AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 143, 11 November 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

' SPEECH BY GOVERNOR-GENERAL ■GERMANY MUST BE HUMBLED. TRADE PREFERENCE TO BRITALS AND HER ALLIES. Melbourne, November 10. At the Lord Mayor's banquet the Gov-ernor-General, in a rousing speech on Britishers' doings in the war, said: "We have lost men and we have lost shops, but we have gained prestige, and are a greater nation than when the war began We no longer live on our past achievements, but are achieving things ourselves. Peace is Impossible until the weight of Germany, the sole warrant of her success, is broken, till Germany has ceased to be a supreme power which no treaty and no international law can bind. There can be no peace till Germany re-enters the ranks of ordinary law-abiding nations." Sydney, November 10. The Railway Workers and General Labourers' Association discussed a movement not to work alongside Germans, and passed a resolution deploring the introduction of racial antagonism into the ranks of unionism, which was noth. ins; more nor less than organised inhumanity enacted under the guise of patriotism. The resolution declared ,that the workers of Australia had no quarrel with the workers of Germany or .any other country. Their quarrel was -with the ruling classes. Melbourne, November 10. Mr Pearce has decided to place the Australian troopships on the same footing as those of New Zealand, by abolishing the wet canteens. Sydney, November 10. The (Sty Council electric lighting committee has adopted a recommendation to give preference to Britain and the Allies.

METAL COMPANIES' OFFICES SEARCHED WITHOUT RESULT. Received 11, 12.45 a.m. Sydney, November 10. The military authorities searched the offices of two" metal companies, hut no evidence of dealing with the enemy was disclosed.