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"The Australians soon felt that they had good reason to hate the body line bowlers. Woodfull the Australian captain, and Oldfield, the wicket-keeper. who ranked mot far below Don Bradman in the hearts of the Australian people, fell victims tothe head-hunters...."
The Australian Board of Control sent a protest to the Marylebone Cricket Club, Australian Protest The Australian Board of Control sent a protest to the Marylebone Cricket Club.
"The Australian rebels were answered; Bodyline is neither permitted nor forbidden, there is nothing about it in the rules, Nor are there any regulations to direct where the bowler should aim, nor where the fieldsman should stand."
"When the answer came through, the Continent of Australia became a veritable voleano....'Al right then. England can get her cricket opponents, along with her wool, from South Africa—we prefer even letting the wool sales go to having the lives of our heroes endangered any longer, with the Marylebone Cricket Club adding its insults to injury.'
"One morning Sydney's statue of Albert the Good, husband of Queen Victoria. was found damaged, The culprits had painted on the base the one word 'Bodyline' and had flung a stone at the head of the Prince Consort.
"Imperial Britaip, experienced in handling rebellions, found a way out. Bodyline was not forbidden by Cabinet decree, but it was suggested to the Marylebone Cricket Club that body line could no longer be played in international matches, and that Larwood and Voce had better go sick, "In order, however, that Australia should not imagine that she had 1 obliged the captain of England, a Gentleman, to stand in the corner like a bad boy, enviously watching 1 the game go on, Mr. Jardine's depar-3 ture was otherwise accounted for "Reuter: cabled that Mr, Jo had been invited to hunt tige in India, and had therefore begged to be excused from playing against the Austrafians, and that the M.C.C. after lengthy consideration, had regretfully agreed that the skipper must have his holiday-"The Australians chalked this up roadway a few feet away. The correspondent hurriedly took to cover, Afterwards he found a brass cap which appeared to have come from a four-inch anti-aircraft shell.
"When the planes disappeared after releasing their loads, there was a tense quietness broken 15 minutes later when three more planes approached in formation and were greeted with heavy anti-aircraft fire—Reuter, The solitary Chinese plane brought down crashed into a farmer's dwelling west of the Peiping-Hankow Railway, The pilot iously injured.
Thousands of curious persons thronged to the scene of the disaster and looked with interest on the picture—two green wings protruding from a typical mud-walled, straw-thatched hut, in the middle of a cabbage field.
A bomb intended for the aerodrome struck and destr Which formerly Japanese.
No bombs were dropped at chang, across the river from Hankow,—Reuter, One anti-airerait shell fell in the street in front of Reuter's office and exploded, slightly wounding two Chinese.
A missile also struck a macadamised roadway a few feet from a coffin containing a corpse, being taken {for burial. When the alarm sounded, the coffin was dumped in the roadway.
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