AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 7 September 1915, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

VARIOUS INTERESTING ITEMS.

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MELBOURNE, Tim Day. Writing from Ghezireh, on July 15, to Lady Ferguson, Colonel J. \y. Springthorp e states that iho Red Cross organisation in Egypt feiiej 10 an almost incredible degree. To date 'hem is no depot near th e front and no arrangements for forwarding cmfcrus. The depot wa s only established at Lemos weeks after it was needed ami there was the same lack of preparations and comforts on troopships bringing, wounded to Alexa-jdriai. Ju the Ca*ro> liospitals at first the wounded simp'y arrived in the clothes they stood in.. There was a great contrast in hospitals, under Britdsh-Egyotnn contrci, and Australian hospital cou'.d hardly heexaggerated. They were as commendable and satisfactory as ours were "insatisfactory and open to condom* ation. The same tale of neglect applies to transports conveying wjunded l a*d sick to Australia;. i (Reed, 8:33 5,™.) MELBOURNE, Tis Daily. Mr Pearc e has denied the reported? plot for a rising hi New Guinea. 2Je explains that as a result c' rcnfideiitial information a search was i.isiitvN ed which revealed that certain wrte* including some German had broken theiT parole ano had rte» livered up> their arms ts requested* Three were arrested, but nothing in the nature of a rising occurred. ; The Imperial Army Jouocil has accepted the Commonwealth's offer to or--1 ganise and equip a remount unit for service in Egypt. The age Hnwt Las been extended to fifty; in order to

release younger men who- are now terming horses.

ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY.

REGARDING N.Z. AND AUSTRALIA. I BRISBANE, September 6. Japanese files snow that early in 1 August the Japanese Trade Associn- • | tion asked the Minister for Foreign, - j Affairs to secure the inclusion of A«s> i ! tralia and New Zealand in the AngTo» i J Japanese commercial treaty and to J»t> r prove the relations with European »v\ , i American countries in connection with. i . . .- immigration in connection with the ess | pulsion of Giorman resign ts n-ncl ih* i prohibition of any further "doalhvg with : German firms.