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Warrnambool Standard in Warrnambool, Victoria

19 Dec 1918

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Warrnambool Standard

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Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

Date

Dec 19, 1918

Page

5

A Tale of Three Wars Rediscovered on the Rails

In a long wartime chapter the pursuit by Boers, escape from Pretoria, and a daring engine hijack unfold. Lord Walworth and Dick escape capture, steal a Boer engine, outrun pursuers, and reach allied lines with help from New Zealanders as dawn breaks over the veldt.

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Wise and Otherwise in Wartime Gibberish Dialog

Fragmented comic dialogue portrays a chaotic wartime recruiting scene with misheard speech and muddled sounds. Instructors explain badge tricks and recruits struggle with humor and memory, while other characters joke about ships trains and rumors of a future day.

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Solving the Difficulty and Oddities of Commands

A fragmented antiquated tale shows a quartermaster wrestling with indented commands and a gardener quoting old maxims. Amid mismatched orders and comic miscommunications a cat, a bride, and a German-made bowler pin the humor to a World War II era vignette.

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