Word: australian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Program I. Gloria in Excelsis Palestrina The Three Kings Romeu The Wall of Heaven O Saviour Rend (Motet) Brahms II. Fum! Fum! Fum (Catalonian Folk-song) arranged by Schindler Australian Up-Country Song Percy Grainger Now is the Month of Maying Morley Wassail Song arranged by Vaughan Williams III. Sing Ye to the Lord Bach IV. Divendres Sant Nicolau The Island Rachmaninoff Irish Tune From County Derry Percy Grainger Hymn to Raphael the Divine Bossi...
...area Australia is almost exactly the size of the United States. Her entire population is a little less than that of New York City. To defend this enormous area, the Australian conscription law provided that boys must register at the age of 14, that those physically able must serve as citizen soldiers between the age of 17 and 21, must drill two hours weekly, attend camp one week each summer for field instruction. There is no regular army. A skeleton force of 1,582 instructors is retained as a "permanent" army. To defend the continent last year there were just...
...entire matter of Australian Defense will be reviewed with military officials with a view to adopting a more satisfactory and more efficient system...
...Australian officers wagered that the result will be the creation of a small Regular Army like Canada's (circa...
...National Guard, whose training is slightly more severe than that of the Australian conscripts, numbered...