14 Jun 1916
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 14, 1916
Page
1
A fragmented wartime column sketches odd items from the front and home. It notes a zeppelin related hat fashion quirk, a cat aboard a vessel causing defection rumors, a five‑son military family, and a 24‑hour clock reform in Sir JohnFrench’s department. It also mentions a bullet incident in Labrador, wartime health drives, and Krupp’s role in German munition production with Birmingham links.
Public notice announces advertising rates and subscription offers for the Gloucester Advocate. It invites readers to secure space and maintain subscriptions with potential interest promotions and incentives for new and renewing customers.
The report covers Salonika and Verdun air combat, shelling, and a focus on prisoner and revolver incidents. It notes German efforts to use a silencing revolver for prisoner extraction and details Allied reactions to repatriation and wartime supply disruptions, with remarks on merchant seamen and women in Edinburgh industries.
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