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  2. It Happened in the A.I.F.

    A gruff old colonel was in the habit of taking his lunch at a Melbourne hotel. The male waiters had been replaced by ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 132 words
  3. BOUQUETS for TWO

    WHEN he stumbled to his corner at the end of the fifth round in his ten-round fight with Togo ...

    Article : 199 words
  4. MYSTIFYING CHANGE

    HE had been able to recognise some of the sports writers as they glanced up from their places: now, they were ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 805 words
  5. TURNING THE TABLES

    “WHY’S he been yelping at the lad?” said Fordan. “He can’t help it. I reckon,” said Peter Weasel. ...

    Article : 766 words
  6. Armor Plated For Football

    The New Zealand digger’s story of the breast plate that saved him from dire destruction, recalls a couple of “armor-plated” Aussies that I saw at the Melbourne cricket ground just after the war. ...

    Article : 502 words
  7. Tactics That Misfired

    IT was Christmas eve, 1917, bitterly cold, and we didn’t have a drop of drink in the sergeants’ mess. A pal and I were returning campwards ...

    Article : 270 words
  8. QUESTION OF VALUES

    During one stunt in France in 1916 the Aussies captured a German general. An attache was sent to attempt to negotiate an exchange. “We will give you four English officers for him,” said the ...

    Article : 74 words
  9. RECKONED M.O. LIED

    ANY member of the 7th platoon, B Company, 21st Battalion, will verify this — If he happened to be about that day in Were Gully back ...

    Article : 134 words
  10. THE MAN FROM MONTREAL

    SIR GODFREY, the father of The Marquis, was in his Barkington Square house. A card had been brought to ...

    Article : 986 words
  11. High Finance

    IN 1917 I was in the Australian camp at Bostrail Heath, Abbey Wood. Kent, London. We had a real wag of a fellow they called “Curly.” He ...

    Article : 181 words
  12. Real Mackay As Soldier And At Sport

    Major-General I. G. Mackay, recently placed in a high command with the 2nd A.I.P., was a splendid halfback at Newington College many ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 193 words
  13. CHAMPAGNE DOUCHE

    IN the dressing - room, The Marquis lay back on the rubbing-table. Stan Fordan was trundled in. He said to the ...

    Article : 719 words
  14. NOW YOU TELLONE

    WRITS now and tell as the best digger story you know. Earth week The Globe will give a prize of £1 for the story judged best of chose used ...

    Article : 68 words
  15. “YOW!! — THE DOCTOR”

    AT Verne Citadel, Dorset, England, in 1817, batches of diggers arrived from France to await the decision of a medical board. After ...

    Article : 166 words
  16. Soccer Start Transfer

    DAN RODERICK, Lex Gibb and Ross Kit[?]ching, three of last season’s internationals and Queensland soccer players, have signed on for ...

    Article : 30 words
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