GIRL FROM SERBIA
A SHATTERED ROMANCE HER FOUR YEARS’ WORK. Miss Todora Kostitoh, the Serbian girl who journeyed 1500 miles to marry an English soldier lover she had met in the Balkans, sailed from England recently for Serbia “All rovoir,” she said on the landing-stage. “I may come to England, but not to marry.” Miss Kostitch’s romantio quest of her lover ended in disappointment five years ago. She noticed, when she found him in Leicester, that his love for her had cooled. She could not return home because all her savings had been spent on the journey to England. People who bad heard her sad story found her employment as a dressmaker.
A question was asked in Parliament scon after whether she should be allowed to remain in this country, Mr S'hortt, the then Home Secretary, said: "She was given leave to land on condition that she married within one month.
“When the month expired without her marrying, her right to remain in England ceased, but on the evidence that she had obtained work and was maintaining herself, it was decided not to on force her obligation to leave the country.” ft took Miss Kostiteh four years to save sufficient money to enable lior to return homo to her mother. She is rot yet 22.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11652, 17 October 1923, Page 7
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