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Title: The Sequel
What the Great War will mean to Australia

Author: George A. Taylor

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Language: English

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THE SEQUEL

WHAT THE GREAT WAR WILL MEAN
TO AUSTRALIA.

Being the Narrative of "Lieutenant Jefson, Aviator."

By

GEORGE A. TAYLOR.

First Edition, June. 1915.
2nd Edition. July. 1915.

Printed and Published by Building Limited.
17 Grosvenor Street. Sydney,
Australia.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

1910.--"The Air Age and its Military Significance."

1911.--"The Highway of the Air and the Military Engineer."

1913.--"The Balkan Battles." How Bad Roads Lost a War.

1913.--"The Schemers." (A Story.)

1913.--"Songs for Soldiers."

1914.--"Town Planning for Australia."

"Ah! when Death's hand our own warm hand hath ta'en
Down the dark aisles his sceptre rules supreme,
God grant the fighters leave to fight again
And let the dreamers dream!"
--Ogilvie.

PREFACE

These are mighty days.

We stand at the close of a century of dazzling achievement; a century
that gave the world railways, steam navigation, electric telegraphs,
telephones, gas and electric light, photography, the phonograph, the
X-ray, spectrum analysis, anaesthetics, antiseptics, radium, the
cinematograph, the automobile, wireless telegraphy, the submarine and
the aeroplane!

Yet as that brilliant century closed, the world crashed into a war to
preserve that high level of human development from being dragged back to
barbarism.

And how the scenes of battle change!

Cities are being smashed and ships are being torpedoed. Thousands of
lives go out in a moment. And these tremendous tragedies pass so swiftly
that it is risky to write a story round them carrying any touch of
prophecy. I, therefore, attempt it, r