The Sequel / What the Great War will mean to Australia

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o us over fields of long-unburied dead. It explained our morbid craving

'plane into the open space. The engine was also

engine spluttering the 'plane climbed over the Marne-Vesle Ridg

t country of the Yser. About twenty-five miles off, near Laon, w

rop'?" Nap shouted to me

ed back, "there's so

et above our rival. Our engine lost its bad temper for a change. Round and round we began to circle like game cocks spoiling for a fight; rising, forgetting, in

a stone fully a thousand feet, making a magnificent volplane, and scurried away

us into range of their 'air-squirts,' and 'Arc

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be communication, for when a man uses bad language he isn't cool enough to pour his sentiments through a pipe. But we were coming down, gliding down on a long angle, with the engine giving a spa

face. Putting his mouth to the tube he sho

to fire and waved back again! Down, down, with Nap working like a fiend at the engine! Down, down to within a few hundred feet of the ground,

waving Germans, past a long line of German troops breakfasting behind the trenches; then back again to try and convince them that we were of their own, then circling around till we reached a

im a tribute from the Squadron Commander-one of t

stunt was a bit

s why they didn't fire on us, as w

of them. But as the song says: 'We're all here, so we're alright.' Some of these days I'm going to invent an apparatus that c

n enemy's flag, you k

rs, and be as lively as ever on the firing line. The Geneva Treaty, that prohibits firing on the Red Cross in time of war, is like any other 'scrap of paper.' I'd wipe out the enemy's hospitals and poison his food supplies. It's an uncivilised idea, I guess, but so is war. What's the difference between tearing out a fellow's 'innards' with a bayonet, and killing him by the gentler way of poisoning his liquor? What's the difference between poisoning the enemy's drinking water and poisoning t

restriction of o

ne opportunity f

tiddly widdly messages, like school kids practising with pickle bottles, when they could use it to guide a balloon loaded with explosives and fitted up with a wireless receiver and a charged cell, so that it could be exploded by a wave when it got over a position or a city. I'