GERMAN WAR BRIDES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3778, 2 May 1919, Page 4

GERMAN WAR BRIDES.

LOVE'S UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.

A "ood deal of correspondence has latterly appeared in the papers regarding British war brides of New Zealand soldiers, but there are yet to arrive in the Dominion some German women who have been married by our soldiers. , In a lotter to hand from Bernsberg, Germany, a New Zealand soldier writes: "I saw in the paper the other day the announcement of a wedding between a New Zealand soldier and a German young lady. They must evidently understood each other in tho universal language," he adds.. "What kind of a reception he thinks his wife is going to get when he brings her back to New Zealand is moro than I can say; yet his is not an isolated case, as there are quite a number of others in the same boat, the husbands boing New Zefllandors, Canadians and British. How'thoy will treat these women under tho new alien laws is another question. - • They will look prottv if they arc not allowed to take the little maidens home with them. As I saw a Digger strolling along the street beside a frauloin. a German friend pinched my arm and said in bis quaint, slow way: " The language of love is universal."