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A RETURNED TRAVELLERo
To the Editor.
Sir, - Who in the name orf Had
is J. J. Horrocks? More arrant]
twaddle about the English race I
never read. He deserves to be
put on the same mark as one "Teece" I re
cently read about., who made equally silly
remarks. There is one very true remark
in the effusion, and that is in the heading
"A Returned Traveller." J.J.lI. must be a
bagman pure and simnple. I dtare .wear hlm
never went near Eton. Rugby. or Cam-'
bridge, or at any rate nearer than the re
freshment buffets at those railway stations
or he would have :een that degenern?ioan
has not yet set in in tho.e placns amongl
the young public ihool Imen of England.
One would ahnn: t think the great J. J.
Horrocks had been brougcht up at Eton,
Rugby, and Cambridge (in any order yeao
like), but I would venture to assert that
he was never at a public school in his life,c
nor even at a university. lie has grown
so much in his own cstiuntimation in those 25;
years he has ro well spent in Auitrnlia that,
even the police and the Tommies have doe-.
teriorated and beome smnaller.-Yours, ctc.,,
AN OLD PUBLIC SCIIOO I MA.N...
Perth, February 2.
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