SLUMP IN YOUNG MEN.
MAGISTRATE OX A WAR SHORTAGE. There was an amusing incident at West London Police Court recently, when Millie Vince, residing at Heath-fields-place, Fulham, was summoned for assaulting Elizabeth Barton, living at Burnthwaite-road. Prosecutrix stated that as she was coming out of a place of entertainment she spoke to a young man, and defendant then became jealous and struck her in the mouth. In binding both the prosecutrix and defendant over to keep the peace, the magistrate remarked : “So many young men have gone away to the war that young men are getting scarce.’ - (Laugh - ter.)
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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4627, 14 May 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)
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99SLUMP IN YOUNG MEN. Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4627, 14 May 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)
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