AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 81, 31 August 1914, Page 8

AUSTRALIA

SECOND CONTINGENT TO BE *|.-y T RE SE-NT. ' :

MDJifiAL raßMll-UfS MANIFESTO.

CAULE FROM loki) ROBt'RT.S.

Received 31, 12.5(1 am A!,- r. , T -; lc , il,om »<'. August a©. ih. Cook, Federal iTemier. lias is-s<u-.l a ~ml,ti<-nl manifesto. "The eloc h. g, the most in-lentous- political • y that h ;is ewr fallen to. their lot. In the midst of uuparallolcd political ens ? we are sudferly i.recipilated into ..i- gloat intonwtwnaj struggle, for cx.with fiecdom ,s set up throughout westein civilisation.

fr.m.'l took ,, t .' ltd,l>l - states that the ouhle ~, which v,e, toother witO, t'he i t»t ot the Empire, arc involved, wo-in-ses to be ot considerable duration Our -national existence is at stake We, mus be prepared to take our share it the iburden without Hinchiug- from he sacrifices involved. We have nearly completed arrangements u> despatch an expeditionary force of twenty thousand to jom t'he British 10-rees'n.ow i„ the held. But our efforts Tcust not cca,se with the despatch of this fow> J.ord KitclKiier- j s enrolling \oliiinteers tor iurther drafts to supp'oir.ent th<forces at present lighting in frence We would fail in our duty we' followed on the same lines. The (,'ove-n----iwiit therefore proposes to call for vol-unteers-to- hirt'hra- cnntiugcMs Lord Roberts cabled: "iV-ngratr-lato Australia on the contingent about to sail. 1 feel that they wi!i receive * 'hearty welcome, and'that unbounded success .will be theirs. I am proud to tc Colonel in-Chief.''