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Newspaper
Violet Town Sentinel
Location
Violet Town, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 05, 1917
Page
4
A collage of dockside chatter, travel notes, and humorous vignettes from war, travel, and home life. Snatches of dialogue, poems, and parlor humor unfold from Sydney to London, with lines on labor, luck, and longing amid wartime anxieties and everyday kindness.
The article explains a global paper shortage worsened by war and submarine threats. British and Commonwealth presses cut page counts, raise prices, and adopt no returns policies. Australian papers face similar constraints, relying on Canadian and American mills and considering tighter distribution to save paper.
The Ballarat sinks after a torpedo strike as Australian troops abandon ship. Amid chaos and danger, soldiers gamble and brawl in a two up game while sailors fight to keep the vessel afloat. The crew finally abandons ship as the hull lists and water pours in, with amidships underway to safety.
A distinguished professor in Edinburgh on a wet Sunday hires a rab to reach a church. At the door the rab charges two shillings claiming the Sabbath discourages travel, and the professor questions the fee. The endman replies in a drawling manner about Sabbath travel. A second vignette shows a child asking if her father ties the knot, with Mamie noting his interest since yesterday.
A wartime plea urges Australia to preserve and grain, grist, and transport wheat to Britain as an Empire duty. It stresses mills need upgrading, shipping risks from submarines, and mobilizing all workers and resources. The piece warns wheat waste harms Britain and the Empire, urging national action to prevent famine.
A British merchant service cadet, John Det, the sole survivor of the ship Thracks torpedoed off French coast, deserts to a wrecked lifeboat with six crew members dead or missing. The submarine commander, after questioning him, threatens a slow death, then disappears, leaving Duff clinging to the lifeboat for about twelve hours before rescue by a German crew.
A fragment from a piece titled Dandelions features disjointed dialogue about aging love, a blunt view of marriage, and a blurred moral sense. It includes a recruit’s banter with a sergeant and a Highland drover tale told by an Englishman, all framed in rough, humorous prose.
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