THE OVERSEAS EMPIRE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2229, 15 August 1914, Page 7

THE OVERSEAS EMPIRE

AUSTRALIA'S WAR FUND , SHIPMENTS OF FOOD (Rec. August 15, 0.55 a.m.) Sydney, August 14.. The Chamber of Commerce has initiated a war food fund, and propose to send shipments Home weokly if possible. Already .£6OOO has been' subscribed. The Grammar School boys have offered to accept certificates instead of the usual prizes for athletic sports, the money so i'saved going to the patriotic fund. , (Rec. August 14, 8.25 p.m.) Melbourne, August 14. The Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund now. amounts to -,£20,663. VICTORIAN LEGISLATION./, J/lelbourne, Angust 14. ■ A. Bill has passed the Assembly providing against undue restriction in the supply of goods, arid undue raising of prices during the war. • CANADA. 100,000 MEN VOLUNTEER. A GREAT RESPONSE/. Vancouver, Angus 13. It is unofficially stated that one hundred thousand men have volunteered for Canada's army, corps, tho number, of which has been fixed at twenty thousand. / REGULATION .Or".FOOD PRICES.^ ; LEGISLATION PROPOSED. '/ '.','•• Ottawa, August 13. With the object of .'regulating' food prices throughout Canada, and to prevent unscrupulous . dealers unduly inflating prices, the Government intends to legislation immediately Parliament meets similar to that already enacted in Britain.'; r AUSTRIAN CONSULATES CLOSED. . Ottawa, August 13. , All the Austrian Consuls have 1 been ordered .to ' closo their Canadian- offices and leave the country immediately. INDIA. NATIVE,'CHI EFS', LOYALTY, ALL FORCES OFFERED. ■i' - :' Simla, August 12. 1 ' Practically every ruling chiefs has of- ; ferod his entire military and financial ie- ' souroes. \ Some are discussing the question of ' the'equipment of a hospital ship. London. August 13. The Gaekwar of Baroda his troops and resources at tie King's disposal. ■ SOUTH AFRICA. FIVE THOUSAND COLOURED ' .VOLUNTEERS. . Capo, Town, August 12. ■ Five thousand coloured men have , offered to serve in.'South .Africa or abroad; ■•• ■!■■'.•. OFFICIAL NEWS ' The Official Press Bureau has cabled the following items:— . No reassurance shipping North Sea, where formidable, operations proceeding. Bulk of enemy's twenty-six Army Oorp3 located between Liege and Luxemburg, indicating Russian frontier lightly guarded, except by reserves. GERMAN BRUTALITY : COMMISSION OF INQUIRY' SET UP. Brussels, August 13. ■ A .committee liuder a Supreme, Court Judge is collecting • evidence regarding German outrages in violation of the' Geneva Conference and the Hague Coni yehtipn. ■ Stories of German brutality are aocu- . mulating. .A" Uhlan cut down a priest < who was administering the Sacrament to the wounded., Germans at Remicourt, afew miles east of Liege, shot down two ; children, aged seven ' years, who had ■' warned gendarmes of flieir arrival. Similar stories have i-eaclud St. Petersburg. Soldiers stripptd Russian ladies * naked in the preseiue of their officers. ) The father of one of the ladies interl vened and was shot dead, s ' The few English visitors in Germany !.. are believed to be well treated. \ PRUSSIA;/ • /MOSCOW FUNDS FOR THE ' s . ; WOUNDED. * St. Petersburg, August 12. Merchants at Moscow raised .£250,000 in a quarter of an hour for the wounded and tneir families. : The Grand Duke Constantinovitch has offered'his famous marble palace as a 'hospital. GERMAN DEAD ) .- : , PRINCE VON BUELOW LOSES A - BROTHER. . (Reo. Angust 15, 0.40 a.m.) Amsterdam, August* 14. The brother of Prince von Buelow, formerly Imperial Chancellor of Germany, was killed at Liege.. . , . Brussels, August 18. Two German Uhlans killed at Hasselt , were being when the Red Cross f staff discovered ten thousand marks in !, gold (,£500) upon one and five thousand - (.£250) on the'other. It is supposed tho - men were attached to the commissariat. 3 > p j GERMAN WAR NEWS; I ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS CUT OFF. * - __- ;;. PUBLIC KEPT JN THE DARK. ' (Recoived August 14, 5.15 p.m.) ' ■ ■ London, August 13. British .newspapers wens barred by Germany after July 3J,' for the purpose of blinding the people to English opinions. German agents.in London forwarded news on succeeding doy9 that England r had resolved upon peace nt almost any r price. At. Brussels it is suggested thut f newspapers should publish extracts of s war news and scatter them broadcast, in tlie Rhine Provinces to prevent the Ger- . wan difjßinination • of falss news."Tiines" and Sydney "Sun" servioes,