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<p>[Page 105]</p><p>15th/7/18.<br />A local newspaper yesterday published the biggest slander yet against not only the Germans, but German women in particular. It was an excerpt from the letter of a German governess who used to live in England: [original in English] </p><p>"You will be interested to hear I am officially pregnant, the fate of many girls in Germany to day, who are unmarried." [end English quote]</p><p>Newspaper writers must have an incredibly low opinion of the Australian people's cultural level to dare dishing out such crap. Then again, it shouldn't come as a surprise since they seem to have no concept of right and wrong, otherwise they wouldn't have been so shameless as to run the following report about their own countrymen: [original in English]</p><p>"An Australian souvenir collector complained that these were the poorest lot of Fritzes [nickname for German soldiers, but in this context it may rather be used for German helmets or other parts of a German soldier's outfit] he had ever encountered, and that he had gone through 50 and failed to get a match. Upon this a group of Yanks each produced a good souvenir, and the Australian saw that the lack of souvenirs</p>