Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 21, 29 April 1916, Page 5

Australia

LABOR TALKS OF PEACE. ■|' . —•' .': | Dnit«d Pbxsb Association. --<? Sydney, April 28. The Labor Council Conference carried a peace motion that Senator f Pearce (Minister of Defence) be approached and urged to send the following message to the working class organisations throughout the world:— "The Conference sends fraternal greetings to the workers of every country, and implores them to immediately take action simultaneously, and force their respective Governments to openly (pronounce for themselves the terms of peace and the time of the negotiations." UNIVERSAL MILITARY SERVICE. (Received 830 a.m.) • . Sydney, April 29. . - The Australian Natives' Association and the Universal Service League are combining in favor of a conscription campaign, and are preparing a monster petition to present to the Federal Government, urging the necessity of # universal military service., r / ( LIST NO. 166.

(Received 8.30 a.m.) Sydney, April 29. Injured.—Private L. W. A. Scott. Wounded (second occasion), Private" J. McCullagh. IH._Piivates F. W. Freestone, W. H. Gore, C. Maule, Driver C. L. C. Smith. Dangerously ill.y-Private A. E. Fisher. Convalescent.—Private J. E. Considine. ■' Returned to duty.—Drivers P. J. Cox. J. Primmer, Sapper V. Gy [Ewhiteman, Privates J. R. Reid, Ji" Laureason/A. L. Telford. ] The list shows that 51.1 have returned to duty. , ' j !after-the-war immigrants. (Received 10.35 a.m.) Sydney, April 29. At a luncheon given by the Colonial .Institute, Sir Pider Haggard, in reiferring to the urgent necessity for land settlement to keep the Empire ,intact, appealed to Australia »o get a share of after-the-war immigrants ,to prevent the United States mopping them up. CHAMPION BOXER ENLISTS. (Received 10.35 a.m) H Sydney, April Hughie Meehagan, a former lighl-*' weiglit champion boxer, has enliste^^