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one side of the Court and put through. It is a city of quotation--sacred and some remarkable prices to unintelligible profane, from the "Si monumentum re human barking. Like clock-work they quiris of Christopher Wred to that epic goed stepped, like clock work they stamp- of the East Ends

ed and pawed the earth with one foot, With ons movement they sprang in all

NEW YORK CIT Seven, men from all the world back ta direction-forward, then backward, then

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satisfaction with this faultless performi "I have taken seizin of this laul with when a visiting Australian Premier made indulged in until one side weaken Cities of the World to providly morni

One recalled this on a recent Sunday,ance, so I have decided that the game is

Eighty Offices are established in Princips bath my hands. Thus William the Con a tour of crowded but philosophical White day the "new guard, wen. I must go Organisations and Private Individde with queror, wheir landing in England, he chapel, and found solace in the fact that again and see the others, win!

complete World Wide Ranking. Shiping and, fell upon his face on the foreshore. Slow- there were no slums in his matiye State.

Travel Sorrico. , and with true British deliberation, Which is perfectly true. In Australia, this spot that is for over England took rested interests are not so firmly vested. ita revenge, and his descendants, Ner- and the spaces are wide. gans on Saxo soil, lived to sing Ser how England hath conquered me." How! could it be otherwise! Exense ane, I'm a Colonial," as the Diggers used to any when some characteristic example of audacity or Anzacity - had excited comment in an older civilisation where such things were not done; and, there- fore, anything I may say must not be used in evidence against me. Neverthe- less, looking towards the griffin that marks the site of Temple Bar, and hold ing a map of London in my right hand. I swear that what I shall say is true but Australians, und, as such, binthers of

Like the old 'gnard, the new guard Had three offers. The majors dis appeared, and the others paired nad marched up and down, the carriers of the The stems are depressing to an Aused at the famous unmes there woven

Colours, riveting our attention as we peor |tralizi. . However.

Malplaquet. Alma, Soudan-while the men around removed their hats in honour. sentries were relieved with clash of Then, as the band played, the outpost

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at a Cup Final, where what took leaving, for the moment they were out of place was not altogether their fault. At sight of the relieving guard, the Band Hamstead Heath on Bank Holiday one changed its tune to a quick step, and a ces them at their inimitably good-humour strode off at top speed."

Let us go home. It has been a long day, patience and their use of fun. The and it is more than midnight. fo the hasty Australian, who has not yet learn. Strand nien in knee boots, with squeegees Travel Transaction. ed that consideration for his fellows and hoses in their hands, are bringing the which reconciles him to standing in not shame the deck of a liner. Why this road surface to a cleanliness which would. queue, admires and should imitate them.

Perhaps for the super-scrupulousness ? sake of the street acrobats who will por form midway between the streams of traffic on the following day. It may be that there is some regulation of the City of Westminster which forbids them dirty-

"HOME IS WHERE THE HEART 15."!) These, therefore, are the reflections of one who has been asked to set forth what

METROYUME OF THE METROPOLIS. an Australian feels, and why he feels it, when he experiences London for the first What the Compleat. Crowd should be time. It can be said in four. words-he was demonstrated on the day of the Royal has one home. He realises why tha Wedding, which was so the day of the word "ame is used by all the elder London policeman. generation of Australians as a preferable Whether he is standing unperturbable ating their hands. synonym for England; and he learns be the stem and stern of a street accident, yond forgetting, when he stands in Westar handling a tangled skein of traffic with minster Abbey, what Kipling meant when an adequate forfinger, he inspires conful. he wrote of

ence and commands respet. And he is always good humoured Let me tell you The hash of the dread high altar where about Bill and Bert, two policemen who

the Abbey makes us We...

stood side by side on the fringe of the Weddling procession. Bill was chewing all the time-chocolate, I suppose; it could not have been tobacco; he was too cheat. He and Bert exchanged quiet witticisms to the intense delight of the people behind them, who were overjoyed when Bill offer. the Guardsman in front of him a pice

Need any excuse be offered, then, for the feeling of an Australian that an renching England be has entered into his inheritance? That is his first conviction and his second is that all Londoners seem tur be life-members of a Society for Taked ing London for Granted.

THE HISTORIC PRESENT.

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Why would they crime you Bill.

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Ah, well, they like us to chew be cause then they know that we're not talk ing."

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They did not faint at Wembley Park. Hero, at one stage of the stampeds, before full reinforcements arrived a few hun- dred..

y attempting control sixty thousand people who were Changchun Bankow Minhouli Tientsin beyond exjotery and would have resented Cheloo bullying. Those men in blue never falter Dairen ed, never failed, never lait their sense of humour font que sea Halar neither batous nor revolvera They were equipped merely with their neatly rolled

His tempulse, swiftly translated into action, is to try to infect Londoners with his enthusiasm. They seem to an preciate it some of them (lees he just) but they wonder at it. London is theirs It has always been theirs, and it always capes. By an inspiration which only a will be, as was demonstrated to Germany London policeman could conceive, a when she tried to prove the contrary. No slender cordon of the spread their caŢES praise, however just no idolatry, how and sat down on them, thereby persund ever spontaneous, can increase or detracting a restless section of the crowd to from its essential Londonisin, Londoners | follow their example. take it for granted,

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A sight which could have been seen nowhere but in England and on such & So, does not the Australian, He has day was that of a perspiring but un- perchance embarked at Calais, in the harassed constable who, having calmed the Babel of vociferous confusion with which half-hysterical people in his immediate French porters conduct the transport of neighbourhood, steeped back, removed his luggage, and his steamer has slid through helmet, mopped his brow, and remarked, foggy but welcome silence to Dover. The Well, you are blinkin' fatheads, any- And even the ranks white cliffs are weiled, and one picture if how! Ain't you?"

his childhood's history books fails of veri- of Tuscany could searce forlent to hdmit fication. But the piers and harbour out-the impeachment.. works on the still grey sea give promise

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which a pageant yet will move. He awaits fully handled, were returued, more or the event, and meanwhile procresta dark, to the place from whence they caine. ling to London by a snug train, having Here and there was a threatening bulge is tyre about to burst. first had a cherring encounter with the their line, like heavily, uniformed, uniformly courteous But the explosion never took place. n guard.

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of a taxi.

On oiled wheels and an oilier roadway the lads in pavy blue "Ah, those are our the taxi, which will cost about half what boys!" was the ecstatic acknowledgement it does in Australia, slithers to an hotel, of the watchers who saw a squad of men.

Service wheel into It slips past Horseferry road, the military of the Senior depote whereof the Diggers told so many position on Wedding Day. And if the stories; past the Abbey and the Houses of sailors are adored, it is not too much to Parliment with Big Ren, lit and booming, my that Royalty is worshipped. Who in the sky about Charing Cross accom- that saw and heard it can forget the in- panies Trafalgar square into the dark cident at Wembley Park, when the King ness, but not before Australian eyes have arrived just as pandemoniung seemed scen Nelson's Column, and Australian about to break loose! Every head was. hearts have realised that here is something bared, and the confused in gave place more than the Umbilicus Urbi of Ancient to the des diapason of the National Rome--something which Arthur Streiton, Authen intoned by two hundred thou an Australian artist not without fame, has sand voices, which crashed it home.with portrayed on noble canvas as The the triple Amen of three tremendous Heart of the Empire, And for once in cheers, of three tremendous

picture has come true.

There is an Australian girl who has inst seen the changing of the Guard at OLEST THEY, FORGET.

Buckingham Palace: One of her brothers There should be a Royal Society of St. was an Anzac, who sleeps at Pozieres; the Gerue for Remembering London, and it other was in the Australian, Flying should be as active in its operations as Corns. Soldiers scarlet-coated Britiah that parent society before which Sit Tän | soldiers-are her joy and pride. Let us Hamilton spoke. Australia remembers peep over her shoulder; she was fourd him: and will remember, too, his comment" something to write home about,” as the on the rally of the Diggers when it was boys used to say in the A.I.F.E thought, a few months ago, that Abdul At the end of Friary Court waited the meant mischief again How well that guard about to be relieved-gorgeous olean potato peeled 1" But Australia bear-skinned figures standing at ease. One desires no more Turkish adventures, just entry was posted at each for corner, pow-at least, not until she knows what watching for the relieving guard," soon to they are all about.

march in to the gay, swinging tunes of

Here is history in enduring stone, the Guards Band, the first sound of romance in hewn nahlar. This is a city which brought the sentries smartly that takes cognisance of all things Im-through saluting movemente perial, Australia, too, here--not alone Up and down the centre of thin in Australia House, facing the crowded Court marched three officers of the 'old' stream of the Strand like some Dread-guard-n major, a senior lieutenant, and a nought caying a fairway, but in the junior lieutenant, who carried the Colours, statue of Captain James Cook in St. Up and down they went, moving together," James's Park, and in the bronze monu- but each retaining an individuality in his. ment to the Camel Corps in the Embank stride, unlike the men in this respect. Bo ment Gardens. In such surroundings we fore the new guard arrived, the officers give thanks that we have been found took up positions, with the men waiting. 2worthy.

Then the new guard was marched to

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