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  2. A STORMY TRIP ACROSS INDO-CHINA.

    For years the Paris taxi-driver has been lauded (or abused) as the world's greatest exponent of reckless driving, but, compared with the tough little shrimp who manipulated the wheel of the native bus in which I recently crossed French Indo-China, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 972 words
  3. COUNTY OF ROMANCE.

    Ten years ago when the Imperial Press Conference took me to London, the charms of Kent drew me to Broadstairs, where a cousin had ...

    Article : 1,286 words
  4. THE SINEWS OF MODERN WAR.

    Robert Emerson Curtis, an English-born artist, is sketching, by special permission, Australia's growing armament industry in all its ramifications. In this dynamic pencil drawing he conveys an impression of the manufacture of antiaircraft guns in a plant thundering with giant machines. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 48 words
  5. "SO WHAT?"—IS THE SLOGAN OF ENGLAND TO-DAY.

    Leave London on a Friday night and you will still see England at war. In your carriage you may find a Jack Tar, with simply "H.M.S. Minesweeper" on his cap band; a warrant officer of the Marines; an artillery sergeant in battle dress; a munitions worker—very tired; a couple of women in uniform. It's a leave train, but some are ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,837 words
  6. FALLING BACK ON "DOBBIN."

    I paid a visit to an outback farm the other day and noted how the settlers were preparing for petrol rationing. It was not out in the ...

    Article : 569 words
  7. CADIA "RUINS."

    About 15 miles south-west of Orange in a picturesque valley through which runs Cadiangullong Creek, lie the remains of the old ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 241 words
  8. PEN, PENCIL AND GUNS.

    Robert Emerson Curtis, armed with a Government permit given to him in recognition of his reputation as an artist-interpreter of ...

    Article : 784 words
  9. HOPE OF MANKIND.

    It is not from outward pressure it is not from the sword that deliverance comes to nations: the sword cannot breed peace, it can only impose terms of peace. ...

    Article : 86 words
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  11. "HIGH DEEDS."

    High deeds, O Germans are to come from you!" Wordsworth! thou should'st be living at this hour. ...

    Article : 112 words
  12. AUSTRALIA'S ART SENSE.

    Three Weeks ago in these columns I wrote on music and culture generally in Australia from the tentative, and I hope courteous, point of view of a visitor and a guest. I have since been snowed under by correspondence from all parts of the continent. ...

    Article : 955 words
  13. THE FIRST FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT.

    Julius Caesar was the first foreign correspondent who did the Journalist's job of writing back home about what was happening in France. ...

    Article : 76 words
  14. OPACITY.

    Light travels inconceivably fast until it encounters a human mind. ...

    Article : 16 words
  15. "TROUTS ARE TICKLED BEST IN MUDDY WATER."

    Samuel Butler, who is quoted above, would have delighted in this willow-lined trout stream in southern New South Wales. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 26 words
  16. DECONTAMINATION SQUAD.

    St. Paul's—what of it?. Brick and agcing stone. Not worth, in human value, one man's life: ...

    Article : 138 words
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