05 Jun 1917
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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 05, 1917
Page
1
The passage describes the Cherubs perched aloft in a naval lookout role, watching a misty sea for danger. They study distant wakes and shapes on the water, suspecting U boats beneath the surface, while noting the need for constant vigilance during patrols.
A garbled note describes an odd warning about a fire cough, urging no effort to make and fix a risky situation, with unclear directives and broken phrasing.
The piece lauds Boy Scouts and Wolf Cubs for war effort discipline and readiness. It notes numbers rising to 200000 in the United Kingdom, 4000 more in London, and 3000 Wolf Cubs. It describes Scouts aiding the front with ambulance work, coast watching, signaling, and cooking, with over 15000 veterans enlisted and 53 proficiency badges.
Acknowledgment of Dr J J Ackwort’s generosity highlights the move by the Boy Scouts' Association to occupy a new headquarters on Buckingham Palace Road. The lease at 116 Victoria Street has expired, with the new offices aimed to be ready by next summer.
A well-authenticated note reports a Worcestershire ewe, daughter of a Kerry ram out of a Shropshire ewe, foaling annually from 1908 to 1918. She reared 46 of 24 lambs herself, with four reared by hand and four died. Milk bottle trained as a yearling, she readily recognized her lambs. Compared to Mr A B Henderson’s Bylands ewe in Victoria with 33 lambs in ten years. Similar feats noted among Weslaydale sheep.
A Kalgoorlie Miner London correspondent condemns neutral aliens in London as unwilling to fight, noting thousands of civilian foreigners of military age who support Britain in cheer but not on the battlefield. The piece urges swift action to discharge and return fit soldiers and to curb such “scandal” for the morale of allied nations.
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