Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 63, 10 November 1914, Page 6

Australia

"WET" CANTEENS ABOLISHED.

(Keceived '10.30 a.m.) Melbourne, November 10. Senator Pearce has decided to place the Australian troopships on the same footing as those of New Zealand by abolishing the wet canteens.

PREFERENCE TO THE ALLIES.

(Received 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, November 10

The City Council's electric lighting committee adopted a recommendation to give preference to Britain and her Allies.

LABOR AND THE GERMANS.

(Received 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, November 10,

The Railway Workers' and General Labourers' Association,, .discussed,, pa] movement not to'work alongside Germans. A resolution . was passed deploring the 'introduction 'of "racial antagonism into the ranks of unionism, Which is nothing more or less, than OrganisecL inhumanity, enacted under the guise of patriotism, and declaring that the workers of Australia had no quarrel with the workers of Germany Or of any other country, their quarrel being with the ruling classes. "THE KINGS SERVICE." , ' : ! ' ( " A STIRRING SPEECH BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Melbourne, November 10. At the Lord Mayor's banquet the Governor-General made a rousing speech on the Britishers' doings in the war. "We have," he,said, "lost men and lost ships, but have gained in prestige. We are a greater nation than when the war began, and will no longer live on past achievements—achieving ourselves. Peace is impossible until the weight of Germany, the sole warrant of her success, is broken—till Germany has ceased to be a supreme power, which no treaty and no international mw can bind. There can be no peace till Germany re-enters the ranks of ordinary law-abiding nations." He added: "I would that time-and chance were" on the side of many of us so that we might come forward in, the King's service."