AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Grey River Argus, 19 May 1943, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

HUGE WAVE AT SYDNEY SYDNEY, May 17. A great wave, caused by .a local submarine upheaval, swept across Cronulla Beach Esplanade on Sunday morning, engulfing a number oi people. Some saved themselves from being carried out to sea by the receding wave by grasping the railings across which they were being washed. Others were rescued by lifesavers. A girl walking on the esplanade had her skirt torn by tho wave, which was more than ten feet deep when it reached the roadway.

AUSTRALIAN HILL-BILLIES

SYDNEY, May 17.

Australia has its hill-billy citizens who live a life remote from the outside world. Two brothers from the upper reaches of Hawkesbury River did not know Australia was at war until they were called up for army service recently. Officers, who spent weeks endeavouring to catch up with them, found they had never read a newspaper, heard a radio, or been fo school. They could not read or write. Another recruit from the same locality had never seen a woman except his mother. One call-up officer declared: “There are many similar cases in the great hill-billy areas of New South Wales.”