EVERY AVAILABLE MAN TO BE SENT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2436, 15 April 1915, Page 5

EVERY AVAILABLE MAN TO BE SENT

AUSTRALIA'S CALL TO THE COLOURS. (Rec. April 14, 9.'45 p.m.) Melbourne, April 14. The Faderal Parliament has opened. The Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher), in the course of a statement dealing with the war., said that Australian troops _ already dispatched, or in. the training camp totalled 70,101, 30,946 horses, and 3098 vehicles." The total number of men' sent abroad was 43,146. The unchanging policy of the Government was to train, equip, and transport to the seat of war every available man lit to help in defeating the enemy. The Government had requisitioned twenty-two mills, which were working at their fullest capacity" for military needs, the orders running into two million yards of cloth for uniforms, 1} mil-lion-yards for shirts, and a quarter of a million for blankets. With regard to the Navy, added Mr. Fisher, it was expected that the cruiser Brisbane would be launched, and the new destroyers completed this year. WAR EXPENDITURE. (Rcc. April 15, 0.10 a.m.) '-. Melbourne, April 14. Mr. Fisher added that 80 per cent, of the troops, were Australian born. Touching upon finance, he said that on present indications and estimates the revenue for the year would be satisfactory on the whole, and though there would be a shortage, it would be unlikely to cause serious embarrassment. . The expenditure to February 28 totalled £21,836,070; receipts,. £20,987,975, compared with the estimate of £36,361,214 for the whole year. The war expenditure would exceed the estimates, but would be met out of an additional loan of six millions and a half, granted by the Imperial Government, making a total of 24 i million to be received up till the end of December. The Allies, he added, faced the opening of the spring campaign with the highest hopes of success..... •..