Starving Belgians appeal prompts Australia aid drive
In Sydney newspapers a full text appeal urges Australia and New Zealand to donate bread for starving Belgians, seeking £73,000 a month to feed them for two days. The piece highlights 1,400,000 Belgians destitute and notes daily queues for relief as readers are urged to contribute money, stock, or produce to the war relief effort.
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Australia
New Zealand
France
England
Belgium
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Bombala News and Notes Highlights Local Events
Local notices report scholarships awarded to Stanley Norris and Delia Paxton at Bega High School, a ministry vacancy due to a death, and donations to the war relief fund. Obituaries note Mrs. Summerill and Mr. Woods. The Castlereagh seat remains Labor, while Grampians by election shifts. Community notices cover sheep dogs, wood chopping, show entries, theatre bookings, and a Dickens film Nicholas Nickleby. Red Cross funds supported by recent picture shows with profits to the war effort.
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Delia Paxton
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Ladies College of Health Address and Hours Notice
The Ladies College of Health in Sydney lists hours from 9 pm Fridays and from 10 am to 2 pm Saturdays. All inquiries should be addressed to Fintundent Capt. 100 Health at 54 Oxford Street.
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Bombala
Comino Brothers Expand Fish Supply to Twice Weekly
The Comino Brothers begin supplying trwsi fish twice weekly on Wednesdays and Fridays. The Dubbo Partners and Settlers' Association has passed a resolution urging Parliament to revert to a salary of £300 a year until war and drought end.
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Comino Brothers
Dubbo Partners and Settlers’ Association
British ships torpedoed as war warns ashore off Holyhead
War report from Lexpox cites multiple submarine attacks on unarmed trading vessels. The British steamer Cambank, 3172 tons, was sunk off Holyhead with four drowned after a periscope sighting 200 yards away. The Norwegian Belridge was torpedoed, its crew saved, and several other ships faced torpedoing or mine strikes. Crew refusals to sail increased among Danish and Swedish vessels.
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Belridge
England
Chinese Soldiers Outbreak Reported in Pekin Theater
Reports from Pekin say soldiers under General Chang-Shun ran wild in Nankin wrecking a theatre and spitting on a European lady. An Englishman was stoned in another town. The disturbance is believed to be financed by Germany.
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Cairo correspondent taunts Berlin paper on Egypt odds
A Cairo correspondent for the Berlin newspaper Thgliche Tundschau sends a cautionary note to his editors claiming conquest of Egypt is easy with 700,000 British troops. He praises Australians as large, well paid, but notes many hold private means and that nonvolunteers lose property portions.
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Egypt
Shelling of MLS liner near Plymouth and wartime bombardments
Reports recount an armed merchantman firing at the P and W liner MLS Maley en route from Australia to Tendon, escaping to Plymouth with General Bill Leslie Rundle aboard. Zeppelin air raids on Calais caused two houses to fall and five casualties, while Guxhaven reports two submarines overdue. The Dardanelles bombardment signals potential serious operations, and geopolitics center on Odessa access and Constantinople’s fall. The Goeben is damaged, and Allied reprisals against Germany are debated amid Dutch tensions over submarine campaigns. The American steamer Evelyn was sunk near Borkum, carrying cotton. wreckers’ toll rises.
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German submarine fails to hit Folkestone Boulogne liner
War dispatches report a German submarine missed the Folkestone Boulogne passenger steamer by thirty yards Monday night. The Norwegian steamer Tegin, 1844 tons, bound for Bordeaux with coil, was torpedoed off Dover and sank in ten minutes. crew saved by a British destroyer. A Zeppelin bombed Calais. homes damaged. a railway station strike killed and injured civilians. Petrograd says Russian forces won several clashes, capturing villages and prisoners in Galicia and Smolnik area as Austrians retreated with heavy losses.
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Daily Chronicle
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World War I Battlefield Updates and Attacks
Fragments report East Prussia regiments breaking through enemy lines to rejoin troops amid continuous German attacks along the front. Reinforcements reach Bukovina. Prussia andSyrol frontier focus. Seminar bombardment kills Austrian officers. Maritime and air actions include torpedoed British ships Harpalion and Deptford, Gulf of West Africa air raid, and a German train derailment with casualties. Extensive looting and mutilations cited, copper ware seized at Rotterdam.
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Harpalion
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Gurnb
German West Africa
Shaw
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Rotterdam
Government to permit wheat exhibits at country shows
The Attorney-General stated the government will not interfere with those wishing to exhibit wheat at country shows. Under the Wheat Act the wheat in the state belongs to the King, but nominal owners need not fear government claims on prizes. Farmers should apply to the Wheat Acquisition Board secretary for necessary release.
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