THOSE ‘RUSSIAN’ TROOPS
A COCKNEY ACCENT. AYANCANI I, So|>lember 2. Conversing with a "Chronicle” representative. a ladv now la-sident in AA’nnganni related an interesting storv in eonnection with the cubit* message relat.ing to tlu* siipjiosed juissage ot Russian troops through England. The troop trains in (|in‘stion rattled through her holm* town during the whole of one night. Oiio train was held 11 j> at a siding tor some time, and a ladv whose curiosity was aroused 1 lithe carriages with drawn blinds endeavoured io discover who were the passengers. Alter she had been waiting for a while she was rewarded by seeing a head jinked out, mid hy hearing its owner, with an uumistakeahle Cocknev accent, remark: “Get a move
on, ! M Wlumi tho London dailies hinted at train-loads of llnssians who had passed in the night, tile local juijier. which had heard ol the lady s exjieriI'liee. made light ot Russians who spoke with a Cockney accent. Of course the censor did not allow the matter to go further.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1924, Page 1
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