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What an awful pity our people at home do not cease their nursery prattle. Such screed "Anzac's Gallantry" etc. is painful and disgusting to us. Quite 200,000 men in Australia at the present time should be compelled to de-masquerade – leave women to so women's work and themselves don the mans uniform, come here and do a mans duty.

The rotters: by their answer to the referendum they sentence us to be exterminated. To hell with all red-rag extremists – Most of the men here voted, No. Those who voted "no' were invariably the unfortunate un-educated people. I'm awfully glad you were able to see the strength of my Cable, in which I mentioned Conscription. I meant it to get to you a day or so before polling day.

I cannot make out why it is you have not been getting

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