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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 75, 2 August 1913, Page 5

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OIL FUEL IX THE NAVY

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Sydney Sun Special Cable.] London, August 1.

Mr Asquith (Prime Minister), m the House of Commons, stated that the use of oil fuel in the Navy began in 1904, and had extended since then. It was not a uew departure. Mr Churchill, replying to Lord Beresford, said they had let twentyfive oil fuel contracts during the past four years, and would be further contracts when necessary.

“ROLL UP! YE HEROES!”

Further despatches r.'om Viscount Gladstone include a Labor proclamation published in Pretoria stating: “In

the name of law and order those having no grievance are invited to enrol as special police to intimidate citizens who foolish ing think they have grievances against the present day pernicoii3 society. The reward is glory and the honor of keeping the workman in his place. Roll up! Rifles free, ye heroes!”

M IXERS FOR THE DOMINION

Sir Westby Percival (ex-Agent-Gen-eral for New Zealand), presiding at a meeting of the Blackwater Mines, stated that there was a deficiency of miners throughout the Dominion. There was lucrative employment awaiting emigrant miners. INSULT TO GERMAN FLAG. A German Pag on a tourist’s yacht was burnt by a bargeman at Nancy. He was promptly arrested and sentenced to ten days’ imprisonment.

RECORD RUSSIAN REVENUE. St. Petersburg, August 1. The half-year’s revenue is a record, being 145,000,000 roubles over the last corresponding half-year. GUIDES TO AIR TRAFFIC. ' Gas companies are painting directions on the roofs of gasometers to guide air traffic. AN IMPROVED DIRIGIBLE. Clement Bayard, the sixth of the m:,v type of dirigible, in trials, ascended arid descended with her propellers, not using ballast or gas.