AUSTRALIAN NEWS. NOT AT ALL UNLIKELY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 222, 17 September 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

NOT AT ALL UNLIKELY.

GERMANS IN STATE EMPLOY. DEMAND FOR DISMISSAL. AN UPROARIOUS PROTEST. (Received 9-j a.in.) SYDXEY-fthis day. There is a strongly growing movement against the retention of Germans in the State public service. Public speaker and correspondents to the newspapers are pressing the Government to take action in the matter. A local Government conference has resolved to urge the Premier to retire from the public service all persons of German descent. The New South Wales Premier (Mr. W. A. Holman) states that no unnaturalised Germans are employed in the public service. Only twenty-five naturalised Germans are employed, and they are in positions where the)- can do little harm, even if they were so disposed. Mr. Holman said that, inquiries were being made into each individual case, and he promised to give full information later. Mr. Holman, when speaking at an election meeting at Crow's Nest, was howied down, and was never able to proceed for more than three minutes at a time, owing to the interjections. Mr. Holman remarked that it was the Stadium trouble I over again. His statements regarding the Govern mc tit's work in the wheat areas and the manufacture of munitions were leceived with applause by the milder section of the audience. There was a terrific uproar when a man stood up and asked, "Do you think it a fair dinkum thing for men to volunteer when Germans are employed in the public service?" Mr. Holman promised to make a statement on Tuesday. He said that ever since the recruiting campaign started there had liecn a lot of young shirkers looking for excuses, of which the German cry was one. Anyone would think there were twenty-five thousand Germans in positions. The interjection of the remark -There arc not many Australians holding office in Berlin" caused another upheaval. Throughout the meeting a strong section was unmistakably hostile to Mr. Holman. STRIKE AT LITHGOW.

THE SMALL ARMS FACTORY AFFECTED. SYDNEY, this day. Owing to a dispute regarding the discharge of an employee at the Lithgow small arms factory a section of the workmen have struck. ALL-ROUND CONSCRIPTION. N.S.W. GOVERNMENT'S VIEWS. SYDNEY. September 16. The Vice-President of the Legislative Council, replying to criticisms passed on the Government of Xew South Wales, said I the Government believed in conscription; that was to say. conscription for the purpose of organising the whole forces and wealth of the nation and the strength and soui of the nation. Mr. Holman was par- | ticipating in such an organisation in defiance of the wishes oi many influential men of his own party. LIGHT CASUALTY LIST. SEVERAL NEW ZEALANDERS. SYDNEY. September IG. The 78th casualty list contains the following figures: Killed in action, four officers and seven men; died of wounds, 24 men; died of illness, six men; wounded, eight officers and 165 men, including Privates J. H. Lister and R. R. Chapman (New Zealanders i; in hospital at Malta through illness, 36, including Private P. Docherty (previously reported wounded), Sergeant R. Brown, Privates J. Brown, W. J. Wheatley, V. Turner; in Ghezireh Hospital, LanceCorporal R. D. Chalmers, Sapper E. H. Hooper; at Malta, Private J. A. McGlone (previously reported wounded), New Zea- - landers; missing, one officer and two men; - j prisoners of war at Constantinople, 20 i j men; returned to duty, Private S. L. Williams. |liams. New Zealander; embarked for Eng--1 land, Privates D. L. Matheson, 0. Maule, - New Zealanders. 1 ' PARSON IN THE FIRING LINE.

KILLED AT GALIIPOLI. SYDNEY. September 16. The Rev. R. K. Pittendrigh, a Methodist minister, has been killed in Gallipoli. Failing to obtain appointment as a chaplain, he enlisted as a private, and has fought right through the campaign. MINERS FOB EUROPE. MELBOURNE, September 16. The acceptance of the services of an Australian Miners' Corps by the Imperial Government is the outcome of General Birdwood's appreciation of the successful work performed by the Australian miners attached to the Expeditionary Forces. The corps will include geologists, mining engineers, and other specialists. CANNOT BE TRUSTED. SYDNEY. September 16. The naturalised German named Behrmann. who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment yesterday . for having 1(50 rounds of ball ammunition of military pattern in his possession, was convicted to-day on a further charge of having a revolver and 30 rounds of ammunition in his possession. He was fined £100 and also sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. **- HELP FROM SCIENTISTS. SYDNEY. September 16. The Royal Society lies offered its ser- ' vices to the Government in connection with the manufacture of munitions, and in regard to other scientific matters arising out of the war.

KAISER'S WORRIED HEIR. SAID TO BE OUT OF HIS MIND. • LONDON, September 16. I The Central News Agency publishes a ! dispatch from the north of France that I the German Crown Prince is suffering I from mental aberration, the result of worry over the campaign. Prisoners declare that he broke down after three sleej> | less - -'■ -