CARE OF AUSTRALIAN WOUNDED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 125, 28 May 1915, Page 8

CARE OF AUSTRALIAN WOUNDED

MEETING IN LONDON. ADMIRATION AND SYMPATHY. (Received May 28, 1 p.m.) n. LONDON, 27th May." At a large meeting of Australians at the Trocadero to devise means to help the Australian wounded coming to England, Sir George Reid (High Commissioner for Australia) moved, expressing the meeting's ardent admiration for the exploits of the troops at the DardanelW, extending sorrowful sympathy to the relatives of those who had fallen in battle, and sympathy to the wounded. Sir George Reid eulogised the late General Bridges's valuable services to the Commonwealth. Sir Edmund Barton, in supporting the motion, said that those originating the war must be brought to book, and they could only do so by the complete conquest of the robber nation, "Schweinland." The Germans could not have peace by treaty, for a nation which scorned treaties could not be trusted to keep one in the future. Australians should not tolerate any peace that would not prevent a repetition of a pitiful war like the present in the lifetime of their sons and their sons' sons. The motion was carried. Several generous subscriptions were received to assist the war contingents' work among the wounded. Sir George Reid announced that a base was being established at Weymouth, to which men would be sent after their restoration to health.