Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 85
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[Page 85]
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with a sheaf of papers in his hand and a look of gentle purpose on his face.
Rest seems to be the need of the majority of the men here, especially of the Australians who have had a long spell in a bone rattling train and have seen all they care to see for the day. As a rule they potter about and dig up whatever interest a place may be capable of producing but now hardly a man of even the wakeful amongst them is interested in anything. Scarcely a man of them lifts his head to gaze at the spectacle of two German officers being brought along by an armed escort from a more forward part of the dock, or at the batch of German Red Cross prisoners following in their wake.
There is one Australian, however, who looks on and who in spite of all that he has previously seen of the German soldier mentally notes new impressions. No doubt