No One Is Immune

In my innocence I actually believed that soldiers had some immunity from gossip. I have been enlightened by this open letter published in the Hobart Gazette of June 14, 1918. The writer, who (if I understand correctly) is a soldier who had been wounded in action, pleads with the gossips of Hobart to stop putting "pro-German sentiments" and other unpatriotic words into his mouth.


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How a Canadian ended up in Hobart, of all places, I have no clue. [insert joke about the "Canada" part of Hobart]