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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 162, 5 April 1921, Page 5

The Federal Minister for Home and Territories has expressed the opinion that in its collection of official battle photographs Australia possessed a pictorial record of the war which equalled, if it did not surpass, that acquired by any of the other nations that participated in the conflict. "Some idea of the comprehensive na’.lnro of the collection, nnd of its interest,” Mr. Boynton said recently, "will be gained when it is stated that the number of negatives held by the Australian War Museum totals 211.090, in which are represented battle scenes taken actually during Iho fighting in every campaign in which the A.T.F. participated, excellent views of devastated towns and villages in Franco and Belgium which faithfully portray tho terrible havoc wrought by yearn of fighting, photographs of training camps in England and -elsewhere, group photognaps of nearly every A.1.1-'. unit, and wonderful pictures of the Holy I,and campaign.” A Canadian water weed, which spread so rapidly that in a few years it had choked up streams and rivers, is said to have been introduced into Britain on tlhra feet of migrant wading birds.

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