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A BASE REWARD. Business Man: I call that rank ingratitude! Our New Zealand soldiers, when asked what they wanted most as a reward for their gallantry after the big battle at Ypres, in one voice called for " a good ration of rum." His Wife: Perhaps, John dear, they haven't heard yet of our forcing the drink fiends to close their hotels at six o 'clock to win the war.
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Observer, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6, 13 October 1917, Page 16
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69A BASE REWARD. Business Man: I call that rank ingratitude! Our New Zealand soldiers, when asked what they wanted most as a reward for their gallantry after the big battle at Ypres, in one voice called for " a good ration of rum." His Wife: Perhaps, John dear, they haven't heard yet of our forcing the drink fiends to close their hotels at six o 'clock to win the war. Observer, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6, 13 October 1917, Page 16
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