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300,000 greet men of HMAS Sydney. Stirring scenes in street march. Great celebration ends. Sydney,

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Unique IDA-00276727SeriesNewsclippings BooksDate12th February 1941FormatNewscuttingDescription300,000 greet men of HMAS Sydney. Stirring scenes in street march. Great celebration ends. Sydney, Tuesday. - the most extraordinary mass demonstration seen in any city in Australia since the war began followed the march of the men of HMAS Sydney through the city streets to-day. Crowds estimated at more than 300,000 tightly packed every street along the march. (Photo. Alderman SS Crick, Sydney's Lord Mayor, yesterday unveiled a plaque on HMAS Sydney given by Sydney citizens to commemorate the ship's gallant fight in which the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni was sunk. Captain Collins is on the left. Photo. Members of the crew of HMAS Sydney, sun-tanned under the Mediterranean sun, paraded yesterday in their neat, white uniforms on the deck of their vessel.) (Argus)LanguageEnglish (eng)

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300,000 greet men of HMAS Sydney. Stirring scenes in street march. Great celebration ends. Sydney,