10 Mar 1919
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 10, 1919
Page
1
The British airship R43, the largest in the country, started buoyancy and speed testing yesterday in London. It measures 670 feet in length with two million feet of cable capacity and a weight of 60 tons, powered by 1250 horsepower across five engines.
Advertises Straight Talk Bee wel ointment as a universal skin cure for eczema acne and other diseases. Claims marvellous long term results by drawing pus and reducing inflammation. Sold by W A Meinife Co Brisbane and locally via Robert Craig Cairns and W A Collins Chemists.
Paris reports the Committee of Tents studying conditions for Austro-Hungary food supply as current aid proves inadequate. Although routes into Austria are blocked by the Brenner Pass closure following Jeugesliv-Kalan incidents, Vienna suffers days without food.
London dispatch reports Bolshevism as Poland's chief peril amid near starvation and ruined industry. A Kremlin council debated continuation of war with Entente, Trotsky noting famine and plague. Lenin urged a second Brest Litovsk style settlement to lull opponents before a decisive onslaught.
Fifteen veterans gathered to form a sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia in a Balramsay meeting. Mrs Grogan chaired, Sergeant Fred Mazlin attended as district organiser and officers were elected including vice president Hodel and secretary J Johnson.
Fragmentary ad copy touts Rexon antiseptic with claimed offensive qualities and recommends trying the product. It mentions a price of 1/6 and 3/-. Availability implied but details are unclear.
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