Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 15, 18 May 1915, Page 8

Australia

MISCELLANEOUS. Dmitsd Phkbu ASSOCIATION. (Received 10.25 a.m.) Sydney, May IS. I Madame Melba is organising a iolish relief fund. The State Government to date has shipped 16,601,000 pounds of meat for the Imperial army, the value being £:371,830. ■\Vith a view to assisting enlistment, the Premier (Mr Holman) circulates a portion of the French Commission’s report on the German attrocities in northern France. He says: It is a horrifying document, and none reading the extracts from this report will oppose any steps calculated to hiing the authors of the outrages to justice. / Seven hundred and forty Rugby unionists have enlisted. Melbourne, May 18. ,Mr Fisher wired General Rotha Australia’s congratulations on the entry of the Union forces into the enemy’s capital. Arrangements are being completed to receive the Dardanelles' wounded. It is estimated that four thousand hods will he required to be distributed in the various States. (Received 10.35 a.m.) Sydney, May IS. Xu connection with the movement against the Germans, a well-known German resident writes: It is not a fact that every naturalised German owes allegiance to his country up to the age of seventeen. A lad born in Germany can renounce Ids nationality conditional on his emigrating. The German Government, in its turn, renounces hiHi as a national, and all claims to his military service or allegiance. The writer adds that he, like many others, availed himself of this law.

The minors of Newcastle and Maitland districts have brought pressure to/hoar, resulting in German and Austrian employees leaving the pits. Melbourne, May 18. The committee of the Deutscher Turnvereerf, one of the closed German clubs, has' offered the Federal Government the premises as a hospital for wounded soldiers. Replying to the Federal Government’s offer of munition-workers, the Imperial authorities state that the question of transport and testing workmen on arrival make it difficult of acceptance. In view of this reply, none will be sent. Six hundred applied to go to England. The postal officials advised that there were no Australian mails on board the Lusitania.

The State Cabinet discussed the earlier closing of hotels, and it is understood it intends to make the closing 7 hour ton o’clock instead of eleven-thirty.