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Newspaper
Prahran Chronicle
Location
Prahran, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 12, 1918
Page
4
A quirky wartime column sketches General Joffre chatting with soldiers on a drive and notes how the famed leader asks few questions about the war. The section then shifts to comic vignettes about a scheming impresario, a smart Scot, a clever nurse, a family scene with a cat and pigeon, and a humorous tale of a man fined for a street incident.
A Daily Telegraph correspondent describes a shift in warfare trenches give way to shell holes and night movement. Soldiers fight in voids between lines, with machine guns and rifles audible at all hours. The piece notes pioneers earning new medals amid evolving tactics between Pozieres and Delville Wood as front lines become networks of danger and improvised defenses.
An officer recounts a Highland advance through German trenches in heavy fire. The men press the assault, clearing dugouts with bombs and rifle fire, losing few, and drive the enemy from parapets as they push toward the final objective.
A teacher leads a reading about forests and needles as a student asks which pine has the longest and sharpest needles. Tommy raises his hand in the front row, seeking the answer to a curious classroom riddle.
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