Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1915, Page 5

Australia

United Pekbb Association. Sydney, January 22. Mrs-Pearce laid the keel at the Cockatoo Dock of the destroyer Swan, sister ship to the Derwent. Female teachers in public schools are offering t« undertake increased duties in order to release male teachers for military duty. A conference of Australasian consignees of the German vessels interned in South African and Dutch East Indian ports is being held by the Chamber of Commerce, New Zealand being represented. It has been decided to. appoint a representative to proceed to Java, authorised to take the necessary action to secure the release of the cargoes' originally Ijound for Australia and New Zealand which are understood to be aboard various German and Austrian vessels in the several ports. v Mr Pearce has given an emphatic denial of the German-made stories regarding the alleged doings of Australian officers and their wives in Cairo, and the sinking of the warship Australia. He points out that no wives went with the Expeditionary Force, and that the authorities very recently had communicated with the warship, which reported “All well!”