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lonely soldier does not exist  in in England  here, & it is inconceivable that anyone of them shd write to the newspapers calling upon some sympathetic  girl  maiden to write to the lonely one enclosing photo etc. That "stunt" is quite unnecessary in England.

In London I had a conversation with one fair admirer of  the  our boys whose  was nearer to  age had overshot the sweet-seventeen-period very considerably. "My first 'usband", she said "died some time ago. Now I am married to a Tommy in Woolwich...... Oh why didn't I marry an Aussie boy! If I ever get another chance I will!!

Plainly the  women  fair sex  sex have gone crazy about  our boys  the manhood of Australia, & thousands of them entertain

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