Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 46, 23 October 1915, Page 8

Australia

implements ot war. United Pukss Association. (Received 8.25 a.m.) Sydney, Octoobr 23. I Captain BrowNl, of the Worcester-] shires, who was wounded in Flanders,* and lias been appointed to the stall' ol' 1 Duutrooii Military College, slates that' everyone on the eastern front ns now! armed with a tbroo-bJaded dagger.j It lias a wooden grip like the top on j a shovel, and the. blade protrudes between the fingers, and on Lho other side protrudes another longer blade. With the frontal blade one drives' straight forward, while the others are' used to stab backwards or uppercut. ! they are splendid for in-lighting. JI o 1 describes a number ol new types ol j inexpensive high explosives winch are] most destructive, adding that Britain! is now the paramount power as far as] bombs and hand grenades are concern--ed, and that she had a number of surprises iu these lines up her sleeves, j and would shortly spring upon the I foe. MISCELLANEOUS, Sydney, October 23. ■ Those answering “indifferent” to the- health question in (he war census are being asked to give details as to whether the stale of health incapacitates the person from ordinary work. It is stated that three hundred nurses have left New South Wales for the front, having kept up quarterly reinforcements of thirty. Melbourne, October 23. Senator Pearce (Minister ol Defence) announces that after consultation with the British Government, it has been decided that the contracts for munitions be extended from March 3i to dune 30.

Mtv Hughes states that the metal exchange will ho opened on November 8 th. Perth, October 23. The Taxation Commissioners’ report gives ten years’ \totalisator statistics shows that £3,517,351) passed through the machine, returning £87,116. Tire revenue tax of two and a-hall per cent, on the 1006 investments realised £223.200, and last year it was £lBl,BBl. Sydney, October 22. A feature of the new recruiting campaign is the addresses given by the returned soldiers, and their insistence of the urgent need to send immediate help to the boys in the trenches. All the speaker* used a sterner tone' than in , the previous campaign, with a hint that events lyay require something stronger Him. the present system of voluntaryism. Though recruiting lias improved, it is not fully up to expectations. Melbourne, October 22. Over ' eighty soldiers escaped loom the detention camp, and the majority are .still uncaptuved. Unless they return the authorities propose to expose them by publishing their names and descriptions. Of 551,961 war census cards so far sorted, 62.', per cent, of persons are classed as fit, 32 per cent, doubtful, and the rest unfit.