Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 37, 13 October 1915, Page 5

Australia

' United Press Association. (Received 8.30 a.m.) Sydney, October 13. A naturalised German, named Becker, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for sending a revolver through the post. The defence was that it belonged to a friend and he was returning it in ignorance of the law. Becker had previously been convicted for contravention of the War Precautions Act. The Magistrate, in sentencing him said, “My reading of your nationality is that you are ignorant of nothing that is hurtful to other people.” Over three hundred soldiers in the isolation area at the Liverpool Camp broke away. They bombarded the guards with jam tins s’id Other missiles. They burned the tents and cleared, very few being recaptured. Mr Hughes, at a meeting held in connection with the Moral Exchange, deplored the extent to which Australian productions had got into the enemy’s hands. He said he was sorry to say it. but it was a fact that in spite of such whole-souled Australian patriotism, Australian coal was supplied to the Geruiaft lie - ' 1which sank the Good Hope and the Monmouth. Melourno, October 13. The Metal Trade Federation has notified the employers that if the differences, including the increase ranging from 2’o to 25 per cent, are not settled by Saturday, they will strike (is Monday. Several thousand men will bo affected.