FOR PRACTICE PURPOSES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2219, 4 August 1914, Page 5

FOR PRACTICE PURPOSES

(Rfcc. August 3, 8.40 p.m.) Sydney, August 3. The military have officially announced that it is thought advisable at this juncture to put into action' for practice certain precautionary defence measures.

ENTHUSIASM IN LONDON (Rec. August 4, 1.6 a.m.) . London, August 3. The first outward sign of patriotio enthusiasm in London wetft tho crowds obeering tho Cabinet Ministers who tvere attending the '*, Cabinet Meeting. Shouts of "Good Old England I" and "Bravo, Winston I" were heard. k, great demonstration took place in front of Buokinghain Palace, where tlie crowd sang- "Rule, Britannia," the "Marseillaise," and the National Anthem. The King and Queen were on the balcony, and acknowledged the ' queers of the crowd - . ..' ' , • " OPINIONS IN CANADA. (Rec. August 4, 0.10 a.m.) . Ottawa, August 3. In official circles, the issue of the proclamation calling out the naval reserves was taken to mean that was was inevitable. Colonel Kughes, Minister, of Militia,-was rumoured to have actually selected the Canadian mobilisating ground, near Quebec. When informed of the rumour, Colonel Hughes promptly denied it.' . .. ■ ' ' WOMEN VOLUNTEERING AS NURSES.

(Rec. August 4, 0.5 a.m.) . Melbourne, August 3. An Overseas Club is forming, wii(b 8300 members of the Rifle Association, to be available-for military service- if necessary. Many women are volunteering as nurses. - '.

WAR GAZETTEER

PLACES MENTIONED IN THE NEWS.. -..-' Clroy.-—StAall frontier, town on. a branch line of railway leaving main lino between Nancy and Strasburg at the French frontier Customs station of Avricourt. Has a largo mirror factory. I,i two miles from the frontier and 36 from Nancy as the crow flies. Johannlsburg.—Frontier town in East Prussia, 92mi S.E. of Konigsberg, and nine miles from Russian boundary.

Longwy,—French town of 9911 inhabitants, three miles from frontier of Luxemburg. Taken by Germans in 1871. Has important iron works and porcelain faotories. Myslbwitz.—Frontier town almost at junction of German, Russian, and Aus'triau boundaries.' ,

Nanoy.—One of the principal cities of Eastern France, population 110,670. Seat of a bishop and headquarters of XX Army Corps. Was entered unopposed by' the Prussians in 1870, who put i the town to ransom; Is on main lino into Strassburg. of 20,200 inhabitants in Prussian Silesia, 29 miles from Russian border.

Prostken.—Frontier town in East Prussia, 123 miles S. from Konigsberg, and a railway terminus.,

s6hwiddsni'(?Schirwindt).—Schirwindt .is a small frontier station in East Prussia Mfc the terminus of a branch lino 95 miles east of Konigsberg.

ENROLLING RIFLE CLUBS

(P.cc. August, 3, 9.25 p.m.) Sydney, August 3.. The Legion of Frontiersmen is enrolling members of rifls clubs to be immediately available on the mobilisation, of : the reserves, and is inviting extiwsihw* of .trtro military. Imporinl and oversea Dominion forces, to loin.