of drawing the pay of absent soldiers." His Honor's .renaTk comes amid a good deal printed in the newspapers about the need for warning bur recruits, especially those from-the country, against the wiles and snares of modern Delilabe who rob strong men not of their hair but of their .. money.. There appears to be good reason . to believe that there is an extensive en- , snaring of susceptible young eoldiers by clever and not unattractive women, who, by pretences of",swearing lore and devotion, attain their sole purpose—the ; assignment to them of a portion of the ; spldiere' pay. In most of such cases the : beguiled young warrior is led to believe that the money so assigned and drawn ] during hie rcbscneo is being devoted to , tho building up. of a cosy little home for : the tiiiie of his return and marriage." It : i» said that there arc women who are drawing part of the pay of four or five gtmo-awiiy soldiers, all of .whom have been promUed marriago fine | > ... I