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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 649, 7 March 1914, Page 5

As the statistics showed that forty thousand persons afforded availed themselves of the recently afforded opportunity of travelling during church hours on Sunday night at Sydney, the Commissioners turned down a protest by the Evangelical Council against the running of the cars. Count von Reventlow, the noted writer on naval troops, accuses the British Admiralty of systematically understating the size of its capital ships, and adds that the German Navy has always followed approximately the British displacement. Germany, he says, will gladly rerfain from further increases or reduce if the British Admiralty will set a real and not a paper example. Chaos still reigns in New York and the neighbouring States as the result of the fierce blizzard that has been raging. The damage to property is estimated at millions of dollars. The streets of one city are packed wirh ics and snow, and the traffic has been totally disorganised. Some districts are wholly isolated, The prospects of a thaw are regarded with apprehension. There is a likelihood of an epidemic arising from the garbage lying; in the streets. The Australasian Women'B Conference resolved that all members of the association refrain from following the p-evailing fashion of indecorous attire. The mover made a warm condemnation of the prevailing fashions, and said it was dreadful to sit in trams and trains with women who had lost all sense of decency and modesty. She was surprised that the Government bad not taken action. If the unfortunate class of women wore Buch costumes the police would arrest them. It was degrading to respectable women to see others wearing insufficient clothing to cover the body. She saw a window display of tango underskirts being viewed by more men than women. (A delegate interjected, "Like their cheek.") Another Bp«aker urged women to take action to prevent such displays of indecency, which she described as shocking and disgraceful.