CORRESPONDENCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 14 (Supplement)

CORRESPONDENCE

The Literary Editor has received the following letter from Mr P. C. Wren, the author.

Dear Sir, —With reference to the paragraph in the Daily Telegraph of Friday, June 19, headed “Paris Day by Day”—“Woman In Foreign Legion” from Our Own Paris Correspondent, it may interest your readers to know that the “strong suspicion that a woman has succeeded in enlisting in the Foreign Legion, and has, so far, escaped detection,” may be well grounded. One woman certainly did succeed in enlisting in the Foreign Legion and did escape detection—and, at the moment. I an. editing her memoirs! She will, however, be the last woman to perform this feat if, as Our Own Paris Correspondent says, “According to the notice from the Legion headquarters at Sidi-bel-Abbes, a watch is to be kept on all soldiers of the Legion at a forthcoming bathing parade, when everyone will have to pass under a shower bath.”—Yours faithfully, P. C. WREN. 50 Albemarle Street, London W.1., June 26.