The runaway

Acting Prime Minister Watt speaks of the assumption that the disease now in Australia is the dreaded type that ravaged half the world. He assures us that “the evidence in this direction is by no means conclusive.”
Casual Willy Watt: “Let her rip!”
(Western Mail, Perth, 1919) (Sign between skull and cowcatcher reads “Influenza.”)

Australian flu cartoon

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