Todd war diary, 3 August 1914-29 February 1916 / Arthur Todd - Page 300
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[Page 300]
CHAPTER 8.
The Sydney as Flagship
Though so much at sea and away from bases, we still contrived to get news of the outside world, for all along the coast there are big shore stations which dole out news each night to passing ships. Nearly every morning the printed press news was on the breakfast table, and the tidings which were beginning to filter through from the Dardanelles were eagerly read. Once or twice when further north we had heard the Australia bellowing across the Isthmus from the Pacific side, and many and bitter were the curses which arose from the American stations at the interference with their work. The shore stations are so arranged that one does not drown or jam the other, and all get their messages through in comfort. But when the Australia came with her powerful plant and shouted at all hours over land and sea, our American cousins became wrathful, and we often heard their rather amusing comments. - "Say, old guy, do you think you have bought up all God's atmosphere?" - "For heaven's sake get off your darned old keyboard!" - These and other less printable things were add-