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MUSSOLINI'S

CUP-

OF BITTERNESS

MUSSOLINI'S cup of bitter-

ness is precious near to over-

One of the scenic wonders of Austrália-The Thros Siators," in the Blue

Mountains of Now South Walos.

Musso's Swan(k) Song

"HO, I have a Fleet that none can

beat,"

Cries Musso, the doughty Dago, "It preserves its paint with great

restraint,

As it hides in an archipelago.

"We have such fun at tip and run,

Things really are exciting

But we don't go far from the har-

bour bar.

It's a safer game than fighting. *

"I thrust my chin with warlike grin, And Black Shirts holla "Vivas, They gulp my bluff on the Sea King:

stuff,

As becomes all true believers.

"So turn about, don't venture out,

My grand Italian Navy, Stay nearer Rome, you're best at

home,

Then you won't get sent to

Davy."

H.C. L.

A Hongkong Evacuee

Australia

Discovers

As the weeks slip away them on a beach whilst they many columns of print. But I flowing. All his best (but not and quietly fade into frolic around me."

must mention the wattle, with very cleverly) laid schemes are months, the

ita bright yellow colouring; the women of Then there are, the birds, ani warratah, a stiff dark red flower. going so sadly astray that the Hongkong are gradually mals and flowers which have which looks as if it had been glittering prizes which

50 he settling down in their new proved interesting. The varnished; and the jackarander, believed he held within his homes in Australia.

kookaburra, a wise-looking, little a bright blue bell-like flower, bird with an oversized head, has now in season. grasp after the capitulation of There are nearly a thou- appealed to me since I first saw France are rapidly turning into sand Hongkong women in hot coals, which will maim and Sydney. Since their arrival render him harmless for the they have found accommoda- tion in different suburbs;

rest of his life.

his

now-disgraced

However, the task of settling

By HELEN

WALKER

DUNCAN

In October, the wistaria was in bloom and I was fortunate to see these beautiful blossomis at Vaucluse House. This delight- ful old place, once the home of William Charles Wentworth, the Father of the Constitution, has been placed under the con- trol of a trust and fa open for public inspection.

WITH THE GUNS

By G. LESLIE CARTER "TARGET!

Hardly, it seemed, had

the bombardier shouted→ almost screamed-the word than the guns were brought to bear and fired.

It was the opening of the great katils over the Thames Estuary on Belurday, afternoon, when 500 chenry-aircraft carried out their biggest rald of the wor' on the London area

1 was standing in the command post of an A-A- gun sito; in. Essex. Minutes before the alarm... had sounded bells had shrilled. suspended a brake-drum NEAR clanget. This gunners, ; in the midst of ten, ran to their: ställang with mouths still cramined with.

In the past the plotter; wa marking" on his special!map' - thè course of the raiders.": We were ab our posts before they had croland. the coast.

Preserved there are many re-bread-and-butter. lics of the early days of colonial settlement. Originally, it was down and becoming acquainted him on the day of my arrival. the home of Sir Henry Brownie with all the freshness and beauty of the scenery here has at the Taronga Park Zoological chased five hundred barrels of There are many of these birds Hayes, an Irishman. Shortly after settling there, he pur- taken considerable time. Lodged

The

been

many

Puffs of Smoke

Then came the report that man formations of enemy bombers wore approaching a spot where they

The-guns were brought to bear in the direction - the raiders were taking. From....niles' awAY: BARCHA the river puzlāra...WILS. beard Buddenly, in the clear: blue... sky, four... Uttle pufis of hoke blossomed.

*Suddenly we saw them, the Tenders Dying in echelon". Just ahead of the bursts, the remainder surrounded by the puffs of smoke which by now and became more dansa.

'Target!"

Orders rapped out, raindi" weno siammed' in the guns" -Eyes' wern glued to the special telescope, k. spotter reported. "Dornierst.“

Two months ago Il Duce and they have arranged weekly military meetings with each other, chiefs were secretly exulting whilst their children are over the possibilities of a cam busily making new friends paign, which was not only to at various schools earn for Italy a highly strate gical stranglehold of the castern Mediterranean, but which was to pave the way for a gloriously successful offensive in Egypt. The psychological effect of the at the back of every mind is the Gardens which, incidentally, is peat soil from Ireland. This ar defeat of Greece, with its ac

eternal question, "When will we probably the most picturesquely rived on a special boat. On a would be in range of out grund companying threat to Palestine

our husbands and situated Zoological Park in the St. Patrick's Day, he took the return to

world.

pest and with it filled a trench and Egypt, was to provide proved a stumbling block to homes?" This, In itself, has

Taronga is a native word six feet deep and two feet wide, Duce with his trump card in

many who find that settling meaning "sea view and the running right round the house. dealing with British opposition. down in a new country is no easy park has been well named. It This was done in order to keep He figured on new submarine matter.

is situated on one of the pret- the snakes away. I have not bases at Crete which would not only

tiest stretches of shore on Syd- been able to discover whether. There are many who still com- permit him to bottle up the Aegens plain bitterly although, fortun-ney Harbour. In its natural St. Patrick or the peat proved to Sea (thus blunting the effect of any ately, they are in the minority state, the park consisted of be of any assistance in the mat- move which Turkey might make on

The others have philosophically

rocky ledges and slopes rising to ter.. behalf of the Allies), but which

set themselves out to study their considerable height from the would also provide him with the

water's new neighbours.

edge. These rocky chances of creating a new sea Inne

people here : have ledges have been cunningly friendly and hospitable to for the transfer of troops and equip-

utilised in the construction of Hongkong women. I like them. By ment to his Libyan bases. From that point would begin the mighty

As an evacuee I can under- enclosures for the animals. It is our tongues they know that we are stand their

there that I have seen many of not Australians. This fact alone has drive towards the Suez..

various points of

brought me But what

view. But I have come to love these strange birds, animals and innumerable people in shops, buses has happened? His

and trams, flowers. my new home with its beauty ommies have been ignominiously de-

These have included an old man feated in the field by the Greeks, and variety of scene and its The kangaroos and wallables in the Botanical Gardens who el- who, benefiting from sound, and hospitable people.

are always delight to watch. fered to give me dozens of racing quite often inspired leadership, have After many years in Hong. They, love potato chips and, as tips; a bus conductor who wanted driven the Italian invaders from kong, I find the change delight long as the bag lasts out, they me to meet, another passenger be- their land and are now in the process ful. Every day, with the help of a will stand patiently on their an old lady who commenced by ad- cause he had an Engilah accent and of completing their destruction in newly-acquired guide book, I dis- tails softly picking the chips out miring my hat and Albania, A A shattering blow to the gaudy dreams of the Roman dictator, cover something new and excit of your hand. Their tails her life histons and then mave me and sufficient to provide precisely ing. I often wonder what my and hind-legs appear to be

Everyone

is friendly and helpful-i that psychological position. for the Impressions of our Colony will be tremendously strong, but their even the clerks in the banks. What Brlish which Il Duce would be at his

little front paws and soft raba delightful experience! when I return.

I and myself making friends ensi- The benches, birds, animals, bity mouths dispel any fear. now face.

ly with the Australians and using the flowers and the language are a However, I think that, the, their slang expressions which always precision,

begun few of the many subjects which most popular of all Australian seem to describe exactly what is animals is the koala or native meant. I am beginning to under- offensive against Graziand's have proved of interest.

stand many, expressions and do, not forces, which succeeded some time

Never have seen such won bear. Such an ugly little fellow hesitate now to use them in general aro in penatrating into the Westem derful beachon with

he is, but so decidedly attractive, conversation. their while simultaneously the

deop blue

I didn't know until I arrived here I've seen the aboriginals at La their continuo

waters sparkling

of the historical tloos have bani. In short, post in the sun, the white capped that it is forbidden to keep these Pereuse and most

Albanian

little creatures as pets.

sights, I've heard Moorl singing completely

surf, dashing itself onto beaches

hauntingly, beautiful farewell Mussolini is strictly on the defensive; of fine, white sand. During the But the Koala Park at West song. I've joined in community not only Trilltarily, but domestically. Rome propaganda efforts to dismiss Warm werk ends, thousands Pennant Hills has proved a singing concerts and seen real Hlve spend their days in glorious fun. bundles of soft fur survivors, and visit everything of Interest,

months' realdeuo

The Italian forsal belleved movement with careying

two-way

Deser

drive

Into

blitzkrieg

inexorable

•

their.

into conversation with

Australian cowboyz, buck-Jumping."

dean Journey to the beaches and Banctuary for these amusing in fact, I have tried to see, talk to military is natural, but Of course, it'is difficult for us to of past ages. There they are whatever happens I will never for-

The wholesale reshuffle in ale and unconvincing: 'sweeping;; they betoken

are

betoken desperation enjoy a beach without the com- being successfully bred and get say The British offensive in the desert, forts of a matshed and cooling maintained amidst hundreds of

eucalyptus-trees. to wash our, fiffin dishes. But,

together with the Greek uchlave- ments In Albania, provides for the

I've seen

But, above arbour bridge. By the way, it may not be generally known that Sydney. Allies some of the most atimulating on the whole; I would rather

is three hours shond of Melbourne? join these crowds of friendly A description of the flowers The surge comprise, our Barbour, our holiday

makers and sit boaldo In this lovely land would take bridge and our Bradman),

riwa sirich these start off the war against the Totalitarian Vandals;

** Pirel” the, blast of the gurja buffeted my tin: hat, dust daw into my eyes. There was an (odd ̧rită- ing... nolae as the shells, dedi upward. Wo could......, sent tha machines clearly now, great twin- engined bombers flying, siendily is. formation. Above, them tiny sŭvér specks flow-back and forth-the escort of Messerschmitt fighters.||

Now · puds—our | haltejinéct the barrage of splinters"up" them..

The formation, rattled, How on. others looming up in its wako,' but weaving in and out,

**Minutem after there came, this deeper earth-shuddering :explosion. of a bomb. Then others. DAA

"Fighters an 'em, air," reported a spotter. High in the sky to the south...ủ mọ thin (plume - of smoke started falling downward. It' grow as it plummeted. Far over, in Kent we lost sight of it. To the morth more, machine-guns...wero firing. Again a great bad of smoke- Itumbled out of the sky,

Wheeling Bombers

Than again the shout" of **Target!", The, bombers, now Joined by Heinkels, were wheeling. coming back into rängs äfter their Job had been done. Once more our muna belohed, ledving yellow cordite smoke on the still, evening -- air. Our birats followed thơm: until: m predictor operator shouted)/ dési pondently, Migurges out of range!” MAN The guns shad done their job.. Nobody, deres i think;; of; the shamblas »,the, raiders,might;

·-have-caused 4fishey had bean ... allowed to Ar on undisturbed. vy The damage Lany,did, waR, STORE,

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