Australia.
NO GERMANS AS COMRADES. A COMPLAINT FROM NEW BRITAIN. / (Received 10.10 a.m.) Sydney, October 31. A meeting of Lithgow ironworkers decided to ask the management to discharge a number of German employees. Tho management declared that they wore good workmen and good citizens, hut they were willing to concede to the request. Arrivals from New Britain complain of ill-treatment of white prisoners in German hands. "CROMWELL’S IRONSIDES.” (Received 10.10 a.m.) Sydney, October 31. Mr J. R. Smith, a New Zealand journalist, has arrived from Londorj. Referring to the type of Kitchener’s recruits, he.said ho was told that one lot of 50,000 reminded him of Crom- . well’s ‘lronsides, being selected from Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists, filled with religious fervour. They , prayed nightly to God to strengthen their hands to break Prussian militarism. This fervour was backed by splendid physical powers.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 55, 31 October 1914, Page 6
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140Australia. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 55, 31 October 1914, Page 6
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