LANCE Corporal Lyle Holland late driver for the Peninsula Motor Garage Pty Ltd Frankston has been wounded (second occasion) in France.
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MESSRS T. R. B. Morton and Son report, having leased, through J. L. Parkes, one of their auctioneers, Mrs Boag’s property at Dromana, for a term of years.
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A FOOTBALL match between Frankston and Hastings will be played at Frankston today. Last Saturday Mordialloc visited Frankston, and after an interesting game, won by 2 points.
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AN order has been made by the Executive Council providing that all butchers’ shops within the shire of Frankston and Hastings shall close on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings in each week from 6pm.
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A WORKING bee under the auspices of the Frankston Progress Association will be held this (Saturday) afternoon, when the old fence on the eastern side of the Mornington road, opposite the tennis court, will be removed.
A good muster of members and intending members is requested.
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HELP for the Wounded—The Frankston school children are sending their annnal contribution of food and delicacies, to the brave fellows who have battered their health out fighting for us, and who now lie wounded and spent in the wards of their noble Institution the Caulfield Base Hospital.
The parcels will be sent away next Tuesday, and donations of the following will be most gratefully received by the children – Bacon, Eggs, Butter, Cheese, Tinned-milk, Cakes, Jams, Fruits, Sweets, Jellies Sauces, Coffee, Cocoa. Sugar, Oatmeal, Maize, Tobacca, Cigarettes, etc.
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OWING to an error in the wording of the advertisement convening the meeting, nothing could be done at the meeting to elect a local executive committee under the Commonwealth Repatriation act, which was held in Frankston on Wednesday.
It was ultimately decided that another meeting be called, and this will be held on Friday, 20th inst.
A deplorable lack of interest is being shown by the majority of residents in the most important repatriation work, and it is to be hoped that they will shake off their apathy, and roll up in force on Friday evening.
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COUNCILLORS of the various municipalities are considering the best means by which they will be able to stimulate the investments in war loans in their respective districts, and secure, for their municipalities credit for the amounts applied for by their own ratepayers.
In nearly every municipality there a large number of people who find it convenient to arrange for their contributions to be made in the city and they are to be asked to attach a note to their application forms stipulating that credit is to be given to the municipality in which they live.
At the last meeting of the Frankston, and Hastings shire council, it was decided that the councilors of each riding be a committee, and that every effort be made to raise the quota required from the shire, viz £16 000.
Public meetings are to be called in each centre, and no effort will be spared to ensure that the required sum will be raised.
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WHY WE ARE AT WAR Germany’s Lust for Power: Her Pre-War Schemes
It must be obvious to every thinking person throughout Australia that the Great War has now reached its most acute and terrible crisis.
Upon the fields of France is at present being decided the whole future of our race, and of civilisation itself.
On that issue the national life of Australia and the safety and honour of every man and woman within her coasts absolutely depends.
That is why every man who can do so is asked to go forth and fight for his country today.
No eligible man in Australia today can escape the obligation to do this.
The British Empire is at war; the Mother Country and others of our fellow Dominions are fighting with their full strength extended. If we are not prepared to put forth our full strength, we are no true part of that Empire.
Our Empire and our Allies are in this war with clean hands. No Australian who is of military age can avoid the obligation of fighting on the ground that he and his race have been plunged against their will into an unjust war.
For many years before the outbreak of hostilities, Britain had steadily worked for the world’s peace. She had constantly striven to limit the ruinous race of armaments which was jeopardising the world’s security.
Germany would have none of such limitation; she strove tooth and nail against it.
In 1907 the British Government, to show its readiness for peace, prepared estimates reducing its naval construction by 50 per cent.
Germany, on the other hand, passed a Navy Law adding six large cruisers to her fleet.
Great Britain, however, was not discouraged. In 1912, and again in 1913, Mr. Winston Churchill suggested a naval holiday; but Germany rejected such overtures absolutely.
If in the years before the War there was any display of militarism forecasting the present world conflagration, the fault was not Britain’s, but Germany’s alone.
A recently published letter by Prince Karl Lichnowsky, formerly the Kaiser’s ambassador at the Court of St. James, forms a telling indictment of the German policy prior to the War, and makes it clear that British statesmen strove hard to unite the German and Anglo Saxon races, and to remove friction.
The Prince says: “As usual, we took the wrong side, with dynastic against democratic ideas. During the conference of ambassadors in 1913 Sir Edward Grey did not side with France and Russia. He usually sided with our group, so the conference did not provide a pretext for a conflict.”
But Britain’s forbearance and desire for peace, and the contrasting aggressiveness of the German spirit, were never more strikingly illustrated than during the negotiations immediately receding the War.
There cannot be the slightest doubt that Germany and Austria had at this period determined upon warfare. The Kiel Canal was practically completed, and the last instalment of Germany’s huge war loan of a million marks had fallen due in June, 1914.
Austria, at German dictation, now delivered her insulting ultimatum to Serbia, who still strove hard for peace.
When Russia, after repeatedly suggesting arbitration, prepared to come to the aid of her oppressed fellow Slavs, Germany deliberately kicked out the wedge that secured the world’s peace.
She declared war on Russia on August 1, 1914, and on France on August 3.
No Australian need have a moment’s hesitation about joining the colours on the ground of the justice of his cause.
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WANTED – Nurse Girl, young, for 2 Children – Apply Miss BOYETT, “Green Gables,” Frankston, or Mr P. BOYETT, Dentist, Frankston.
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WANTED – A Useful Pony, suitable for Phaeton, not too old. – Apply A. GULLETT, “The Springs,” Cranbourne Road, Frankston.
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From the pages of the Mornington Standard, 14 September 1918
First published in the Mornington News – 11 September 2018
