Second Edition. In Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 18 August 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. In Australia

VICTORIA’S PART.

£Bt Elsothio TuusGßAPn—Copyeiouc [United Press Association.]

(Received 10.10 a.m.) Melbohrrib, August 18. The Lord Mayor’s fund is now £4O, 760.

Mr Millen proposes to pay widows of 'jii-iVates killed in the war an annuity of £SO for each child. Payments tp officers will be on a‘graduated scale.

NEW &OUTH WALES.

(Received 10.10 a.m.) Sydney, August 18

Customhouse returns show that exporters’ confidence in Britain s command of the sea has been restored. Shipments of butter and meat overseas have regained normal. Twentythree steamers have been taken up as troopships. Though considerable numbers of workers, particularly in the mining districts, have been thrown idle, the Federal and State Governments are working together to minimise the dislocation of trade and unemployment. The Lord Mayor’s fund is £16,000, and the other funds arc swelling rapidly. The Cricket Association donated £25.

Mischa Elman, the noted violinist, says his country -(Russia) can be depended on to take her part well in the campaign. She is able to put eight million soldiers in the field.