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Parliament N.S.Wales

Cranbrook Cottage
Double Bay
Edgecliff, Sydney.

23rd April 1918.

My dear Geoffrey

Your letters dated 19th and 24th Feby., the second one with the account of your great fight on the 21st, came to us by the San Francisco mail about a week ago. This letter goes by the same boat in reply, that is if it goes at all for days, because there is a scare about a German raider being off the coast & very possibly the shipping may be disarranged for a few days. All the ports at Sydney & Newcastle are manned since Saturday last – today is Tuesday – & Eileen tells me that she was told at the Australia Hotel today that passengers who hoped to start for America tomorrow are very uncertain when the mailboat will leave.

There is another mailboat for Canada on Thursday, so that I suppose this letter will get to you sometime or other.

That adventure of yours, when you dived from 13,000 to 7000 feet & then sailed underneath the Hun machine before either of its occupants had time to pull themselves together, is really simply marvellous! I was reading a story in a magazine the other day in which one man said to another that

 

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