SYDNEY--A woman who beggedin the street to, pay her children's
train fares to the country, sang a song about Russia
as she left the court-room at Central Police Court,
The woman, Mrs. May Allen, 49, of Lower Campbell Street,
Sydney, was charged with ' having placed herself in, Market
Street on November 11 to gather alms.
--Mrs: Allen said, her two children were going fruit-picking
in the country for their school holidays, but she was short
of 8/6 for their railway fares.
"I do not draw my widow's pension until Tuesday," she
added. "That is too late to buy the train tickets, so I went
down town to play the mouth-organ, I wasn't begging."
Mr. Mahony, SM, found the case proved, but dismissed
the charge. The song Mrs. Allen sang as she left the court
ran:--
"If only I could stow away on a Soviet ship one day,--
I'd dance and sing, I'd give my fling, To be a Russian, girl."
Notes
From the Queensland Newspaper The Evening Advocate 29 Dec 1942 Page 2.
With the Nazi's on the run from allied troops in late 1942 this report offers a tongue in cheek dismissal by the magistrate Mr. Mahony, SM
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