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Show Miss Mildred Judd Visits In St. George After Being In Australia Miss Mfldred Judd, daughter of Pres. and Mrs. James Judd of the L.D.S. Australian Mission, arrived in St. George last Thursday Thurs-day evening to visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. J. Milne, after 28 months absence. She visited visit-ed two days with Mr. and Mrs. Finley Judd in Hurricane before coming to St. George. Although she has visited all of the Australian Austra-lian states during her absence, she has spent most of her time at the L.D.S. mission headquarters in Sydney, where she has also attended at-tended the University of Sydney for one year. Returning with her on the voyage voy-age was her sister, Mrs. Max Warner, of Provo, who has been visiting her parents in Australia for two months. Mrs. Warner was met at Los Angeles by her husband hus-band when they docked on the Matson liner Mariposa, July 8, and came on to Provo. Miss Judd remaind three weeks to visit with friends. Asked about present day conditions condi-tions in Australia, Miss Judd states that the European conflict is affecting everything. Mail arrives ar-rives slowly and letters are censored. cen-sored. Prices on all commodities are rising. When asked for exports from England that have been available previously, merchants will answer "I don't know" shipping ship-ping is so uncertain. And the rationing of gasoline began August (Continued on page eight) Mildred Judd (Continued from first page) 1. This is considered the most hampering measure, but is apparently ap-parently quite essential since Australia gets all of her gasoline from other centers. The announcement that Italy had joined Germany caused an abrupt action by the citizens against all Italian fruit stand operators, bakeries and lunch ocunters in Sydney. Stands were ransacked, shops wrecked and forced to close says Miss Judd, even though many of the owners were naturalized citizens of long standing and in sympathy with Great Britian and the allies. Street riots became intense. They were disappointed on the return voyage not to be able to make the usual stopover at New Zealand, but the sinking of the Niagara by a mine two days before be-fore the Mariposa sailed made this prohibitive. Single day visas were issued for the stops at Fiji, Samoa and Hawaii, and these under restrictions. Australian military training camps are keeping 80,000 conscripted con-scripted youth under training constantly. con-stantly. Three months of intensive training are given, to be followed by a furlough of three months when they return to the camps if they have not already been assigned assign-ed to actual duty. Already thousands thou-sands of soldiers have been sent to British possesions, mostly to Palestine, and other thousands constitute the home guard. The streets of Sydney, once full of citizens, are now bristling with military uniforms. "Previously", states Miss Judd, "we could travel about Australia quite unrestricted, but with the outbreak of war all aliens were required to register at assigned police stations and be finger printed and photographed, and if making even a short trip from one city to another must report to the police station and obtain a traveling travel-ing permit. War had not been going on a month before these restrictions were enforced, and now new arrivals are registered before they leave the ships". As everywhere else she notes the talk is all of the present war and its possible outcome. Until recently, additional groups of L.D.S. missionaries were arriving regularly, but the last four arrived ar-rived at Sydney in May and there are to be no additional workers sent until hostilities are over, it is understood. Asked how it seemed to be back in the United States, she did not hesitate to make plain it was a very desirable feeling, although she has great respect for the Australian people and has made many friends there. She has no idea when her parents and brother, Mack, may be released from their mission, since their time may be extended due to present conditions condi-tions and restrictions against sending out more missionaries. She plans to attend the B.Y.U. this year. |