AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 76, 19 August 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

NO APPREHENSION. BRITAIN WILL RULE THE WAVES. Received 18, 8.55 p.m. Sydney, August 18. 'Mi - . T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales in London, lias cabled to Mr. Ilolman, the Premier, that he had interviewed the Colonial Secretary, who emphatically expressed hit conviction that there need be no apprehension that Britain will lose command of the seas. THE AUSTRALIAN FORCE. .PATRIOTIC] OUTBURST IN SYDNEY; Received 18, 8.53 .p.m. Sydney, August 18. A contingent of the expeditionary force which marched through the city, en route to Cockatoo Island, presented a fine spectacle. There were remarkable scenes of enthusiasm, crowds lining the streets and the bands playing patriotic I airs.

GERMAN SHIPS IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS.

Received 18, 8.35 p.m. Fremantle, August 18. Til officers of the -Omrah, which arrived at Fremantle to-day, report that t/hreo days ago thay heard German wireless messages between two vessels. Received 'lB, 8.35 p.m. Melbourne, August 18. The German steamer Wildenfels, from New York, was sighted off Cape Otway at 10 o'clock this morning. This vessel ! lias no wireless, and is therefore likely to be ignorant of the outbreak of war. EXPORTS -RESUMED.' PROVISION AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT. Sydney, •August 18.. Custom House returns show that exporters' confidence in Britain's command of the sea has been restored. Shipments of butter and meat overseas hayfe regained .the 'n'ormsil'. Twentytlireo steamers luive heen taken up, as troopships. Though considerable number* of workers, particularly in the mining districts, have 'been ' rendered idle, the Federal and State Governments an working together to mindmiso 'the dislocation of trade and unemployment. The Lord Mayor's fund has reached '£16,000, and the other funds are swelling rapidly, though soma are clashing. The Cricket Association lias dlonated £25. M'iselia E)man says Jiis country, Russia, can be depended to take part well in the campaign. She is able to put eight miUion soldiers in the field. Melbourne, August 18. The Lord Mayor's fund has reached £J0,7«0. •Mr. Millen proposes 'to pay the "widows of privates killed 1 in tins war an annuity of £SO, and each, elrild a quarter of such amount. Payments to officers' widows will 'be oro a graduated scale.