Australia

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 221, 25 February 1915, Page 5

Australia

HELP FOR BELGIUM. WOOLLEN MILLS COMMANDEERED. INFORMATION FOR THE ENEMY. Melbourne, February 24. The Commonwealth is appealing against the Magistrate's decision in the case Commonwealth v. Perth Daily News As a first instalment in reply to the new Belgium apnea), the New South Wales Pastoralists' Union is sending two thousand carcases of mutton. It has already forwarded' thirty thousand earcases for British and Belgian relief. Mr Pearce states that, in 'response to the British Armv Council's appeal, arrangements were being made to examine and forward irregular non-com-commissioned officers under 45 years of age.

Sydney, February 24. The Federal authorities have' commandeered the output of certain woo)-h-n mills and factories in New South Wales for military purposes. GERMAN INGENUITY. AN INTERESTING PHASE. Received 24, 8.25 p.m. Sydney, February 24. Theodore Tobias, a German "on the staff of the YVnrtcmberg Electric Plate Company, who said he was naturalised in New Zealand in 1007-8. but not in Australia, was charged with attempting to trade with the enemy. According to th 0 Crown case Tobias allegedly tried !o send letters containing orders through Professor Finch, who attended the Brit-i.-h Seiencel Congress, andj two other sources, but no money was sent to Germany.

Tobias, in his evidence, admitted writing to his firm in October last suggesting that they open a factory in England at the end of the war, take parially finished goods from Germany to England, and finish there, stamping them as British-made, thus overcoming prejudice against German goods. He informed his firm that Australia and New Zealand would rush goods stamped "British." The case is unfinished.