Australia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 90, 22 March 1916, Page 3

Australia.

WORK FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS UNtTEn PIIPHS ASBOCI/iTinSr. (Received 9.55 a.m.) j 1 " ! " Melbourne, March 22. ‘ The Government is planting seven million tfees, necessitating the provision of fourteen thousand acres, at a cost of £20,000. Returned ‘soldiers will carry out the work. NEW ZEALAND ENLISTMENTS. i ‘ | rCI S-'-i 11. .-iVf Ij I i!:I■ I i lit, ;■! liU(Received 9.55 a.m.) Sydney, March 2. ■ - A number of Now Zealanders wlio have enlisted have given as a reason that they beard that recruits in Sydney were sent straight to the front instead of waiting indefinitely as the ease of New Zealand. BRAN AND POLLARD PRICES. i / (Received 9.55 a.m.) . Sydney, March 22. A proclamation has fixed the price of bran and pollard at £4 10s per ton. GERMAN LIES REFUTED.

yj £. (Received 9.55 a.m.) y jV’T' Sydney, March 22. -’’"Captain Bean, Australian official cables from Cairo undor yesterday’s-date, and gives a flat denial to amazing statements being circulated by the Germans—apparently with the object of influencing Neutrals and Alahommedans—of alleged troubles with the Indian troops in Egypt, including a battle between the Indians and Australians. Captain Bean states that there is the utmost tranquility and loyalty amongst both the Indians and Egyptians, and adds that the campaign against the Arabs practically ended in disastrous results to the Araiis. The Turco-Gerinan expedition against the Canal had proved a costly failure.