Todd war diary, 3 August 1914-29 February 1916 / Arthur Todd - Page 139
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[Page 139]
The Consul General didnt want then and told us he let them gather in his office expecting orders as to their disposal which needless to say never came. It was quite by accident that we discovered their whereabouts.
It was curious that our mail should be in America as we were threatened with all manner of dreadful penalties if we dare send a letter home across America (which was easily the shortest route) as it might fall into the hands of the Huns and reveal the great international secret to with the presence of the Sydney in Northern waters.
Our mails were one great muddle from first to last. The Melbourne which followed us over most of the world always had letters from Australia a month or so later in date than we.
Another example of parochial injustice of which the writer makes a free present to the local press.
Still it was most annoying for nothing makes the Sailor man abroad so tired as absence of