ARAB CURIOSITY
Aborigine With Australian Troops
(Received December 8, 8-30 p.m.)
SYDNEY, December 8.
The Australian war correspondent reports from Gaza that a full-blooded Australian aborigine, Wally Thomson, from the far west of New South Wales,
aroused great curiosity among the Arabs on the arrival of the Australian troops. His eloquent outburst of language while dispersing the peering crowd left no doubt concerning his Australian origin, lie is now treated with even greater respect and veneration than his white comrades in arms.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 64, 9 December 1940, Page 7
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