To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cinka Daly News"
StI have been much intrigued recently in listening to the news in English broadcast from Rome, It is suiven out by a gentleman with one of the most excruciating Australian accents T have heard in many.a long day. As an instance of the accent, T might mention the following item his commentary a few nights azo which will give all Australians the angle:
The Ialian Navy will take the Fanean from the "dotnina sau Put that sentence into the mouth of a real larrakin and you have It.
He also gave details of an Italian attack upon a British convoy in the Red Sea in which a cruiser of the Sydney class had been damaged—a rather unfortunate choice of class under the circumstances, Be that as may, we have an ever-present ample of the relentless grip of the Royal Navy right before our eyes, As long as a certain large liner, (no names, no pack drill—the enemy has ears) remains moored pathetically 10 her buoys in this river, just s0 long will T remain convinced that British sea power is still paramount, The real purpose of this letter, though, is to ask the local Australian community if-any of them have any information which would lead to the identity of the gentleman from Rome, He couldn't be a renegade Australian but for all that, there wasn't event trace of the Tialian tongue in his delivery. At the moment, T' (col convinced that he is the Australian-born son of Ttalian parents who pro: bably had to leave their own country fon "account of political and/or economic oppression, as a. result of which the son had been able to grow ina. free atmosphere, Tt is pos sible that he was on a visit to Taly hod been caught there by the Mahan entry into, the war. In any case, he seems to have been ce-opted into' a. vile propagandist service order to blackguard the only people who save him a real chance in lif. Can anyone help in placing him Shanghai, Oct. 28
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.