Australia.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 292, 19 May 1915, Page 5

Australia.

THE ALIEN PROBLEM. GENERAL WAR ITEMS. Melbourne, May 18. Arrangements are being completed to receive the Dardanelles wounded. It is estimated that 4000 beds will >l>e required. They will be distributed throughout the various States. Sydney, May .18. Seven hundred and forty Union players have enlisted. Madame Melba is organising a Polish relief fund. The State Government to date has shipped lfi,Gol,ooolb of meat for the Imperial Army, of a value of £371,8: Hi. .With a view to assisting enlistment, Mr. Hqlman is circulating a portion of the French Commission's report on German atrocities in northern France, lie says it is a horrifying document, and none reading extracts from this report will oppose any steps calculated to bring the authors of the outrages to justice. Melbourne, May IS. Mr. Fisher wired General Botha Australia's congratulations on the entr.v of the Union forces into the cnenni's capital. ' Replying to the Federal 'Government's 'offer of munition workers, the Imperial authorities state that the question of transport and testing workmen on arrival make it difficult of acceptance. In view of this reply none will be sent. Six hundred applied to go to England. The Postal authorities have been advised that there were no Australasian mails aboard the Lusitaniu. In connection with the movement against Germans, a well-known German resident writes that it is not a fact that every naturalised German owes allegiance to his native country. Up to tiio age of 17 a lad born in Germany can renounce hi* nationality conditional on his emigrating, and the German Government in its turn renounces him as a "national and all claims on his military service or allegiance. The writer adds that he, like many others, has availed himself of this law.

The miners of Kcwcastle and Maitland districts brought pressure to boar, resulting in German and Austrian employees leaving the pits. The committee of the Deutsclier Turnverein, one of the closed Oennaii clubs, offered the Federal Government the premises as a hospital or wounded soldiers,