AUSTRALIAN ARMY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 250, 16 July 1919, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN ARMY

« PROGRESS OF .DEMOBILISATION. London, July 14. General Monasli, Commarider_ of the Australian Forces, in an interview, said the Australians at present in Britain were engaged. in clearing up work at various camps; and as various stages of the work were completed as many were shipped homeward as sufficient shipping was available for. About a thousand men were still in France, engaged in work upon graves. On both sentimental and economic grounds it was better that this work should be done by the comrades of the fallen than by outsiders. The rapidity of demobilisation had far exceeded expectations; and every detail of the force would be shipped before the end of August—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

MR. HUGHES'S FAREWELL - TO THE v TItOOPS. London, July 9. Mr. W. M. Iluslies broke his journey at Plymouth, and visiled Salisbury Plain, where he farewelled the troops. At Sutton Veny he addressed two larije parades, and received an enthusiastic ovation. Afterwards Mr. Hughes visitIho hosnital, where ho shook hands and chatted with four hundred patients. He addressed those who were able to sit up, and paid a tribute to the work of all. He touchinsly referred to those who .were likelv to bear life-long evidence of their efforts on the battlefield.—Aus.-N.Z. | Cable Assn.