PROPOSED CENSUS IN AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 8, 9 July 1915, Page 7

PROPOSED CENSUS IN AUSTRALIA

SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ANY EMERGENCY. (Received July 9, 11.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. In the Federal Senate, Senator Pearce (Defence Minister), referring to the proposed census, said that it would provide for the registration of- all professions. The time had arrived when they should be prepared for any emergency — they should be organised financially, industrially, and militarily. RECRUITING CAMPAIGN IN N.S. W. (Received July 9, 11.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The newspapers are assisting in the recruiting campaign. They are publishing daily exhortations to enlist, signed by the party leaders. HOLTS SCARES NO INFERNAL MACHINE ON THE BAXONIA. NEW YORK, Bth July. The Saxonia has sent a wireless message that sho is unable to trace any infernal machine on board. LF. Holt, the Instructor of German at Cornell University, who shot Mr. J. P. Morgan and was responsible for the explosion at the United States Capito', confessed before he committed suicide that he had despatched dynamite aboard the steamships Saxonia. and Philadelphia with a view to wrecking them at sea. The Navy authorities sent a wireless message to the steamers, and the Philadelphia replied that a search failed to disclose the presence of dynamite.] FRENCH CONSUL'S PERIL HE ESCAPES A COURT-MARTIAL. (TIMES AND. SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.) (Received July 9, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Bth July. A Military Court at Libau sentenced to death the French Consul, M. Maidel, who is a director of the Riga Commercial Bank, because he possessed a record of German atrocities. M. Maidel was warned, and fled. CONDUCT OF THE WAR SUGGESTED CONFERENCE IN LONDON. (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SBRVICBB.) (Received July 9, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Bth. July. Suggestions are being made to Mr. Bonar Law (Secretary of State for tho Colonies) that in view of the proposed visit of Sir Robert Borden (Canadian Premier) opportunity should be given the Premiers of the self-governing dependencies to assemble in London at an early date for the purpose of conferring with l-egard to the conduct of the war. (HIESS ASSOCIATION.) STEAMER AFIRE IN MIDOCEAN A CARGO OF AMMUNITION. (Received July 9. 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Bth July. The Atlantic Transport Company's finer Minnehaha, 13,714 tons gross, is afire in mid-ocean. She is en route to London. It is believed the outbreak has been got under control. She is carrying a heavy cargo of ammunition. The steamer is returning to Halifax. (Received July 9. 9.10 a.m.) NEW _ YORK. Bth July. The firo on the Minnehaha is reported to be duo to an oxplosion. It is behoved hero that a German sympathiser hid bombs aboard the vessel. AN AIRMAN KILLED (Received July 9. 2 p.m.) LONDON, Bth July. S(]Uiulron-Comm<inder Soameb. of the Flying Coips. was experimenting with a high-explosive bomb at Netheravou. when fragment of Uif bomb Uillcd him ill, ninety yards disUnee.