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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 17, 1915
Page
2
American journalist John Reed reports from Bavarian batteries in trench warfare near a canal. German gunners coordinate via telephone with a trench-bound telephonist while French Taube planes loom, and Bavarian officers recount morale and beer as essential.
An excerpt describes a night raid where soldiers move through darkness under shellfire. The group, including an officer, communicates in fragmentary French and German while navigating to a trench with stretcher-bearing figures moaning on a crude path amid rockets and rifle fire, seeking a password.
Official figures from the Electoral Department show Jennings 3850 votes and Wilson 3701 with two small returns pending. Absentee votes number 68 awaiting scrutiny after yesterday’s poll.
Sir Joseph Ward states that dissolution rests with the Crown and not the Opposition. The Governor-General would not force another election while other means to secure a stable government were exhausted. The Prime Minister confirms loyalty of Mr Henare to the Reform Party. The exchange underscores cross-party support in a tense imperial crisis.
An Irish lecture sets forth the kidney causal chain and a medicine cure claim. Mrs J Webb of Timaru testifies that Doan's Backache Kidney Pills relieved long standing kidney trouble, backache, and dropsical swelling after twelve months of use. The ad urges immediate kidney protection and provides Foster-McClellan Co. contact details.
Claim that Chamberlains Cough Remedy subdues bronchial inflammation and eases breathing by aiding expectoration. Advertises soothing healing, supports the body against future attacks, endorsed by chemists and storekeepers.
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