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of hotels was rigorously barred against us.
This humiliation was bequeathed to us by our own countrymen (Australians) who had gone on before us.
It was simply an absolutely necessary precaution, taken by the town people amongst whom we found ourselves, against the repetition of sheer madness perpetrated by the men of earlier troopships. But the closing of the hotels did not keep some of the

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