Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 60, 10 July 1915, Page 5

Australia

HOSPITAL SHIP AT FREMANTI £. United Press Association. Fremantle, July 9 The hospital ship Kyarra has arrived with 11 officers and 29 privates on board. TRADING WITH THE ENEM\ Sydney, July 9. .Mahias. a Ger man-American citizen, was fined £3lO for attempting to trade with the enemy. THE EXPORT OF SHEEPSKINS. STARTLINC INCREASES OF LATE (Received 9.35 a.m.}., Sydney, July 10. A comparative table of the export of sheepskins shows there has been an extraordinary increase since tin* war broke out. Last August 2000 sheepskins with wool were exported to America, the number rising in October to 1.37,902. In the same moot lis of the previous year there was no export at all, there being only 330 skins for the whole six months from July to December. The total exports far the were 389,549, valued at £78,433, compared to 87,533, valued at £17,517 in the previous year. The export of skins without wool is equally startling. From July to December the number was 103,092. compared to nothing for the same period in the previous year. It is suggested that Germany is behind the business, and a Federal inquiry into the destination of the skin* is being demanded.

NEW ZEALANDERS ENLIST. Received 9.20 a.m.) Sydney, July 10. Several New Zealanders are enlisting. One stated , that may more would pay the fare to Sydney and enlist so as to save time, exeept for the fact that there were detrimental reports of the unliealthintww of Liverpool Camp.