■‘A small expedition will, I understand,” writes the London correspondent of the Daily Dispatch, ‘‘leave this country shortly with a view of exploring the south-west coast of Australia. Great secrecy is observed about the object of the journey, but the leader of the party has information about a tribe of pigmies who live underground in that district. Fantastic though it may sound* scientists are agreed that a subterranean colony exists in South-west Australia. There is evidence, also, from recent discoveries in chalk and limestone of small bones, that tiny human beings, with partly webbed fingers and toes live, or a least have lived, far below the surface in caves needing very little air.”
German sheep stocks are reputed to have increased by 13 per cent, since the beginning of the war. The 1914 census showed 5,400,000 at the close of 1919 the number was -estimated at 6,100,000 head.
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 605, 4 February 1921, Page 6
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