Australia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 60, 13 March 1915, Page 5

Australia.

AUSTRALIA SENDS 300 MEDICAP MEN. United Press Association. (Received 9 a.m.) Melbourne, March 13. With the departure of 100 doctors now enlisting, Australia’s contribution totals 300.

CRUEL SLANDER ON TH£

TROOPS.

Melbourne, March 13

Mr Pearce (Minister of Defence), emphatically denies the cruel slander that a large proportion of members of the expeditionary forces returned in thp hospital ship Kyarra suffering from venereal diseases. A medical officer states that the percentage cf such cases is exceedingly small.

SOW AN ACRE OF WHEAT FOR

BELGIUM.

(Received 10.20 a.m.) Adelaide, March 13

A local Government Associatii n that every ’farmer should sow an acre of wheat for Belgium.

i QUEENSLAND’S PRACTICAL

PATRIOTISM.

(Received 10.20 a.m.) Brisbane, March 13. The Queensland patriotic fund totals £240,000.

trading with the enemy.

Melbourne, March 12

Odin Remington, trading as McLean and Co., was fined £2OO for attempting to trade with the enemy. The evidence of Remington was to the ■effect that he was an American citizen, doing business in Australia. He had not carefully read the proclamation but when he discovered that his trading was illegal he “dropped it like a hot potato.”

MEAT FOR THE SOLDIERS. i Sydney, March 12. The State Government has definitely taken over on behalf of the Impel ial authorities the whole of the meat, estimated at from 250,000 to 300,000 carcases, stored in the city refrigerators. A consignment of 9000 carcases will be forwarded in a few days. The Imperial Government provides all the necessary freightage.