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Newspaper
Tambellup Times
Location
Tambellup, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 14, 1916
Page
2
The readable portions mention a place and a event but key names dates and outcomes are unreadable. The fragment references Perth and a VOT like voting section with limited context and no clear actions or results.
The article blends church and school notices with wartime opinion. It celebrates war sacrifice and patriotic funds tied to agricultural shows, notes support from communities like Bellaring and Campbelltown, and urges per cent profits for patriotic causes. It recalls Belgium and Britain’s honor, predicts Empire costs, and argues for national unity and peace through victory.
The statement argues the plan will provide a twofold gain. It will aid the new volunteers who have risked their lives for the Empire and elevate every donor toward higher ideals.
A Petrograd communique reports steady Russian advances in Volhynia, Kiev, and Bukowina with large prisoner totals. It lists captured matériel including scarcelights, supply trains, field kitchens, barbed wire, girders, and concrete cubes, along with 106,000 prisoners and 1,649 officers.
London reports Russia strikes a large blow against Austria with the line broken in three places near Kovel Stanislaw and Czernowitz. A wedge splits the Von Bothmer and Pelanzer advance, challenging Velanzer to hold Bukovina.
A Petrograd dispatch notes heavy losses in a torpedoed transport with about 4700 prisoners reported overall. Russians claim an Austrian division was surrounded and a railway station seized while a train of troops and munitions was captured. Donvidovra village fell as Russian forces advance 17 miles south of Latsk and 10 miles west of Dabno with Sunday river actions near Zaleshchyk on the Dniester.
Vienna reports Russians captured Roshitsne north of Lutsk and are advancing toward Kovel, with explosions observed in Czarnowite suburbs as bridges are believed to be blown. The Amsterdam dispatch cites the move as of June 12.
A military estimate puts Austrian losses at 400000 and warns Russians may push through the front toward Vienna, signaling a potential breakthrough across central fronts.
The Amsterdam Telegraat says battles in Flanders and at Ypres on the 6th and 2nd signal the start of a major German offensive. The Press Bureau reports a bomb found in the bilge of a grain steamer recently arrived from America.
Italian forces report a turning point in the Trenting engagement as counterattacks shifted the momentum, reversing an earlier setback and pressing the offensive against the enemy.
A horse and light dray carrying provisions for men bolted from Clive street in Sunday morning traffic. The intoxicated passenger lay at the bottom of the cart as it crossed rails toward Richardson's yard. The shaft grazed a buggy horse. no injuries occurred to any person or animal as the bolter sped along footpaths past Pettit's Hotel and the Great Southern Herald office before stopping in Bolfir's yard.
A general meeting of the Katanning Choral and Ogzr atic Society was held at the Mechanics' Institute chaired by Mr A Thomson. About 40 members attended as committees proposed preparing a concert featuring Gilbart and Sullivan's The Mikado with sacred music practice in the coming Sunday evening and weekly Monday meetings continuing at the Mechanics Institute.
The Katanning Golf Club reports results of the annual foursomes event held Saturday. Pairs such as Mr and Mrs MacDonald, Mr Unt and Mrs Merkine, and Dr Dove and Mrs Howse posted scores from 50s to 60s with notable handicaps noted. a playoff between Mr and Mrs McDonald and Mr and Mrs Perkins is scheduled this week.
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