Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 44, 22 June 1915, Page 5

Australia

I AUSTRALIA’S QUOTA. I i REALISATION OF THE ISSUE. DmTITT) PkKSB ASSOCIATION. (Received 10 a.in.) Melbourne. June 22. Mr Pearce speaking at a recruiting meeting in tlie Town Hall, said that Australia had done more than anybody expected. She had sent 08,522 men. and 15.978 were in training. Australia was pledged to send live thousand men in reinforcements every month, but she must set out to do what she can to double or treble these figures. Recruiting could lie very much better, specially in Victoria. The British authorities had informed the Government that every man was wanted. He knew there had been difficulties in the way of equipment, which the Government had surmounted. He was confident that with the realisation of the issue, Australia can double the number of men in the field.

RUMOR OF GERMAN RISING. (Received 9 a.m.) Melbourne, June 22. Regarding the threatening letters which have been addressed to a number of Aldermen to the effect that a number of Germans to the strength of an army corps are waiting to rise, Mr Pearce (Minister of Defence) declared he is not at all anxious, as all the German reservists have been interned , THE SUPPLY OF AMMUNITION. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Sydney, June 22. Senator Gardiner, vice-president of the Federal Executive Council, said that though difficulties had been encountered in the establishment of a double shift at the small-arms factory, it would be started in a few weeks. A meeting of Labor men at Lithgow strongly resented the delay, and decided to notify Mr Pearce that the Amalgamated Society of Engineers were willing to supply all the skilled hands required within a fortnight. SYMPATHISER WITH ENEMY FINED £lO.

(Received 9.80 a.in. ) Melbourne, June 22. In an argument with other men, a man named Leslie Bentley praised the Germans, calling them the cleverest race on earth, and stating that the German Emperor was too clever a man to be a tyrant. Referring to the Australasians killed at the Dardanelles, he said: “Good enough for them! They went looking for it, and they got it!” Bentley was fined the maximum penalty of £lO. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. Sydney, June 21. The total Dardanelles casualties are:— Killed.—Officers 129, men 1871. Wounded.—Officers 309, men 6800. Missing.—Officers 19, men 366. The forty-second casualty list is Killed in action. —Seventy-five men, including Private F. C. R. Simmon (a New Zealander). Died of wounds.—Two hundred men; Lieutenants Kosh and King, and 179 men, including Private C. Morell (New Zealander). Dangerously 111.—Three, (Received 11.5 a.m.) Sydney, June 12. Private Philip Bond, killed in action at the Dardanelles, went with the New Zealand contingent. THE IMPORTATION OF HORSES. (Received 11.5 a.m.) Melbourne, June 22. The Federal authorities increased tlie stringency of the regulations regarding the importation of New Zealand horses, and a certificate from a Government veterinary must accompany stating, of his own knowledge, the animal has not been within a country whence the importation of horses to Australia is forbidden under the Quarantine Act within the three preceding years.

A PURCHASE IN NEW ZEALAND. (Received 11.5 a.m.) Melbourne, June 22. Mr Pearce states the Defence Department has saved twenty-one thousand pounds by the purchase of four thousand tons of New Zealand fodder. The difference between me New Zealand and the Australian price is four pounds five shillings per ton. DEAR BUTTER. (Received 11.5 a.in. ) Melbourne, June 22. The price of butter has been raised wholesale and is now Is lid per lb. THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. (Received 11.5 a.m.) Melbourne, June 22. Mr Justice Hood has been appointed jto act as a Royal Commission to inJquire into the export of Victorian .frozen meat.