SOLDIERS' WIVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 309, 30 December 1940, Page 6

SOLDIERS' WIVES.

Perhaps the real Fifth Columnist* are some of those who do not mean to toe, but who are creating unrest about our boys. One soldier's wife wrote recently to say that the hoys in Egypt said they had no fresh vegetables, etc. Well, in a mail received recently from my brother, who is '"somewhere in the desert," he stated that they had just finished a breakfast of fried tomatoes and bacon, cooked l>y the sergeant. Does this sound as if they don't get enough vegetables to eat ? -Then there are these soldiers' wives who want some one to clean up their places for them. Well, I didn't think that there were people who covild :be so selfish. Women knew all these things would need doing when they let their men go. It was in their power to stop them then. Probably, quite unintentionally, they are making the rest of the soldiers' wives seem like winners and scroungers. Their husbands are over there doing their share. Surely those they loft behind them can <lo their share by each attending to their own jol» and not trying to make out that they are lieing badlv done by. I know what they are going through. 1 had to stand by and see ray husband po and also my brothers. So. pirls. please keep i your chins up. Our country will do its best for us. Ood grant it will all be over soon and wi> shall have our own j men back to do things for us. Remember [ that you aro lucky to have that quarter-acre to live on, as there are many who haven't even a roof to their heads. I STILL ANOTHER SOLDIER'S WIFE.