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Newspaper
Meekatharra Miner
Location
Meekatharra, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 09, 1917
Page
3
Reports detail crushing results at multiple mines, prospecting near Camer, and new lodes at Blue Streak area. Officials inspect leases, while Exe ments at Marmont Extended are adjourned. The Eneliston Extended Co has spent and earned large sums, with water pumping costs heavy. Thomas Ryan estate dividend notice in Supreme Court Perth seeks proofs by June 23 1617.
London reports that Canadian troops attacked southwest of Lens last night and seized all targeted positions, then pressed along the Arras Lens road at dawn, taking a power station south of the Soucher river packed with machine guns. Germans, still smarting from Bullecourt, flood ruined villages with artillery while Australians hold the Hindenburg line east of Bullecourt as hunger worsens.
The Don Cossacks in Petrograd demand exclusive control of a front section. They claim 5,090,000 eligible men and insist they have their own infantry, guns, and horsemen to prove Russia’s powder remains ready to defeat Germany.
A Nationalist Labor Socialist convention opened yesterday in Leeds Coliseum with Robert Smillie in chair and Ramsay McDonald Snowden Jowett and Anderson on the platform. No great trades unions leaders were invited. The proceedings began with the Red Flag to a German tune and resolutions urged peaceful terms without annexations, indemnities, and recognition of nations’ rights to self determination. Snowden drafted a cablegram to Petrograd’s Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Committee reporting the actions.
Kronstadt issues a defiant message to Russia and the Petrograd government’s commissary departs the island, leaving Kronstadt entirely under the control of revolutionary troops.
The Admiralty reports that Dover, through the vice Admiral, bombarded Ostend and the German naval base with a large number of rounds early today. The shore batteries replied but our forces suffered little damage, with good results cited.
Milan correspondent reports messages from Switzerland indicate a large Austro German offensive planned. Russians are lured by German Socialists into thinking Austria and Germany won’t attack unless provoked. Hindenburg’s planes prepared. By summer’s end over a million reservists to be mobilized aiming to enter Petrograd and Moscow. Attacks expected first at Riga and Lubin in August.
British forces bombarded Zeebrugge for an hour and forty minutes. The harbour area suffered severe damage as Germans clear debris and tend to casualties. Reports indicate Zeebrugge is in ruins.
Commodore Trowhitt reports that early this morning light cruisers and destroyers under his command sighted six German destroyers and engaged them at long range. In the exchange the destroyer 820 was sunk and another severely damaged. seven survivors were picked up from 820. No British casualties were suffered.
An official report confirms six teen German aeroplanes attacked the Essex coast at 6 15 pm and dropped bombs on rural districts and towns. The raiders reached the Medway drill establishment, caused some house damage, negligible harm to naval or military facilities, and were pursued after losing two aircraft.
United Press reports from London say the heaviest clashes occurred Saturday and Sunday near Lens. Canadians wiped out German trenches south of Lens and captured a power station and backyard before a withdrawal to former positions. The Germans counter attacked fiercely, forcing hand to hand fighting as Canadians withdrew with 113 prisoners.
German units arriving from the Russian front joined a Meuse River operation and endured severe casualties. Five regiments were nearly annihilated while reports from prisoners say four successive assaults at Vauclere Plateau were met with fierce resistance, forcing early abandonment of later attacks.
Dr Seston Aelmer English professor at a German university reached London yesterday after leaving Germany on May 23 following internment. He notes he is an Austrian and hopes he has seen Germany's fate. He cites severe food shortages in Germany risking disaster.
The Daily Telegraph correspondent reports Me Resky’s return to Petrograd amid widespread desire for peace at nearly any price. Socialists rebuff renewed offensives, arguing an attack on Germany during a revolution would aid Kaiserdom. Me Resky’s absence underscores Russia’s fate hinging on him.
In wartime news from New York, registration under the Conscription Law proceeds with millions recorded. British gunners decimate a German air formation near London, claiming ten enemy machines down with twelve killed and forty six wounded among allied forces. Eyewitness reports describe Medway raids, bombers breaking, one plane losing its propeller, and several raiders shot down near Kent Dunkirk and Ostend. Since Sunday Britain has downed sixty two enemy planes while suffering twenty losses.
Thomas Jackson, an elderly pensioner from Gaal-inthy, walked twenty one miles to Nandine in search of independence, enduring cold and hunger with few supplies. Found exhausted after four nights in the bush, he was taken to hospital where he recovered with kindness from the Matron. He plans a holiday at the Old Men's Home on Fresh Water Bay.
The Daily Chronicle correspondent reports a counter attack on Mount Buriti costing the enemy 85 000 men in 60 hours. Tris expects 200 000 Italians to gather in America amid gun shortages and brigade movements.
United Press correspondent at British HQ reports thundering artillery from Viney northward to Ypres under a flat sun. Small raids are successful and prisoners say British guns devastate German front and support trenches, hindering entanglements.
Haig states early morning attack on Messanes Wytheade ridge over nine miles secured first objectives. Front-wide progress noted with prisoners arriving. Canadians quickly retook Lens power station after brief clash, shocking Bavarians with their rapid recovery.
Public notice warns that musterers or waterers at Milgan country mills without permission are trespassers and will be dealt with by law. Drovers are urged to provide written notice before entering the Milgan run with traveling stock. By order Manager.
For sale. Apples and pears available at Boyangup station. Oranges seven shillings and lemons listed. Money with Mre M. L. Cliften.
Auctioneer P Brennant will sell at Liddles Yards Meekatharra on Wednesday next June 3 oclock. The notice notes a public sale conducted by the local yard owner with items available for bidding at the specified time.
The Red Cross Society announces its annual meeting will be held in the Roads Board Hall on the 13th. All members are requested to attend, and circle presidents should arrange to have all work at Mrs Allanson’s house by Tuesday, January 12.
A list of donations and collections including Mesors F Connandton £530 Gane £225 Rev Crave U £110s G West £1 A Leake £2 Mise Maud McKenzie £1 10s Mrs Wardell Peak Hill £0 15d plus May 1th dance £8 25 and Presidents' collections for April £6 14s5d May £5 13s2d 6d Previously acknowledged £4 7s4d Total £569 4s5d to N Margerbson Town Secretary.
Donald Ferguson has applied under The Mining Act 1904 for a gold mining lease called Kanunutra inside 12 acres starting at the southwest corner of GML Notagon then 10 chains east 12 chains south 19 chains west 12 chains north. Objections must be lodged with the Warden’s office by July 9 1917 and hearing will occur July 9 1917. Murchison Goldfield Registrar Tvor W Trormtas.
In Geraldton four teak real estate itemized as Teal Taormino Nice Weather Board Courage rooms and plaster lathe and plaster double brick chimney wash house with copper bully in stable, Liggy sheds and extra quar-carner bert three front aves TH uc Good sail. the ples uf Geraldton. ter iaher in fermation apris to ALLAWSON cuH Eves.
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