AUSTRALIA COMPLAINS
N.Z. TROOPS GET MOST PUBLICITY A.I.F. ALMOST IGNORED Because of excellent publicity carried out by New Zealand officials, English people had come to regard New Zealand troops as the new Anzacs, said Miss B. d'Alpuget, a Sydney journalist who has arrived in Melbourne after 16 months' abroad. Most things done by the New Zealanders in Egypt were being widely publicised, but there was hardly a reference to the A.I.F. in London newspapers; It had made her Australian blood boil, yet no protest had been entered by Australian officials when news papers devoted columns to Mr Anthony Eden's visit to the New Zealand camp in Egypt, and made only brief reference to his visit to the Australians, Miss d'Alpuget was one of three British passengers on a Dutch freighter half-way across the Atlantic when war broke out. Ihere were a number of Germans on board who "simply gloated" when they heard the news of ihe Athenia's sinking, she said.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 168, 3 June 1940, Page 5
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