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ORDER TO LADY BLAMEY MELBOURNE, Feb. 22. There lias been no change in tiie War Cabinet’s decision of a fortnight ago that Lady Blarney, wife of the officer commanding the Australian Imperial Force, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Blarney should return to Australia from the Middle East without delay . The acting-Prime Minister, Mr. A. W. Fadden, explained to-day that Lady Blarney had been given her own choice of how to return —by sea or air. it had been made clear to her that, having chosen, she would have to catch the first boat or the first aeroplane available. Asked whether Lady Blarney’s memory would be jogged, if necessary, Mr. Fadden replied: “It will be if we do not get something definite.” When Lady Blarney left Australia for the Middle East she travelled by fiving-boat. _____
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20492, 28 February 1941, Page 9
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