Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6, 6 September 1915, Page 5

Australia

MYSTERIOUS STEAMER. !■. ciu; j i n■ i '■ ii | Germany and the east rr » 1 : / ' ‘ . INDIES. / 1 ■i ■ ;-t: i(i | / , ■ T ,isf Unitf-d Phicss j Association. \| | I ..Bidsbdiiß,. SeptepjbeiV ().' News has been brought b^.^he -Tivs-' man that a mysterious streamer l wafti brought to Batavia under convd’v of Dutch destroyers. It was alleged that a large quantity of arms and various parts of submarines were discovered aboard the vessel which is being strictly watched. The Tasman 'also states that the .Dutch authorities 'discovered German intrigues among 1 the native population, there being a movement set afoot to promote a Japanese rising. | . COMMERCIAL \ (’ . J.i (TREATY. ;j• |/ (Received f).o a.m.) Brisbane, September G. .Passengers; by the Hitochimaru ) front; Japifii i: state that the Japan Trade Association has requested the Japanese Ministers to include Australia? and New Zealand in the AngloJapahesefcommercial treaty. INVALIDED COLONEL’S VIEWS. GERMANY CAN CARRY ON FOR THIRTY YEARS. (Received 5.20 'a.m.) Hobart, September fi. Colonel Cameron, who has been invalided from the Dardanelles, makes eulogistic reference to. the exploits of the Australians and New Zealanders. He considers that Germany is capaide of carrying on the war for thirty years. Australia, he considers, should lead the Empire in adopting compulsory sendee and send a quarter of a million meij to .the front. There must be a great need of more men if the war is to lie brought to an early conclusion. ;> , X ♦ M ' v«