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Undoubtedly many events in history could have been more dramatically arranged if the participants had allowed Holly- wood to write the script. The motion pictures, however, seem not to let facts interfere unduly with a story.

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any in the allitude, -Richard the north. I'd Lion Heart had surveyed the where, to-morrow.”

Meanwhile, it is up with the tents of his Crusaders.

of ttune, but "Waltzing Mathilda."

recognisable of

That, he explained knowingly, was Australia's national anthem, which these fine inen had taught him them- selves.

And If anyone is a judge of men It is white-bearded Abdullah, re- cognised storyteller, arbitrator, men- tor in affairs of the heart, and, of Jerusalem's Old City.

He is not the only one who thinks

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Young Mazal, the

A. Look Through The Telegraph";

50 YEARS AGO

June 20, 1999. An Anglo-German Convention has been concluded by which Germany withdraws all claim to Witu and Bomaliland and in exchange receive the island of Keligoland.

.....

Ian Peral, the inventor of the sub- matine boat, has been granted a titin and. #100,000,

Mr. Stanley, speaking at a banquet at the Fishmongers all lant night, in- abandonment by veighed against the Great Britain of her · conimerco, in East Africa, in favour of Germany, and urged that a deputation from the city should: wait upon Lord Balisbury to impresa uspon him the necessity for maintaining Beiligh rights in that quarter.

Prince Blamarck has been giving out Hi Vis on the relations between Stuka and Germany to the "Nevoe Vremya's" correspondent. He said Ger- many needed the Austrian alliance for the same reason that itusala needed France. He then added: "I have always been against a war with Itumia. It would,

be a crime for dermary to extend her frontlers, beyond

for the Baltic Provinces without Poland would be of no- value, while the annexation with nine millian Catholic Pules would raise the number of Calbolfes in Germany to hall e population. War with Russia is in- possible."

25 YEARS AGO

June 25, 2010. Reuter's corespondent in Paris, says that the Italian Beet has taken over the Iminediate guard of the Adriatic. This is nouded by an order of the day of the French Admiral-in-Chief, who praises the endurance of the bluojackols who have been engaged for ten month in this res. Alon,

•

During the question time in die House at Commons, Mr. H. J. Tennant. Under Secretary for War, said that the acroniane sarvice could not be improvised in a hurry, but its steady development had progressed since the war and was con- nuing rapidly. The possible develop- ment of the Flying Corps was a legitimate cause of satisfaction to the country,

10 YEARS AGO

June 25, 1130, The famous Australian airman, Coptaita Kingsford Smith, who left Pori Karnock, Ireland. In the aeroplane "Southern Cross" at 4.30 this morning to fly across the Atlantic wirolessed at 8 pan. that be was in latitude 50.40, longitude 34.30. De was therefore more than half way Bernat, Els peed is 00 miles an hour.

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There was a large gathered at Queen's Pier this morning when

W.

T. Bowthorn, Colonial Secretary, and Mrs. Southorn lett for komne leave.

5 YEARS AGO

June 25, 135, It is authoritatively tearned from Home that Italy Intends to demand actual sovereignty in Abyssinia, through the que of arms if necessary, using the Anglo. German naval agreement

partial justincntion. Hence, the conversations of Mr. Ellen with Signor Mussolini are ex- pected to be most interesting.

AS

RADIO

ZBW, 355 metres (845 kc.) andı 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) A B.B.C. Recording Of "Hail Variety"

Rnillo Programme Broadcast by diminutive z. B. W. on a Frequency of 840 k.c's.

Yemenite Jew who polishes shoes by and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m.. day and learns the three R's by night, and B-11

he longer wants to be a police officer second.

when he grows up.

p.m. on 0.32 m.c's, per

H. K. T.

Short Service of Inter-

He wants to be an Australian.

12.15 p.m. And there must be thousands of cession, other youngsters who think the some 12.30 Coleman Hawkins and His

Saxophone.

12.40 The "Aussies" leave day is the

Primo Scala's Accordeon

way,

I interrupted Corporal Mac. dawn and strenuous training children's holiday, particularly in Bajul,

Tel-Aviv. Their abounding good 1.00 Local Time Signal and Wen- Leod's reverie to tell him so. throughout the morning.

HLead, of the Second Aus- There is much to commend in the recent trend toward factual tralian Imperial Force.

Standing on a ridge some- and historical films, especially where in Palestine, he gazed the records of strivings and down

camp the triumphs of great men who are eternal warrior broading on the benefactors of humanity. But battics to come. the development has also its puzzling side to those in search of learning by the visual route. In a statement recently, Dore Schary, motion picture script writer, deplored the

"Yes," he said, "they must blatant departure from fact in have camped hereabouts. Won- such films as "Suez" and "The der if any of my Scottish ances- Buccaneer." But he says, "Filmtors were there?

"It probably looked much the biography can't and shouldn't

tents no then. Same same follow fact precisely. The things

huts, though-spread all over that happen are often so un- the denert." dramatic that they are boring." The banner, at least, were sports grounds.

of the When

Instead Edison invented the different. electric light his men

had to Crusader's cross, there was a wait around the laboratory forty blue flag bearing on it the Union Jack and six stars-the flag of Australia.

After dinner-amid a whole. humour, friendliness and generosity ther Report,

above all, their tremendous vitality 1.03 Dance Masło by Harry Roy some flavour of earth, leather, make them the finest playmates and His Orchestra,

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Announce- It they interrupt the traffle for a Weather Forecast and rifle-oil and stew-there is a the youngsters have ever had. short break, then more work.

A Several afternoons week while with their waggish processionsmenis.

well, the grown-ups do not mind. 1.45 Compositions of Mozart,

2.15 Close Down. there are games. The day they They laugh, too.

3.00 A Programme of Dance Music.. arrived, practised eyes among

0.60 Closing Local Stock Quota- them were searching out likely

tions.

7.00 B. B. C. Eccording In the last war, at the front and variety."Written and devised by

arc

Already A Legend

the gift of becoming legends. This

With Palestinians, they are already

behind the lines, the Australians had Gale Pedrick, Production

Speer. generation will be no different.

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And there is the music-loving the Bulging Run; John Goss (Bar!- Cathedral Male Volco Polish refugee boy who found tone) and

Quartet. 8.43 violin one day with a note, "From

Selections from Musicnt Rita" -- Selection, the Australian, who is also fond of Comedy, “Rio music, whom you showed the way is Rila"--You're Always In My to town the other day."

Arms, Reginald King and His Orches These and many others will talk tra; Comedyland Medley, Columbia about the "Aussies" for years. ›› Light Opera Company with Orchez- tra; "No, No, Nanette" Selection, "Show of Showa"-Selection, New with Edward Mayfair Orchestra O'Henry (Organ); "The Cat and the Fiddle-Vocal Gems, Light Opera Company with Orchestra,

9.15 London Relay News Bum- maryen

It was rugby, soccer, hockey and basket-ball then. Now they

7.30 London Relay-The News. are laying down cricket pitches, Canteen hours may be short and

8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather early bed the rigid rule, but there f legend. hours to determine whether it

is plenty of time-and facilities-

There is the Jerusalem widow for Report and Announcements.

#.03 Jack Hylton, and Ills Orches- would burn that long. But in For in this corner of an an- for entertainment.

whose ailing infant party of

tra--Medley of Old Songs, with Vocal Each camp has its cinema and "Aussles" whom she has never sech Refrain; Sweet Sue; Grinzing; Tho Tel 21278 the picture; "Edison, the Man," cient land, part of the A.I.F. is

leisure room. There wireless bought a new pram and cot.

Bassoon; Ya Got Something There; Aussies' it was thought better to heightenin training,

There is the cripplett pedlar whose Watermelon Fete; Down South. Companies were falling in for seas and pianos, and the

entire wares some of them bought, the interest at this point by

8.33 Bea Shanties-Haul Away, No wonder the Sydney "Sun" up before sending him home to get Joc; Why Shall We Do With The inventing a character who should inspection. Batteries were clank- sing-songs are renowned.

A ing back from the ranges. wrote: "There is shortage of inen a "decent night's eyeshut.”

Drunken Sailor; Fire Down Below; There is the Arab village bride Hullabaloo Balay; The Sailor Likes trip and break the lamp in bring-squad with a machine-gun was singers in Sydney now so many of

them are in the army!"

who got a wedding present of a His Bottle-O; Clear the Track, Let ing it upstairs and who should going somewhere in a hurry.

Long before I came upon a camp camel. then be given the opportunity by Away on a hillside, a sil-

one night, I heard the hills echoing of camels the volces of some of them. Edison to retrieve himself by houetted caravan

"There's a trock winding back to carrying up the second lamp stood, petrified at the sight of

an old-fashioned shack,

"Along the road to Gundaphi, when it had been made. "Even a line of tanks.

And yet in spite of this though this did not happen, it activity, most of the work was illustrates Edison's actual char-being done out of sight.

Through the clear air came the Wagga to Palestine actor," holds Mr. Schary.

Lance Corporal William Box, for- But how many who see this grunts of big guns. Echoing

Grand Brotherhood portrayal on the screen in a ceaselessly from the hills came mer music-teacher and chair-master of Wagga Cathedral, was at the

"What were you in Australia?" asked a corporal at a camp. getting of fact are going to know the chatter of machine-guns.

It all meant hard work for the Piano that it did not happen? How

Private Harry Walters, a Sydney "A private."

"I mean before that.". many in good faith may repeat Aussies.

auctioneer before the war, led the "But we didn't come hore voices with a superb tenor.

"Member of the Melbourne Stock

9.30 London Itelay-Topical Talk, it as a story illustrative of the

just to look at the scenery," Sergeant "Tiny" Ramsay, who used Exchange," he replied as he walked kindliness of Edison?

9.45 Some Welsh SongDavid of Apparently movie-goers are said Corporal Alan MacLeod, to be a lecturer in English Literature off with his new bosom comrade,

in Sydney, was the bass.

who had been an iron-worker, in a the White Rock, Leila Megane (Con- witnessing a recrudescence in a "We came here to get ready fur

The cornet blasts came from war- foundry.

tralto) with Plano; Song of the Flood, William Edwards If ever there was a democratic Olwen Mine, different medium of the kind of the job we've got to do some rant Officer Bartlet, who is the prin-"

My cipal shareholder in a Melbourno de volunteer army, it is there men of (Tenor) with Harp accomp.; dramatization of history which where else."

partment store.

the A.L.F. There are no typical Little Welsh Home, All Through the scholars have been trying to de-

An orchestra, with Instruments private tent, with the same Plano,

N.C.Os or officers. Night, Lella Megano (Contrallo) with bunk. Millions of Americans

provided by the Australian Comforts Aussies Settle Down

Compositions of Sibellas. Fund-one of in many thoughtful bunks of bare board, I found an in have grown up supposing Parson

Considering their varied oc- provisions-is in the making. So is surance agent, the son of the Minis Tone-Poem "Finlandia" Op. 20, No. Weems's story of Washington

7; Leopold Stokowski and the Phila- ter of Justice, a newspaper seller, and the cherry tree to be cupations and environments less a divisional concert troupe.

But the great pleasure of the boys stovedore, the chef of Sydney's lead- delphia Orchestra, Romance, Op. 70,, indisputable fact. It is in keep-than six months ago, the Aussion ing with the Washington char-have settled down with remark- from "down under" in to visit the Ing hotel, a law student, an Iron No. 2; Dance Champetre, Op. 100, No. towns, These they conquered in an monger and the nephew of a baronet 2, Danse Champetre, Op. 100, No. 1, Emil Telmany! (Violin) with Piano hour's. Blitzkrieg the day they ap And while we sat and chatted, a neter, but there is no historicalable aptitude.

Ifran Sia "No more amateurs here," one peared.

lieutenant looked in. At home he accomp.; Flickan. Kam confirmation for it. Will those

Ok Sheikh Abdullah el-Hilo was a clerk in the law student's Alsklings Mote, Sav, Sav, Sura, Op. 38, No. 4, Morian Anderson (Con- who wish to get their history of their instructors told me... from the movies have to begin"They're soldiers. And with a (Abdulloh the Beautiful), monarch father's factory.

They are a grand brotherhood, traito) with Piano; Symphony No. 1 to keep a card index as to which remarkable inborn faculty for and sage of Khan es-Sultan in

Jerusalem's Old City, agrees they are these loose-limbed, cheery mon from in E Minar, 0, 80, Symphony Or

conducted "down" under," But they are more, chestra

by Robert "cobborn." incidents ere factual and which Lawrence-like tactics.

They'd be ideal for any cam- To emphasise the point he hummed They are the vanguard of a nation Kojonus, are dramatic licence if they can

11:00 Close Down paignTM iff Asia Minor or farther the chorus Uittle cracked and out for whom democracy is rigl. find out?

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