Australia

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 7 January 1915, Page 8

Australia

THE BROKEN HILL AFFAIR. THE TURKS' CONFESSION. Sydney, January G. The Broken Hill police have been handed a document, which is alleged to have been found at the, place the Turks were shot. It is written in an Eastern language. In it Abdulla, for Gool, slates that Gool wanted to fight and kill the British "because they were fighting his country. lie adds: "I never interfered with .anyone here and no one interefered with nic. I have 110 enemies and nobody told me to do it. I have told nobody. As God is my witness nobody knows except us two." Abdulla, on his own behalf, writes: "1 was worried over being summoned. He (Gool) talked over my troubles and then prayed to God that life was no good or use to us." He adds: "No one interfered with mo except the court and some larrikin children who threw stones at me for wearing a turban. That is why : I wear the turban to-day. Nobody but God knows what we two are going to do. I swear to God tins is true."

THE SEIZURE OF WHEAT. Sydney, January 6. A meeting of grain merchants strongly protested against the Government's seizure of wheat us an uncalled-for interference with business, and declared that it was nonsense to say the Act was vvrking smoothly. Merchants stated I hat they had received innumerable letters of protest from growers and fai mors.

BRITISH COLONIALS IN GERMANY. BETTER TREATED TEIAN ENGLISHMEN. Received 0, 8.45 p.m. Sydney, January 0. Mr Coghlan has cabled the Premier that tin? American Ambassador at Berlin states that British colonial subjects are treated with greater consideration than other Britishers, and their birth certificates are thus helpful.

| GERMANS LEAVING NEW BRITAIN. Received (i, 8.30 p.m. Sydney, January 0. i Eighty-five Germans ' who surrendered |at Ilerbertshohe are departing by the . Sonoma on the lfith, the terms of the | surrender stipulating that no obstacles should be placed in the way of their returning to Germany at tho earliest opportunity. DEARTH OF ATHLETES. Received 6, 8.30 p.m. Sydney, January 0. Mr Hill, secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Union, states at least half of the State's Rugby Union players have joined the colors, and the union will have to thoroughly re-organise for next season. Swimming, boxing, cricket, and other forms of sport are heavily and daily being weakened by enlistment. MARRIED MEN'S BURDEN. Received (i, 8.20 p.m. Melbourne, January 0. The nvilitary authorities are embarasscd owing to a considerable number i)f married men ha ving isilisted as bachelors, and gone to the front without making provision for their wives and families.

THE PRICE OP MEAT. Received 6, 11.13 p.m. Sydney, January 6. The Government lias referred the price iif meat to the Commodities Coinmis(ion. A WAR LIBEL" CASE. Received 0, 8.30 p.m. Sydney, January (5. The Vacuum Oil Company is claiming €20,000 for alleged libel contained in an article published in the Ago, headed "Tiading with the Enemy."