AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 69, 11 August 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

A SECOND FORCE ORGANISING. SCARES IN COMMERCE DEPRECATED BRITAIN'S NAVAL SUPREMACY SAFE. Received 10, 9.40 p.m. Sydney, August 9. Anyone under nineteen years is ineligible for the expeditionary force. Mr. Millen, Minister of Defence, notifies that the Government lias decided to organise a small mixed naval and military force to serve within or without Australia. The force will be quite distinct from that organising for service ill Britain. I Mr. Cook, the Premier, has issued a statement that the fact that the country was committed to projects involving heavy cost demanded that there shall be no stoppage in developing tJhg energies of the people. Trade must continue as usual. Efforts should be made to increase rather than curtail national bnsiness. After deprecating the fact of importers countermanding orders, lie says there is no justification for the tear of Britain's mastery of the sea being endangered. The seaway at present was quite open. The census returns for 1911 showed that there were 32,090 Germans in tlie Commonwealth. The butter merchants have decided not to iu"rease prices. SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE. COAL OX THE CONTRABAND LIST. Received 10. 11.10 p.m. Sydney, August 10. The Stock Exchange has closed for another week, when the position will be reconsidered. Wheat is steady; 4s 2d is asked and 4s offered. Coal is declared conditional contraband. The authorities must be satisfied that shipments are unlikely to be diverted for the use of the enemy, or being taken to a place where they are likely to be taken by an enemy.