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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 3, 4 May 1915, Page 6

With a view to preventing, if possible, outbreaks of national feeling among the cosmopolitan population of the city, saloon-keepers in San Francisco are displaying warnings to the natrons of, their bars in the following terms : —"Please do not discuss the Elirbpeati war. If you want to fight, go to war. We are neutral." At the Melbourne City Court a charge of having attempted to trade with the enemy was preferred against Theodore /wicker, importer, of 20-"> William Street. Melbourne, and defendant was fined the maximum penalty, £SOO, with live guineas costs. As an instance of how the welfare :>f our boys is receiving consideration, it may be mentioned that the Stratford Patriotic Committee lias despatched seventy-live parcels addressed to soldiers from this district on active service. Each parcel contains two pair of socks and a packet of cigarettes. William Vivian Wliitta, charged with publishing betting informato'u pleaded guilty. Defendant, who bad twelve previous convictions against him, was fined £lO and costs.—Tho third trial of John Alexander McKinnon, on charges involving complicity in the customs frauds of 1912, commenced in the Supreme Court this morning, and is proceeding.