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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 29, 1917
Page
2
Incomplete text lists several personal surnames and given names such as Semen Marneeth Keates and Adele Ca Lill. The fragment references a meeting or grouping labeled Finstonts Bergbman Le Mitre So Taraea but lacks context, dates, roles, or locations to identify a clear event or outcome.
Confusing October report from Brisbane notes relief of trouble around the Deamey Burwah with waterside workers resuming duties after Melbourne load advice. Numerous lines reference ads, campaigns for St Vincent’s Hospital, and a detailed charity drawing with prizes, dates, and participant names, including mentions of Green’s, Abbott-street, and public notices about the Industrial Court registrar.
The piece urges Australians to support the Liberty Loan drive with patriotic fervor. It highlights war loans, savings certificates, and government bonds as ways for citizens to aid the front while remaining unable to enlist due to age or incapacity. It portrays liberty and democracy as reasons to invest, underscores benefits like tax exemptions, and directs readers to banks and savings offices for purchase details.
Report on the Matonga mystery by Captain Cumming. The inquiry by the Savant has been published with determinations on whether the Matonga was lost by internal explosion or engulfed by a seismic wave. Officials note no conclusive trace and consider enemy capture unlikely.
Report describes a demoralising French defeat and German losses as observers note the fragile war effort. It cites press commentary from Volk Zeitung and Frankfurter Zeitung on the impact of the setback and the Government's stance on peace and policy. London dispatches discuss the British reaction and the political crisis surrounding the war cabinet and food shortages.
Feeneh communique states forces attacked a van position between Dreigrachron and Draihan Beigrung and crossed St Janne Beck and Vocerd. They claim to have captured villages with a tank and prisoners, and to have pressed operations along the south bank of the Obe Aisne. The report notes heavy artillery, reorganizing captured positions, and continued enemy pressure to the north of Chasmar.
London dispatch notes October 28 reports hours of fighting along the Ypres line with British and French inpartial action near Gheluvelt Hathal and surrounding sectors. German artillery and attrition are cited as limiting factors while Allied forces claim they checked the advance. prisoners filtering in amid drizzle as the night-time withdrawal continues.
United Press reports men attacked in drizzle over slippery ground. Lowland hogs held reinforced block houses and shell craters as airmen joined the assault. Artillery and machine gun fire supported advances from fortified farms and trenches.
Fragmentary text references Pete Ott and Sere an Se Uta Tete a ne caer ee si Ro overage. Mentions Washington October and gun quantities. Mentions artillery in Hauihulst and nocturnal attacks. No coherent event or clear facts can be established from the readable portion.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a dangerous thrust and a menace linked to a campaign. It references Austro German attack claims, a city or region named Tetonno and Halastera with impaired legibility. The passage is incomplete and contains many garbled phrases.
Fragmented OCR text summarizes German discontent with social unrest and calls for peace as war drags on. It notes increased socialist activity in Berlin and calls for better pay and liberal concessions amid Allied air raids. In Dublin, 1700 delegates at a Sinn Fein convention adopt a provisional charter for an independent Irish Republic and urge defiance of England in peace talks, while protest over MacNeill’s execution stirs scene.
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