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Newspaper

Cairns Post

Location

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Date

Nov 24, 1917

Page

4

Warwick Handicap accepts racing names listed in report

Sydney Nov 23 Warwick Handicap listing horses Kenilera Sweet Coen Tosson Ballam Flambard Crozet Clovered Biszing Hot Treatady Maid Scalen da Rallaway Esteban Chain Light. Brisbane Nov 23 latest betting on Sandgate road racing scene with Lordacre and Everkeane among others.

Sydney Kenilera Sweet Coen Tosson Ballam Flambard Treatady Maid Rallaway Esteban Chain Lightabore Kenilera 4 Ciear Tressady Maid Brisbane Sandgate Lordacre G Resem Everkeane Sir Syce Oreate

Cairn Rifle Club final shoots amid mirage and delays

Ten members of the Cairn Rifle Club competed in the Overland photography final. The day was favorable for shooting though some scores suffered from a six hundred yard mirage. Prizes included cash shoots and the Collin trophy. Later reports describe pursuit, weather, and police actions on Mornington Island with multiple arrests.

Ahove Club Melotyre H. Melpeyre Basteaty Spe Manon Roe You Steck W. Barre Capt Lyon Mann Collins” Trophy

Church Services in Gordonvale This Sunday

Mass will be celebrated at Gordonvale tomorrow at 7 and 9 pm. Mr McLeod from Edmonton visited Cairns yesterday.

Gordonvale Mr. McLeod Edmonton Cairns

Admission Silver Coin At Austral and Palace Tonight

Evening cinema listings describe two venues in Cairns. At Austral the star film Sims of the Parents in five parts, plus episode 14 of Liberty, a comedy, and other shorts. matinee for children. At Palace Pictures a Metro photo play Threads of Fate starring Viola Dana in five parts, plus two comedies Kidding Sister and Dick as a Match Maker, with the popular prices and advice to reserve seats.

Austral Sims Sim Cairns Hiram Palace Pictures Palace Theatre Taagement Metro Viola Dana Rty

Commissions executed at major races and Brisbane events

Peter Young and Ted Holland advertise NQRAs commissions for Government Licensed Courses and racing events including Villiers Summer Cup Doncaster Sydney Cup and Brisbane meetings. Contact Holland Cairns Box 2 or Edw Bosanko mechanical engineer and gunsmith Applin Street for bicycle inquiries and prices.

Doncaster Brisbane Holland Cairns Bosanko APLIN Nat F-Ora Spence Street Villiers Bemcaster

Valor of Guillaume in German trench action earns mother’s pride

Reports from the front describe M Henry Wood’s correspondent recounting a French assault where Corporal Guillaume and his assistant halt a German machine gun nest. Amid heavy fire Guillaume moves, disables weapons, and leads a successful breakthrough before allied troops reach the position. a comrade is killed, and the action ends with German surrender.

Henry Wood Ahen Vuillamnce Nealy Checkoms Villanene Villaume Monnet Vuilbeeves Voillanme Vierillaume Tm Lat Arl Vouillur Veritamme

Fourth Winter War and Pursuit of Murderers Near Mission

Police return from Mor mngton Island to Burketown confront a large group of excited blacks near the mission. Peter and accomplices are hunted in mangrove swamps. Peter and the murderers are captured amid rapid pursuit by officers and friendly locals. A Central News dispatch discusses fear of a fourth winter of war in Germany and related Allied diplomacy. The radio notes theatrical offerings at Cairns Theatre with Miss Dora Obertman and Mile. Olette in ballet and a Russian plot titled The Sixteenth Wife, with seats at Whittick's.

Ted Theems Denham Ae Tne Comstal Oo Lroydon Constable Clarke Morning Star Lee Jimmy Friendte Bli Peter Jimny Melbidir Mornington I Burketown Inn Dir Gure Geerthtavec Mornington Island Jennings Sergean Scanten Ump Scrwevm Stanton Gardner Geneva Munchener Post Staud Germany Rome Irom Kentucky Peecy Hyland Marc MacDermott Cairns Mile Olette Petromrad Virter Kaair E! Raschoud Dora Oberman Whittick’s

What a Proclamation Led To

Austrian court accounts described in Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung argue for a general amnesty. A September 1914 case notes a young clerk who mailed a letter containing a page and tral Rennekampf to her uncle, dropped on Austrian lines from a Russian launcher. She received 10 years penal servitude. The war proclamation era saw a schoolboy tried, with a broad range of sentences. total sentences included six capital sentences and 91 years in penal servitude.

Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung

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