WIVES ON THE RHINE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11931, 29 October 1919, Page 7

WIVES ON THE RHINE.

ANGLO-GERMAN MARRIAGES. Just back from the Rhino, a Leeds soldier makes a remarkable statement on the ■way In which British soldiers have been fraternising with German girls. He declares that in Cologne Cathedral he saw 33 British soldiers married to German women. The cathedral was full of people, and a German to whom he expressed surprise told him it was quite a common thing to see British service men marrying German girls. The soldier went on to say: “One man who came home with me told the colonel that he would forfeit his gratuity and all his pay if they would allow him to remain in Cologne to marry a German girl. The colonel said he cbuld not do that, but explained that when her had been demobilised at home he could get a passport and go back to Rhineland, That man is returning to Germany. When I informed him what I thought about it, he remarked that he bad taken a fancy to a girl with plenty of money, and as he had no ties in England he might as well marry her. Any night in Cologne you car. see our men with their arms round German girls, and young officers seem as keen as the men. Dozens of them are at the nances. ”