COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 98, 1 December 1915, Page 4

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

United Press Association. (Received 8.40 a.m.) Sydney, December 1. Major-General Legge, commanding the Second Australian Division at Gallipoli is in hospital ill, but not seriously. Colonel Holmes has taken over the command. Farmers who hqve not enlisted are garnering the crops of those enlisted. There will he unfortunately a shortage of sugar for some time. Jam facn. tories require extra supplies to deal with the fruit crops. Advocates of the wet canteens are seizing upon the recent disturbances to urge the need of a beer canteen in the camps. They urge that if the men are compelled to go outside to secure supplies, the result is that they drink much more than they would at their disposal in the camps. Forty-five thousand pounds have been raised in connection with Allies Day already for cable to London for distribution in France. Poland, Serbia and Montenegro. The details of the tragedy at Ternora show that Douglas Hastie quarrelled with his daughter and fired a revolver and missed, but the girl dropped" from fright. The father, thinking she had been killed, immediately fatally shot himself.