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[Page 527]

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Australians in the disrespectful manner of the cutting I annex, giving an extract from an article by Maximilian Harden in "Zukuuft"!!

Mother & I went to the meeting at the Town Hall to celebrate the beginning of the fifth year of the War. Things are certainly looking better than they have been since the first Battle of the Marne in September 1914, but I don't believe in prophesying until I know.

Eileen seems to think that Mother & I are enchanted with some new flats being fitted up in Macleay Villas, Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth Bay, & she writes as if she is already the proud possessor of one of them. In the first place the flats are still in the hands of the builders, & secondly I hope she will not rush them as I should think it not very difficult to get as least as good accommodation, if not better, for the £3/3/0 a week she is now ready to pay.

We wish she would bring Peter back here for a while longer, but she gives no sign, & of course we do not ask her to leave Collaroy.

Good bye, & God bless you, & don't think me too hard an old father for what I have said in the other letter. You may be sure that if I could have seen my way to do it I would have preferred to fall in with your own views.

Your loving father
Thomas Hughes.

 

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