The front page of the Advertiser, 5 August, 1914
Advertiser – September 1917
1 Sept 1917 p8
LETTERS FOR PRISONERS OF WAR
Correspondence addressed to prisoners of war in Germany should be as brief as possible, not more than one sheet written on both sides. That is the maximum allowed by Germany. It should only deal with personal and family matters. Clear writing, typewriting if possible, will have the best chance of reaching the destination. Letters should be posted unsealed, and need not bear a postage stamp. Correspondence that contravenes these rules is almost sure to be destroyed by the enemy military authorities…
1 Sept 1917 p9
THE AUSTRALIANS: ARTILLERY NEAR YPRES; HEROIC HOSPITAL NURSES
(From the Australian Official Correspondent.) LONDON, August 30. The Australian artillery is still engaged in the thick of the Ypres battle. Two days of heavy rain has converted the whole battlefield into a thick red clay mud… The other Australian units involved in the great fight of Ypres, but which have previously not been mentioned, are the Australian Clearing Hospitals. These came under shellfire both during the Ypres battle and at Messines, and they were also bombed by aeroplanes. The nurses all behaved most gallantly. They stayed in the wards, and even placed basins on the heads of patients instead of steel helmets to protect them. They bitterly resented the order to leave the wards. Five Australian nurses have now been given Military Medals…
3 Sept 1917 p9
GERMAN AUSTRALIANS: AIMS OF THE ALL-BRITISH LEAGUE
At the annual meeting of the Adelaide All- British League in the Institute Building North terrace… two speakers delivered vehement addresses relating to German-Australians… The Chairman said the league intended ‘that people of British blood should dominate Australia’. The League wanted ‘people of British blood never to spend a penny piece in the shop of an alien, nor to buy anything manufactured in an enemy country. (Cheers.) They wanted to see that ‘German colonists were never again permitted to hold land in this country.’ (Cheers.)
8 Sept 1917 p10
REJECTED VOLUNTEERS: ASSOCIATION: A NEW ORGANISATION FORMED
A meeting was held on Friday evening in the Adelaide Town Hall to form an association of rejected volunteers… The Chairman said the time had come when rejected men, and who had volunteered to fight, should be able to walk the streets without people ‘throwing off’ at them. …
12 Sept p10
RETURNED ANZACS: SOUTH AUSTRALIAN OFFICER KILLS HIMSELF.
Men who had fought at Bapaume, Bullecourt, and Messines were among the contingent of soldiers who disembarked today. There was an unusually large proportion of serious cases on board. During the voyage a South Australian officer, in a period of delirium, threw himself overboard. The vessel stood by for seme hours, but the body was not recovered…
17 Sept 1917 p9
RECRUITING AT LOW EBB. A GRAVE SITUATION.
The low ebb to which voluntary recruiting has fallen in almost every part of Australia ¡s occasioning grave anxiety to the military authorities, who are already experiencing considerable difficulty in completing the required draft of reinforcements. The new recruiting campaign, which was inaugurated at the beginning of July has failed to achieve the desired results, and barely half the number of recruits needed are offering for service…
27 Sept 1917 p6
GERMAN NAMES: THE NOMENCLATURE BILL
German and other place names were discussed in the House of Assembly on Wednesday, when the Premier moved the second reading of a bill to remove designations of enemy origin from the map of South Australia and substitute others. German-sounding place names, he said, had become obnoxious to the people of the State. The Nomenclature Committee appointed last year – Messrs. E. M. Smith, H. C. Talbot, and R. Cockburn – had done excellent work, but in its report aboriginal names had been a little overdone, and he had suggested that it would be a suitable time to commemorate heroes of the greatest war the world had ever seen and battlefields on which the sons of Australia had won glory. For Kaiserstuhl he would like to see something like Mount Lord Kitchener substituted…
