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Evening Star, Issue 16350, 16 February 1917, Page 8

AXZAC. THE SOLDIER DOCr. When Driver 11. X. Wa.ker embarimd on a transport in Svdnev r-n hri wa- to Keypt in Octolwr. i914,‘ he took as his shipmate a pappy dot:, vvhicii had been presented to him at the aye of three weeks by-an old Sydney woman. At the a •-> of two years and four months the known *<* al! Australian soldiers ns Anzac. is a veteran soldier, having seen service ir. nyvpt, (lailipoH, France, and Belgium. -Anzac h.'is ;*larhievo'J fame in T;f-j;-- ri and .South Africa, and on a irpmorabie occasion he ,va> presented. i,y Qin.vu Alexandra wall a handsome rug, his mop cherished |ios>ossioa. Ho lias hcei; brought ba.-s to Melhoimio, and i.-;. to be pn;i :i--r-:-1 at liny,'ll Bark for a month, Anzac was t lea fed at Gallipoli and again in Belgium .or shell shock. During his absence at the front lie was vaccinated and tnocuiated. He Ims his pap rs. just like ordinary ,md'e’rs, sjened by the doctors at Ilajv-ik-kl ip,.! pit-al, showing that lie has been, incapacitated. It was while ho wis at Ilatefu-Ll that Queen Alexandra presented him with a rug. Ho has been over a good p,m 0 f England, a n ! m Scotland, ami c-1) of his photographs wow told in aid of tin- Kcd Cross fund. In*? dog Inis been trained to .hand at attention, salute at the. command, hia-rk time, and set oil' on a Inoad march. When told by his master to show how lie looked over the parapet, at Fritz. Anzac. stands on his hind legs and cranes his

r.eck ns f<n- as possiMn. Lik- nt-iwr soldiers, Anznc finds so-ince in sim.kc.

In the Supreme Court at ■Wellington ye;, t-c-rday Bobert. Henry Symington was sentenced to reformative treatment for a term not- exceeding three years for indecent as SB I,lit.