Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 11, 11 August 1916, Page 3

Australia

THE POSITION* IN' POLAND. Press Association—Copyright. (Received 11.15 a.m.) Melbourne, August 11. , Senator /Pea-rce : has , made availably the report of the committee for the fyejiefi of Poland. The report states that ' five- million people, are without resources and ten million are unemployed. Two hundred thousand villages were destroyed. The price of foods and medicines has increased 400 to 500 per cento.

j AR INDUSTRIAL 1 tftii,.';,','.?,! RANCEMENTS. 3 f/_" ■; S J ; ' WO!TOMU' (Received 11.15 a.m.) Melbourne, August 11. At the reception by tlie .VI etui ftxchango, Mr Hughes said ,the British Government had agreed that for toil years after the war for 100,000 tons of Australian concentrates they would advance half a million and establish electrolytic and spelter works. Arrangements would be made whereby France, Britain, and Belgium would absorb all the concentrates produced here. Britain, intends to make impossible a recurrence of our industrial vassalage to Germany. STRIKES IN WAR TIME. Press Association —Copyright. (Received 11.15 a.m.) Sydney, August 11. Since the commencement of the war, strikes-in the Railway Department resulted in the loss of £IB,OOO in wages.