AUSTRALIA
GERMAN STEAMER'S PASSENGERS ARRIVE.
SEARCHED BY GERMAN CRUISER. Received 2, 8.50 p.m. Brisbane, September 2. The steamer Houtman Ims arrived, bringing passengers rom tlie Roon (cabled August 11). The Houtman's captain states that when eir route to Batavia liis vessel was boarded by tlie officers of the German gunboat Geier. His papers were examined, and l>e was then allowed "to proceed. (Advices were received on August 11 that the German mail steamer Roon, ■overdue at Fremantte, was sheltering in a neutral port in Java. Many Australian passengers were aboard. The Roon is a steel screw steamer of 8714 tons gross register, built in 1902. She has a speed of 14% knots. The Roon left Bremen on July 1, and Suez on July 20, for Australian ports.)
TILE UNEMPLOYED DIFFICULTY. (Sydney, September 2. Marshals appointed by the Prize Court have taken charge oi the seized German steamers.
The Government has appointed a relief board to deal with unemployment. Mr. Estell estimates that there are 20,000 unemployed in the State. Five thousand men made a demonstration at Broken Hill, demanding the starting of the works, in place of the present relief coupons.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 3 September 1914, Page 5
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191AUSTRALIA Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 3 September 1914, Page 5
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