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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 12, 1917
Page
2
Passenger lists show Mmex Cheetly with children Rowitt and daughter Greenhalgh and child Resell F W Crain C H Day Lyle JH Fawcet A KE Jameson Wo Burnett C Murphy F.
Joy Cockwownod resumes repertoires at Lecinla Print while Aranme sails south on Adeledts Campy. Lame Parnes departs for the south midweek with freestops and Lied Lass o Gowrie wines from Towns ville via ports on Wednesday.
Town Cairns brief: West's International Circus shows at Tarrali with next stops around Tableland towns. Major Knapp and Cadet Lo Kapp attend a soloist meeting. Local items report wounded soldier Henry Ernest Harrison and Tumoulin death of Private William Nicholas Harris. Ambulance benefit, Chillagoe Railway Office robbery, and diary notes from D Turner.
Local items include Gordonvale Swimming Club meeting notices and Cairns Town Council’s monthly session. War era news covers Pte. J Murchison’s hospital admission, Babinda shop shifts, Buick car popularity, and political commentary on Kerensky and Korniloff amid tumult.
Fragmentary OCR text shows garbled references to Cairns and dates with unreadable terms. No coherent event or names to establish a reliable summary.
A garbled excerpt discusses an artistic Shane powder product and family mistreatment claims. The text mentions softness and delight but lacks clear events, dates, or identifiable organizations to confirm a concrete news item.
Pressing Seccom The Misses Toll and Harbord organised a successful function for charity. Burns, Philp and Co. donated bringing the total to £62 6s. The ladies praise the effort as creditable. A Gordonvale meeting led by Mr A Draper followed.
The Courier reports a wreath on the Premier's doorstep led to a caucus clash over alleged misrepresentation by Wi ft Hartley. The Premier said the episode was not creditable to involved members and noted Mr Vowles claimed Mr Ryan's card was on the wreath.
German sources note Keren sky arrest while others say he headed for the front to rally troops against revolutionaries. Petrograd reports describe Leninist conspiracy led by Trotsky amid clashes in Petrograd where armed workers and rifles appear, with deaths and disarray. Kerensky urges firm action as Leninites establish committees. Cossacks and Kharkoff garrison show support, while arrests and suppressions unfold across Russia.
Paris dispatch reports the Kushbian Cossacks and Ukrainian mountain peoples have proclaimed a separate republic to be integrated as an autonomous state within a Russian confederation. They seized estates and chose Colonel Felemenoff as president. A Don Cossack government in Resse is reportedly preparing a preliminary Parliament.
The article outlines a split in the Russian revolution with Lenin and Trotsky backed by the Kronstadt and Helsingfors elements and Kerensky aligned forces including the army officers, Black Sea Fleet, merchants, and professionals. It notes peasantry as an unknown factor and predicts civil war to decide power, while Trotsky’s exile and return are described along with his antiwar activities and influence in Petrograd.
In Petrograd on a recent Wednesday Bolsheviks demanded Kerensky concede within 20 minutes. When refused they opened cannon fire from Petropavlovsk fort and the cruiser Aurora, striking the Winter Palace and key railway sites and telegraph stations.
German troops loaded in the Aalas islands occupy group 1 area. Terreana claim capture of Melsingfors the capital of Finland. Austro-Germans report capture of Asiago in Italy.
A new inter allied council or overall western front is established. General Foch leads France, General Henry Wilson heads England, Count Cadorna serves fully. General Dian succeeds Cadorna as Italian commander in chief.
A few thousands of a division cut off from the main body at Monte Festa and Monte San Simone between the Tagliamento and Lake Cavizzo held out until Wednesday. Their artillery and ammunition were exchanged on Tuesday and after destroying their defensive works they attempted to break the encircling army massed at the bayonet point. Superior manpower overwhelmed them, but the rear-guard action aided the main body's borderly retreat.
Haig says forces attacked northern positions as weather remained wet and stormy. Washington reports French and British rushing heavy artillery from the west toward Italy amid ongoing war activity.
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