SWOP PLACES
SOLDIERS AXD SAILORS
(0 - C -> SYDNEY. August 15. Bearded bailors cf the Australian navy in this area spend week-ends feeding pigs, tending vegetable gardens at an inland farm, shooting swamp geese, or fishing at some lilvtringed lagoon many miles from the nearest salt water, telegraphs a war en t from somewhere in
soldiers, on the other hand, get fnr?%/ rom the dust - the trees. , e r oar of Bren carriers and motor transport, and lounge around naval craft or fish from its decks. Army authorities in this area have just begun this system of short-leave nL m army and naval a ? s to men as as P° sible from the atmosliving 0 m W they have bee o
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 194, 18 August 1942, Page 6
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