THE TALE OF A PIPE
INCIDEN AT TOBRUK
SHORTAGE OF TOBACCO
Tlic story began in Tobruk, where smoking Avas a luxury. First cigarettes r&n out and then cigarette tobacco, and one Digger, not until then interested in pipe smoking, scrounged the parts of a pipe and cobbled them together with string and sticking plaster. Then- he drew an issue of pipe tobacco and went on his way rejoicing. The result was so weird and wonderful that it attracted the attention of a news photographer and the picture was published far and wide 1 . Many months later after the Dig-, ger had returned to Australia, a parcel was delivered to him, the picture forming part of the. address. lit contained a stubby little fat-bowled, pipe with a glistening meerschaum mouthpiece and 20 2oz packets of tobacco. The only legend was the name and address of a resident of Ne.w York, to which was added: "Sci;ag 'em. Digger."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 67, 27 April 1943, Page 6
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156THE TALE OF A PIPE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 67, 27 April 1943, Page 6
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