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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22368, 15 September 1934, Page 14

The Duke of Wellington always declared that the true story of Waterloo had not been written in his time. The IlOtli anniversary, in June last, of that historic battle, recalled to' a correspondent of a London newspaper a method of reviewing that might be applied to the flood of highly contradictory books about the Great War. The story of _ the review was told by General Sir John Jones, who, on one occasion, travelled ip the same carriage ns the great duke. He watched Wellington rending a ponderous quarto relating to the Battle of Waterloo, and against paragraph after paragraph he traced with a big. badlysharpened pencil either the letter “ L or the two “ D.L.” Sir John ventured to ask what the mystic letters meant, and ho received the laconic reply: Why, ‘Lie' and ‘Damned lie,’ of course.