Australia.
FOOTBALL UNION PROVIDES FOR DEPENDENTS OF DECEASED PLAYERS. United Peem Association. (Received 8.25 a.in.) Sydney, April 15. The Rugby League has approved of the principal of making provision for the wives and dependents of players killed in action. MISCELLANEOUS. Sydney, April 15. The Belgian National Fund for New South Wales is £19,000. Contributions now average £IOOO daily. An Australian soldier, writing from Egypt, gets in one for Mr. Martin Donohoe, the Sydney pressman, who lias made a name for himself on the battlefields of Europe as correspondent for the London Chronicle. '‘What did you think of your leaders?” he asked one of the Turkish prisoners. “Well,” said the barbarous Turk, in excellent English, “as Mart n Donohue said, some of them couldn't nu nage a circus, let alone an army.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 88, 16 April 1915, Page 5
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131Australia. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 88, 16 April 1915, Page 5
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