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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 23, 7 November 1940, Page 2

SI m m THE DESERT’S DUSTY FACE Being excerpts from the Brewer's own Liason Officers in the Land of Pharoahs, Pharcows, Caliphs and Buckshees. Tim and Ru's first letter home KSHKiSi (censored) .. . the good time they. * had at HWUBBi (censored) . -. and what they did at BHH (censored) .... hence the pyramids . . . . and the Sphinx's inscrutable smile .... Midnight leave to MBIMi (Censored and Out-of-Bounds .by Routine Orders) ... The visit to the Bazaar ... the true meaning of Ali-Baba and the forty thieves . . . The arrival of the “Gift Package” from Enzed ... Four dozen of the best Soldiers' Comforts bottled with loving care . .. and a stray copy of Omar Khayyam .... An appropiate passage for “Lights Out” from Omar himself. “Arise and drink, the herald of the Dawn Proclaims the advent of another.day. See the dawn breaks and rends night’s canopy Arise and drain a morning draught with me. Away with gloom, full many a dawn will break Looking'for us, So one for the Road, 1 And to HWiWBHI ( censored) with C.B. P.S. The last line is ours. Which apparently is the poet's way in the near East of saying “A Good time was had by Ale.” Ah well, “Give me a stoup and sing a glee in concert with the Bulbuls' symphony", for we must away. Mafeesh feloos .. . Imshi back to camp. Thank goodness for a thirst. The Desert takes it out of you • Timaru mds it hack THE STUFF TO GIVE THE TROOPS COPYRIGHT. TASI94./160 \ I iliZ/A/y, „ 11 It///Sss gSu*m C/*"‘ MEwSTOUT Brewed, and Bottled with loving care by NEW ZEALAND BREWERIES LTD., Timaru Branch.

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