In Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 99, 17 August 1914, Page 6

In Australia

SUGGESTED MEANS'OF ASSISTING l THE EMPSRE. ESTABLISHING PRIZE COURTS. RUSH OF VOLUNTEERS AND HANDSOME DONATIONS. (Received 9.15 a.m.) Sydney, August A strongly-backed movement is afoot to establish a citizens' war-chest j fund, with the object of assisting the I nation in the present crisis. Employers are placing boxes in their establishments to enable their employees to subscribe. A pri;:e crew from the warship Pioneer brought the German Australian steamer Xoumunster, en route from , Antwerp to Australia, with a general (( j cargo, into, Fremantle. A Prize Court

is being established in the various States to deal with the cases of seized

ships. The rush of volunteers and gifts of various kinds is unabated. White Bros., Belltres, have given £IOOO, also twenty-eight horses, towards mounting the expeditionary force. SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT WAR Melbourne, August 17. ( Sir Oliver Lodge, in an address at Wesley Church, said that though the conflict between science and religion was not over it was in its last stages. Science had always been true, though sometime* it became dogmatic. Religion in its most enlightened forms realised that, and it was ceasing to bo so dogmatic. NEWS FROM THE VARIOUS STATES Melbourne, August 16., Tha Edward Wilson trustees, who are part owners of tlie Argus, have donated £IO,OOO for the alleviation of distress in Victoria,*. The German steamer Lothringen, which arrived from Bremen and was unaware of the war, has been detained. The Orient steamers Orvieto and Omrah have been engaged as troopships. Brisbane, August 16. The Brisbane Turf Club has voted £IOOO to tha Patriotic Fund.