AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 170, 4 January 1915, Page 8

AUSTRALIA

THE BROKEN HILL BATTLE. 1 1 s STROM, RACIAL FEELING. ' ONLY A FLAGSTAFF REMAINS. CF ''HE GERMAN CLUB. ENEMY SUBJECTS TO BE WATCHED. Received 3, 3.30 p.m. j ; Sydney, January 3. Broken Hill is quiet. " All the seven j wounded are progressing well except ( Campbell, whose condition is critical. An - inquest was opened and adjourned till Thursday. An under-current of racial feeling exists. A raid on the camel camp was frustrated by the police and military. A man climbed the flagstaff, the only stick remaining of the German Club and hoisted tlie Austrian flag, amid the cheers of the crowd. An Italain was arrested for thretaening to shoot a man. The crowd, thinking him an enemy subject, made ready to lynch him, but the police protected him. Mr Hughes has asked for details of Friday's acray, and says that if the act of the Turks shows the necessity, he will enforce rigid supervision of all enemy subjects. THE COMMONWEALTH FORCES. "SECOND TO NONE IN THE EMPIRE." Received 4, 12.15 a.m. I Melbourne, January 3. Mr. Pearce, replying to Mr. Cook's references to the inadequacy of the reinforcements, says that by the end of January Australia will probably have sent 42,000 men, and she will send 52,000 or 02,000 if possible. Brigadier-General Birdwood has cabled the Governor-General:—"l fully appreciate the honor of receiving the command of a body of men second to none in tlio British Empire." INTERCESSIONARY SERVICES. Received 4,12.45 a.m. Sydney, January 3. For the intercession services tlie churches were crowded with earnest , congregations.