Australia..

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 10, 15 December 1915, Page 5

Australia..

EQUIPPING THE COMMONWEALTH’S FINE RECORD. ’ ’-V ■•’}'> 5 ; United Press Association. (Received 10.25 a.m.) Melbourne, December 15. The Defence Department states that the 'Australian manufacturers are able to turn out the. full infantry equipment. The Department designed and produced a purely Australian equipment. Fifteen thousand sets Were issued, and these were so satisfactory that a further hundred thousand have been ordered. Twenty-five per cent ...of the rifles issued to the expeditionaries were manufactured at Lithgo'iy.-u. The manufacture of mac-hine-gUhV will shortly be undertaken. ‘Since 'Abb? War, of 31)627 horses ab-v tained, 28,988 were purchased at a cost of £560,968, the remaining 2638 being donated, while 24,270,- were sent with the forces, : Two thousand five hundred vehicles, ten thousand sets of harness, and fifteen thousand sets of saddlery were also provided.

CAMPS AND RECRUITING.

(United Phesb Association.] Received 9-0 a.m.) Sydney, December 15

The military authorities, in addition to stiffening the test, propose holding a monthly medical examination at the camps and keep them in ordei as a few men were returned from Egypt as unfit. Letters are appearing ill appeal against the decision. Attestation forms for the new recruiting campaign are'available. Ihe ground-work of the scheme has been accomplished, and the organisers are confident of success.