AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1919, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

LABOR EXTREMISTS EXPELLED. Received July 18, 7.50 p.m. Sydney, July 18. Besides Willis, the Labor Party has expelled Eosa and Rutherford, two other prominent extremists. SUCH IS FAME. Received July 18, 7.30 p.m. Sydney, July 18. Paul Freeman, of lasting lame, lias be.ii removed from the military hospital to the German internment camp.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. STRIKE LEADER FINED. Received July IS, 8.30 p.mMelbourne, July 18. Walsh, secretary of the Seamen's Union, was fined £IOO for encouraging the continuance of the strike. In the course of a statement, Walsh declared that now peace was secured, Austria and Germany Bhould be admitted as partners in the League of Nations. No reasonable excuse can be offered why we should not receive financial assistance from Germany in the shape of gold.

PAPUA FACED WITH STARVATION. Received July 18, 7.30 p.m. Melbourne, July 18. A wireless message from Port Moresby reports serious native distress owing to food supplies being exhausted. The natives of Papua are faced with starvation unless they are immediately relieved, A SAWMILL GUTTED. v v Received July 18, 8.30 p.m. Brisbane, July IS. Rooney's sawmill at Townsville was destroyed by fire, the damage amounting to £15,000. 'Rooney's suffered in a retent gun raid—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.