THE CALL FOR MEN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2514, 15 July 1915, Page 5

THE CALL FOR MEN

AUSTRALIA'S RECRUITS

TROOPS' AND EQUIPMENT

STATEMENT IN THE FEDERAL HOUSE Br Teleerßph—Press Association-Copyrislit Melbourne, July 14. Senator Pearce (Minister of Defence) ■lias announced that when the troops now embarking arrive, Australia ' will, have 80,000 men at the front. 'He total number of recruits is 100,000. Arrangements. are being completed to enable recruits rejected oil the grounds of medicil unfitness, remediable by an operation) to obtain attendance preparatory to,a second enlistment. ■ Tlio Commonwealth has on order full equipment for 50,000 men, exclusive of all units and reinforcement units completed or authorised.' Long before the winter the necessary arrangements were made to meet the needs of the Australians theu in the field. Two Red Cross commissioners have been appointed to proceed to Egypt to take up duties similar to those of the British commissioners. Steamers Taken for Transports, The Minister of Marine, the Hon. J. A. .Jensen, stated that owing to the Imperial Government utilising a number of military transports in connection with food supplies, lie anticipated that it would be necessary to make further inroads on the inter-State fleet. At present the Commonwealth had the third largest shipping fleet in the world under its control, numbering eightyfive vessels.- , ■

A WAR CENSUS BILL'. (Reo. .July 15, 1.20 a.m.) s Melbourne, July 14. In the Federal House the War Census Bill has been introduced, providing for the of. all males from 17 to 60 years of age, and for the obtaining of particulars of the wealth of tlie population generally. RECRUITING CAMPAIGNS IN THE STATES. . OFFER TO BUSINESS EMPLOYEES. ■ / Sydney, July 14. The businessmen's recruiting meeting carried a.resolution to reinstate in their former positions all employees able to tUce them on returning from the war. The Premier (Mr. Holman) emphasised the possibilities of female labour to till tho gaps made by recruiting. Adelaide, July 14. South Australia, is commencing a recruiting campaign similar to the Victorian effort. Hobart, July 14. Tasmania is commencing a'recruiting campaign. Cecal M'Villy, winner of the 1913 Diamond Sculls, at Henley, has enlisted.

SPORT AND AMUSEMENTS SHOULD BE CURTAILED. (Rec. July 14,. 9 p.m.) Sydney, July 14. The Fanners' Conference has resolved, in view of the,need for men ht the front,. to urge the. authorities to reduce sports and amusements.

CANADA'S QUOTA. SPEECH BY SIR ROBERT BORDEN. . London, July 13. At a luncheon given in honour of Sir Robert Bbrden, Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord" of the Admiralty, presided. There were also .present: Mr. Bonar Law (Secretary of State'for the Colonies), the High Commissioners for the Dominions, the Agents-General ■ for the Australian States, and many notables; ■ Sir Robert Borden, in a speech in reply to .the toast'of his health, said that Canada liad sent 75,000 men overseas and has 75,000 more in training. 1 Mr. Balfour,, referring to j Sir Robert 'Borden's remark that Canada was" not a-military nation, said: "Neither are the British, Australians, New Zealanders, and SoutJh Africans, but thoy are non-military nations which can tight."

THE BRITISH NATIONAL REGISTER BILL IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS London, Jply 13. Lord Lansdowne, in the House of Lords, moved the reading of the Registration Bill. . Tho country,* (he said, realised that tho old go-as-you-please system liad broken down. He believed we had twenty-two or twenty-three divisions in the European theatre at the present moment.-Prodigious efforts had been made to overtake pa_st errors and in order to provide equipment. The efforts had been attended with considerable success. There was _nbt a word regarding compulsory service in tliepreserit Bill, but he did not believe the country would tolerate voluntary service with its, present anomalies and injustice much longer. The Bill .would greatly assist compulsory service, - because it would shorten _ the interval elapsing between the decision to resort to absolute compulsion. . v Tho Bill was read a second time, FOR HOME DEFENCE. REJECTED RECRUITS TO CALL' ' AGAIN. (Rec. July 14, 11.55 p.m.) London, July 14. The War Office has invited rejected recruits in Birmingham to revolunteer and the doctors have been instructed to accept all those organically fit, overlooking slight. defects of eyesight and. teeth, enrolling for home defence those not fitted for tho front.