WHITHER DO THEY GO?

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1940, Page 5

WHITHER DO THEY GO?

Kvery year some 2"i r ool> men and women disappear from their homes in (.'real Britain. London alone accounts for about J-2HO case-. The total is almost equallv divided between the

sexes. Most of tlie women who disappear are young and unmarried. Appar- ' ently, they usually wi>h to escape from parental control.of revenge themselves for lovers.' quarrels. Very few married women disappear, although sometimes the mother of a large family will leave her husband to look after five or six children. , With men a much larger proportion are married and arc fathers. About 'JO per cent have their fling, and are soon discovered or return of their own free will. But about 100 or so completely vanish every year, and arc never seen again. A tile of missing persons was started at Scotland Yard about ten years ago. and contains the. names of about 2000 men and women who have never been traced. What has become of them?—" News Chronicle."