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Newspaper
Hamilton Spectator
Location
Hamilton, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 03, 1915
Page
3
The seventy second casualty list reports totals of killed wounded and missing to date. Names from Victoria include Gunner F G Johnson Ballarat and many others with ranks from Private to Corporal plus several listed as died of wounds or wounded in action.
A long list of names with ranks and hometowns appears, noting Pte, Corp, and Lt roles among Australian units. Entries include Deery Bairnadale, Whitehead Minhamite, Goldthorpe Razlint Corp N. W, and many others from Melbourne, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria. The piece records deaths from illness and battlefield losses with scattered unit details and locational tags.
Pte J Casanova Lake Bolac reports reported entries of Victorian men joining for Australia. Names listed include Lieuts Smith Pascoe Geer Malvern Gaves Elsternwick Broad St Kikla Major Blesard Brunswick Tiree Footecray Dickinson North Carlton Cumberland Elsternwick Booth Adamson Sewell Coburg all noted as wounded or ill and serving in the forces.
The body of Henry Smith 40 was found in a shelter bed near the boat plot. Authorities report a bullet wound and rifle nearby, suggesting death by own action. Smith was a married man and former borough employee who recently resigned from work and supported his family.
The document reports a man identified as Fenudiva Lincoln, once a British Parliament member, charged with forgery and facing extradition. It mentions alleged British wishes to recruit him as a spy and includes fragmented, non-coherent lines about Life's Banner and peculiar poetic phrases.
A Duma financial statement shows the government has already borrowed 260000, 00 and hints at a likely floatation of bonds in foreign markets soon. The piece notes Russia’s vast gold reserves as a key factor behind the move.
Aren Hayasai, a Japanese ambassador at Tome, says the public underestimates Japan’s cooperation with the Allies. He asserts when details can be shared the world will be astonished by Japan’s past and future actions and notes Russia as a neighbor.
Paris reports M. Pogoud the well known French airman and flight expert was shot dead at high altitude in combat with German forces. An official communique confirms an enemy aviator bombed Lamevill e and Pogoud perished in a daring engagement over Petit Crois.
The King and Queen spent about two and a half hours at the Third London Vieneral Hospital at Wandeworch. They surveyed two hundred wounded soldiers in a downefile wearing blue hospital gowns and spoke with each man. The King asked about their meals in Germany and the reply prompted a sharp retort about being fed like cattle.
British reports confirm quiet drilling by Germans and Austrians in the Turn Verein hill location as a purported deterrent to Canadian evasion. The Department of Justice handles the matter. A German student at Pennsylvania University was found drawing the Delaware fortifications and other sites.
A communiqué states French colonial forces in southeast Cameroon advance on Yanide the capital. They seize Abon embong after two engagements and force German positions at Ndjavhi and fortifications between Hondttue and Ngilaboklume to retreat northward in a bid to organize resistance near Joke.
London markets report a sharp drop to 4.44 dollars then a rebound to 4.63 dollars in American Sterling, with analysts noting further moves ahead and limited near term remedy.
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