AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2726, 22 March 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

270,000 MEN UNDER ARMS

THE COMMONWEALTH ARMY TO* I • DAY. |

By Telegraph-Press Assoclatton-Copyxtelrt , Sydney, March 21.',...'' . The Minister of Defence,has.announo- ( ed that the Commonwealth Army now | numbered 270,000 men, and that already ;, the extra 50,000 men promised are as- j 6ured. ' "" _ '"■■'• ;j Jj ' (Reo. March 21, 10.10 p.m.)•;.,,. ! Sydney, Maroh 21. .. j The Assistant Minister for Defence is i satisfied with ti» u «crmtans -, v AI " ; ready,", he says, ''the additional fifty, thousand men promised by «ie Government is in sight, and wo will be,■able to reduce the reinforcement enlistments , from .twenty to fifteen per cent. , •;

Melbourne, March 21. \j • gpeaking- at-a.conference- of the Aus- ,| tralian Natives'' Association;, bir AUK j Ham Irvine, K.C.,. sa.d the wretched , system of voluntaryism was a .roue of a ; motlwaten political Bupentrtm. that j was .wearing away the" vital ..forces of , Australia. • j " STRIKE AT NAVAIi'TVOBESHOPS.' j Sydney, March 21. ! The engineers at the naval workshops j at Garden Island have sh' uck^ r l 6 ": I suit of the dismissal of a member of th« : union for refusing to do certain .work- ~ DECIDEDLY MIXED. , j •'■""■■■■.■ SOOTH WALES. ~- ■-■;. (Reo: March 21, 10.10 P-m-V;,- \ Sydney, March 21.. ] The breadstuff s position is decidedly i mixed?' The Government has fixed the-, prfee of bread in New-South Wales at=,j two-jxrand: loaf, with, flour at. £11 ts. per ton, whereas a jprevw»-j Federal proclamation recommended old. ■~ for the tour-pound loaf when flour wa*..; at £11 Us. ' ••■■ '_■■ ' ■.: "THE DIZZY LIMIT." i CABINET MINISTER-ON "THIS' /;l ■ STRIKE BUSINESS." | (Rec. March 21,10!lO £-ni.) Sydney, March 21. ' The New South Wales.Minister for ; Railways, talking to a deputation from > the Eveleigh, workshop employees who . sought his advice after going on strike, .{ said: "Wo have about reached ' .the ; ; dizzy limit on this strike business,,and { this kind of thing must stop, _li.it ;• goes on wo will havo to say: -iou will ; darned well have to stop on strike and ; take the consequences.', We cannot j allow men to dictate to' us." -.-.-..■ ,|