Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 47, 12 October 1914, Page 6

Australia

ALL QUIET IN NCW’ BRITAIN. a . (Received' 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, October 12. Latest reports from New Britain show. that there has bWn little fighting since th‘e capture of Rabaul. The natives have given some trouble, but there have been no further casualties. SYDNEYITE’S; RECENT VISIT TO GERMANY. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, October 12... Mr Hattricky a. well-known Sydney agricultural chemist, has returned from a visit to Germany. He 1 left Berlin by the last train before the declaration of war. He states that the Germans’ internal resources were such that they would be able to carry on the, war for a couple of years at least. Farm work was being carried on by boys and women. The rye crop garnered was exceptionally good and wheat and oats promised well. The bottling up of tne fleet made no far as the internal food supply is concerned. It was absurd to talk of starving Germany in that way. PRO-CERMAN SCHOOL TEACHER. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Melbourne, October 12. A State school teacher, an Anstra-liaij-bpfn German, was suspended for alleged' The parents of scholars declare that he read the press accounts of the war to the children, in ‘faV'p’itr'bf the Gemaiir and adverse to the Allies. ■ 1 1 .I 1 “