Item 02: Arthur Henson Smith letters, 8 January 1917-19 August 1919 - Page 6
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not light on a means of using them against the Hun. If you think they might be trained to exterminate Fritz as they are exterminating the stock I shall place an order for a few billion with you. They might do in lieu of the gallant, stand backs who voted No! My contempt for those bounders has no limit. How any sane man could vote against the Bill I cannot imagine though I can of course pity the ignorance of hysterical females whose thinking has to be done for them by proxy. If I had any way I would delight in running a cylinder of phosgene gas on every member of that vile I.W.W. and I would jail every R.C. who was such a traitor as to coerce ignorant servant girls & factory girls into voting against every principle of her country, using his & their creed as a means. When used in that fashion it brings a religion down to a pretty puny level therefore such creed should be forbidden in the land. Before me at present I have a Bulletin received today from Mr Hunter Patterson. The full page illustration shows a Tommy, a Poillee, a Russo & a Belgian side by side in the trenches which the Germans are attacking. On the parapet stands a big Australian with the white flag tied on his rifle which he is debating whether to wave. The Bulletin is an issue of a date just before the Referendum day and the inscription