WHAT AUSTRALIA HAS DONE.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2495, 23 June 1915, Page 7

WHAT AUSTRALIA HAS DONE.

63,522 MEN ON ACTIVE SERYICE EQUIPMENT PROBLEMS Melbourne, Juna 22. Senator Pearce (Minister for Defence), speaking at a recruiting meeting ill tho Town Hall, said that Australia had dono more than anybody had expected. She had sent 63,522 men to the front, 18,978 men wore in training, and she was pledged to send 5000 reinforcements every month. "Australia," he said, "must set out to do what she can to double or treble these figures. Recruiting could lie very much better, especially _ in Victoria. Tho British authorities liavo informed us that every inan was want(id. I know that there arc difficulties in the way of equipment which tho Government can surmount, and I am confident that, with tho realisation of tho issue at stake, Australia can double her number of men in the field."

WAR MUNITIONS FROM AUSTRALIA., LITHGOW MEN EAGER FOR WORK. Sydney, June 22. Senator Gardiner, Vice-President of the Federal Executive, said that though difficulties had been encountered in the establishment of a doublo shift at Lithgow small arms factory, it woidd be started in a few weeks. A meeting of Labour men at Lithgoiv strongly resented the delay, and decided to notify Senator Pearce that tho Amalgamated Society of Engineers was willing to supply all the skilled hands required within a fortnight.