DOMINION TROOPS
LONELINESS IN ENGLAND LONDON PAPER’S SUGGESTION (United Tress Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Aug 16 “Not sufficient is being done to entertain Dominion troops in London,” says the Daily Telegraph, which points out that to Australians the 12,000-mile journey is a great adventure, after which they hope for friendly contacts. “ Not every Australian yearns to spend his leave in visiting St. Paul’s and the Tower, or formally taking tea,” the paper adds. “ He wants to meet people, to dance, to see shows and films, to talk about himself and his family, and generally to enjoy himself. The extent to which he fails in this can be measured by the number of Dominion troops walking about the streets, lonely and rather bored.
“ Thousands of English people, if encouraged by Australia House and other Dominions’ representatives to ( do so, would be glad to list their names in order to offer these men companionship and informal hospitality. The experiment would be worth trying.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19400817.2.55
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
162DOMINION TROOPS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in