MARRIAGES Of CHIVALRY.
TAXING PITY ON RUSSIANS. LONDON, October 14. An Englishman who has just arrived from North Russia, describing scenes at I the final withdrawal, says that the I British evacuated many persons compromised by our occupation. : The most pathetic cases were those |of unmarried women, of perhaps not untarnished reputation, who greatly i dreaded the perils following the departure of the British. •| The informant continued: "One of i the things to be counted to the eternal I honour of our forces was the number jof indisputable cases of marriage for motives of purest chivalry by British , j and Allied soldiers with ' these lonely J and unfortunate beings."
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 265, 7 November 1919, Page 5
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109MARRIAGES Of CHIVALRY. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 265, 7 November 1919, Page 5
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