AUSTRALIA.
Si iiviUt.ATiOi\i uC-'Aim INVESTMENTS A OF 12S MILLIONS. deceived March ;!0, fi.3o p.m. Sydney, March 20. The Millions ('lub hiM'iicnn, vl.ieh was held .v.'ith the nbjeci. oi' stimulating investments in (he will' lonn, resulted in the busbies* men present contributing I14til),0llil. The A.M.l'. Society lias taken up .C2.0(i0,il0l). Mr. Wall instanced Kew Zealand's favorable eonlr'bulioas to war loans, and compared them Australia's. Since the war staru-.d unlil the present, loan closed, Australia would have spent 2;!: i millions of loan money on naval aud military operations, and had already raised from all sources ,t)i/.>,(li)0,000, the shortage being £128,000,001). The Government must have .C 10.000.000, and if they couldn't raise it voluntarily, then they would have to do it the el her way. GIiUMAN DESIGNS OX AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, March 20. The Hon. John Chanter <> a jipeech, said that when Genxiuiy obtained .luibaal 1 she established a base capable of accoinmodating the largest battleship, arid established a, powerful wireless pjent, and also accumulated large stores of oil and supplies. When wo occupied llabaul documents were found disclosing the whole' design of Germany to annex Australia.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1918, Page 5
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