AUSTRALIA.
UNIVERSAL SERVICE. FAVORED AT PUBLIC MEETING. Received Sept. 20, 10.35 pjn. Sydney, Sept. 20. An overcrowded public meeting of the Universal Service League appointed officers and carried a platform. Mr. Holman emphatically declared that the voluntary system in Australia had not produced anything like the result it had in Britain. We wanted nothing but a system that would double or treble our numbers at the front. Other speakers favored universal service.
CASUALTIES TO DATE. Received Sept. 20, 10.55 p.m. Sydney, Sept. 20. To-day's list brings the casualties to: Dead, 2GS officers and 3802 men; wounded, 538 officers missing, 45 officers' and 1532 men. MENINGITIS EPIDEMIC. Melbourne, Sept. 20. There have been four deaths and three new eases of meningitis during the week just ended. It is announced that a supply of Flexner's serum has arrived from A'meriea. It is anticipated that its use will make a great difference in the death rata,
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1915, Page 5
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