MESSAGE MISINTERPRETED IN AUSTRALIA
jm' BELLS RLTA r G. '•LAUGHABLE DEVELOPMENTS IN . .- v TITE COUNTRY. (Rec. 12.10 p.m.) 5 SYDNEY. Thi s Day. --'Misinterpretation of CTerniany's acceptance of President Wilson's points j into her surrender, caused much excitement in various cities and laughable developments in the country. Newcastle miners celebrated the supposed peace by> taking Monday off. At Goulburn sewerage employees and many other works made a. holiday ' ■r.tiid soem places' nvere closed. At Bathurst- the joy-belk were rune and the crowd paraded the streets till midnight. Newspaper offices were everywhere deluged with inquiries -and crowds awaited the" posting of news. Press and public feeling in the Cfinmro-nwealth L, steadily hardening against anything "short of Germany's complete surrender. ■ - I
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 248, 15 October 1918, Page 6
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