AUSTRALIAN EXPLORER
BIRTLES’S TOUR OF ENGLAND.
LONDON, August 30. The Australian explorer, Francis Birtles, arrayed like a sundowner, smothered in Australian mud, and carrying kangaroo and cockatoo mascots,' attracted a large crowd outside Australia House before bis departure on an extended tour of England. Birtles humorously observed that he was “ going up country to study English tribes,” and expected to get a good view of the sun at Alanchester.
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Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 2
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69AUSTRALIAN EXPLORER Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 2
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