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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 27, 1915
Page
3
A fragmented Cairns page reports visits and movements of residents and dignitaries including Mr Weir Atherton and Mr J Newell, with mentions of attendance by Mr A Kennett and Mr Turmer Redlynch. Advertisements promote Tone cleaners and tonic wine, plus hair treatment. The Morinda is due from Papuan ports and tailoring services advertise at Abbott Street.
A wartime essay laments German cruelty noting gas attacks and atrocities in Belgium and France. It depicts German aggression as brutal and satanic, provoking British outrage and calls for harsher measures against Germans in Britain.
Reports from Mackay and Finch district show cane crops maturing slowly with some promising growth. A local police case described a man from Bowen with two children, drinking led to family distress and a Salvation Army attendance. The Belgian Relief Fund planned further donations while the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union prepares a Brisbane expedition to White Clay Island and eastward reefs.
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