Australia.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 262, 15 April 1915, Page 5

Australia.

FEDERAL PARLIAMENT, THE GOVERNMENT'S WAR POLICY. TO SEND EVERY AVAILABLE MAN. Received April 14, 0.15 p.m. Melbourne, April 14. The Federal Parliament bas opened. ■Mr. Fisher, the Premier, delivered a statement dealing with the war, showing that Australia had despatched or had in camp 70,101 troops, 30,940 horses, and 3098 vehicles. The total number of men sent abroad was 43,140. The unchanging policy of the Government was to train, equip and transport to the seat of war every available man fit to help in defeating the enemy. The Government had requisitioned twenty-two mills, which were working at their fullest capacity for military needs, the orders running to two million yards of cloth for uniforms, one million and a quarter yards for shirts, and a quarter of a million blankets. Respecting the navy, he expected the cruiser Brisbane would be launched and the destroyers completed this year.

PRAISE FOR MAORILANDERS. Received April 15, 12.10 am.. Sydney, April 14. The papers publish a three-column letter from Mr. Bean giving an interesting account of the part a hundred New Zealanders landed from the Nelson took in repelling the Turks on Suez i Canal on February 2. He mentions that ono New Zcalander was fatally shot. Troops near the New Zealanders suffered more severely, probably due to the Australasian natural ability in picking cover. The British officers commented on the New Zealanders' coolness. RECRUITING BRISK. Sydney, April 14. The influx of countrymen at Easter produced an exceptionally heavy quota of enlistments. The rifle clubs are also becoming a big feeder for recruiting. Since Juno last the clubs' membership in New South Wales has grown from 14,300 to 31,000 and is still steadily in-' creasing. \ .