“NOT DEFACED”
CAMEL CORPS MEMORIAL. LONDON COMEDY. London, Oct. 25 An Australian in London startled officialdom by reporting that the Camel Corps monument had been defaced by black daubs, which, he said, obliterated the tribute to the corps’ deeds and the list of battles in which it had been engaged. It was suggested that the High Commissioner, Sir Granville Ryrie, should protest against the sacrilege. The discoverer suggested that the defacement was an aftermath of the recent Dardanelles controversy. The representative of “The Sun” found a workman cleaning the monument, and asked who was responsible for the “outrage.” The workman uproariously replied: “I was responsible. People complained that the inscription could not be read against the stonework, so I was told to fill in the lettering with black cement. It will now outlast the monument itself.
“There were smudges; naturally, but now they have been washed off.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 14 November 1927, Page 8
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147“NOT DEFACED” Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 14 November 1927, Page 8
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