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Show HERE'S WORST YE YANKEE GIRLS WED ABR0AD I All of Which Show Othei : Side of Overteai Mar- I riage Problem. By Newspsprf Enterprise Association. FX I'APO. Tr Dec. 13 - Amrnni boys. bwnr'! Is ynwr xrt In Km nr I she A Red mir? fr a tH tffn hc dr e a motrtrurk or nr . Smnu Verve T If eon, look to your laurels, foi fha chancn ure good tht "me hand-t"n hand-t"n French or FiHijsu. officer wll pluck that peach from 'he garden Pi American love end th.-re will te boy buck tn the, old V. S. A mho feels himself slipping. ff you donf believe It, ask Lieuten-ant Lieuten-ant .Leon Tl. Ourley. enxtner corne. invalided in-valided home from France, after i r attack In Flandera. Ueutenani fiurley, who la 24 years old. spent etghl months In FYanoe aa a member of General Gen-eral Franklin Bella ataff. Lieutenant Gurley aaya there are ai many American girls marrying Britishers Brit-ishers and Frenchmen aa tr,re ar American boy marrvlng French an British gtrla. In neither case la lh mashse a t aannali in rmi any nl llonal worry, hut thou riiropen l fall for thoee red cheeked, merrv girlr af Yankeeland, and It. many ruw th airls fail Just aa hard for the gallant fighting men acmaa the water. THOUSANDS OF rPEACHES.- Thera ara tena of thousand ol ftmr1nn n'r'r h g-- -.rVnc )r, various capacities, and all of them arc parfect phvelcally they have to he, oi they would not ha allowed to remain. What wonder that the warworn hcroe of Franca and Britain, coming out ot a hard tour In the trenches, are stricken with the charming, healthy American maids? Btit for the etrinrent reMrlc-tlone reMrlc-tlone which re Impoaed on all marriages mar-riages In France, there probably would b more msrriage between American girls and officers fo the allied armies. Nurses of the American Red One ara not allowed, by rcgiitatlone, to marry, but marrlnge do occur v-caalonally. v-caalonally. In eplte of the difficulty In keeping; auch thing ejulet In France. But there are no auch restrictions on girl telephone operators or ambulance or motortmclt driver. "It's hard for anybody to get married mar-ried In France." said Lieutenant Our-Jey. Our-Jey. "I helped a British friend of mina ret married one. Ha got two weeka off for the ceremony, and it waa conaummated Juat two daya before be-fore hla leave expired. We had to get the written consent of the commanding command-ing generals of the French, British and . American districts, the written cAn-aent cAn-aent of three generals next ttemw ihrm, and finally, after going- through the necessary civil formalltlea of getting the license, bad to get the signature signa-ture of Frem1er Clcmencau. The head of the French nation had nether things to do bealden sign Brttinh lleutenanta' marriage llcenaca, and It look a week to get that. f "So. you ace that your honey boy has a allm chance to get married overnight over-night cr the day after he mes a Pretty little French girl. - CELEBRATION IS GREAT. "When marlragae between American , 1da and French laasea do ocrur. thev ate given every puhMclty. Wh'le I wae In Bret, one auch marriage oc- curred and the town was nlmont holly gtven over to the relebratlnn f It. The hotel whera the nawUweOa stopped was decorated, and a French end American flag, tied together, were draped over the door of the young cou- f plea room. 1 "The French eneeuraga auch mar-riagnw mar-riagnw and dealra them, but will not abate one Jot of their national regu- f lationa to mak them eaater, "The majority of French malda with whom the aoldter coma In contact ar , of a claaa among whom cultur. education edu-cation and accompli ah men te ara the rule. But almost any American boy ' would rather marry aa American Slrf |