RUSH TO SERVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 209, 5 September 1939, Page 8

RUSH TO SERVE.

AUSTRALIANS EAGER.

Many Foreigners Rounded Up

For Internment.

SIMILAR MOVE IN CANADA,

United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Thousands of men of all ages jrat In-red at (ho Victoria Military Barracks, yesterday, desiring to enlist Lor military duty. Officials •were compelled to inform applicants that there is at present no call for general service, but. former exservicemen were invited to join the Army reserve through the Returned Soldiers' League. A similar eagerness to serve is reported in other states. The examination of all visiting vessels is now being carried out at all ports. Shot Across Bows. A shot was fired across the bows of a coastal vessel entering Port Phillip, Victoria, this morning. The captain, who was ignorant of the emergency regulations, immediately Love-to.

Police and military ollicers during the night and early in the morning carried out a round-up of Germans and Austrians for internment in country gaols. Most of those taken submitted quietly, others were sullen, and seemed to anticipate the rouiul-up, while a few were resentful. Some possessed revolvers and considerable sums of money.

The police had the fullest information regarding the activities and movements of those with pronounced Nazi tendencies, compiled from Departmental dossiers.

An earlier Melbourne cablegram stated than members of the German Consular Corps in Australia have been given their passports. They and their families will be given a safe conduct for the trip back to Germany.

A Montreal message states that members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, through Sunday night and yesterday, made scores of arrests of German citizens under the Enemy Alien Act.

CANADA WILLING.

Thousands Of Offers Of

Service.

MANY NURSES ENROLLED. (Received 9.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, September 4. The Defence Department has been deluged with thousands of offers to sei \e in any capacity. Two thousand and five hundred nurses have enrolled for overseas service.

Earlier cable messages stated that the Canadian Government, in proclaiming the War Measures Act, 1014, declared the '"existence of a state of apprehended war." The militia, naval services and Air Force have been placed on an active service basis.

The Cabinet met at n a.m. Although it is taken for granted that Canada will join Britain. Australia and New Zealand in declaring war. it is virtually certain the actual declaration will await the meeting of Parliament.