State Library of NSW
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(28)In the centre of the town where buildings have been close pressed and huddled cheek by jowel, all is a mass of indescribable wreck.The principal public building which was; has been flattened to dust like a pack of scorched cards.There is little to indicate its site, and nothing to tell of its past towering importance.Troops who entered this town on the heels of the departing Hun can speak of its fine appearance for it was then almost intact. They can tell you how it was selected to billet one of our headquarters staff, and how, on the eighth day after the Huns evacuation of the town it was blown out of existence by the vile
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