Australia

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 1 February 1915, Page 5

Australia

BELGIAN RELIEF FUND. Received 1, 5.15 p.m. Sydney, February 1. The Belgian Relief Funds for January | total eighteen thousand sterling, with I the Government subsidies. MUTUAL DEFENCE POLICIES. MR FISHER'S VISIT. .Sydney, January 30. The Telegraph, in leader, commencing on Mr Fisher's visit, urges the i'.eci ssity of reciprocity and mutual sy - te;:,atising of the defence policies. Australia at present is bearing pra 'Veally tlm whole of the white man's buri 'ii in th 1 Pacific, although New ini torests are practical'/ identical. Th? d" ; ppear.nee of i<y.niai.v from Polynesia in addition to New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipe'lago has increased Australia's tropical responsibilities and time is ripening for concerted action. A RUMOUR DENIED. 1 w 'ALIEN ENEMIES TO BE INTERNED. Melbourne, January 30. Mr Pearce, denying knowledge of the wild rumour concerning* the death of a New Zealand trooper in Egypt, states (that all deaths in the Australasian . forces are immediately cabled to headquarters. The authorities have received 110 information of any such incident, whifch would certainly have been sent. New military regulations direct the internment of all enemv subjects aged IS to 50. Alien enemies are not permitted , to frequent hotels and places of amusement. The circulation of enemy newspapers is prohibited. The regulations generally will be enforced by more stringent measures.