AUSTRALIA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2278, 12 October 1914, Page 6

AUSTRALIA

CAPTURED SHIPS FOR STATE SERVICE, „ Melbourne, October 10. The Federal Government is considering the possibility of using the prize ships for the establishment of a Commonwealth line of steamships. It is proposed to initiate a service between Tasmania and tho mainland. TRADING WITH THE ENEMY. Melbourne, October 10. Mr. Hughes (Federal Attorney-Gen-eral) has given notice to introduce a Bill to prevent trading with the enemy. AVIATION SCHOOL. Melbourne, October 10. Instructions have been issued for the immediate construction of the aviation school buildings required by the aviation corps at Altona Bay,'at an estimated cost of £10,000. SEIZED WHEAT. Sydney, October 10. All seized wheat has been sold. LESSONS OF THE WAR. v Sydney, October 10. The "Sydney Morning Herald," in a leader, says:—"Tho greatest geography lesson ever taught is being-taught today.; On the other sido of the world, millions of people are looking at war maps—looking with, special interest on tho great island continent of Australia and that wonderful .little country called New'Zealand'. Wα shall get no more letters addressed 'New Zealand, Australia.' The Government's intention to lay down another battleship and to replace the lost submarine means that tho war has taught us a lesson we would never have learned fully, without it."