AUSTRALIAN MACHINE-
GUNS NEW SOUTH WALES OFFER TO DEFENCE DEPARTMENT. SYDNEY, Ist September. The State Premier (Mr. W. A. Hoiman) states that ten machine-gun* are being constructed at the Walsh Island workshop as an experiment. If it is satisfactory the State will place the plant at the disposal of the Defence Department for the production of guns to its full capacity. PAPERWORKERS' UNION CONFERENCE WITH ENEMY FEDERATIONS DECLINED. LONDON, Ist September. • The National Union of Paperworkers declines an invitation from the German and Austrian federations to attend a conference in Switzerland for the purpose of revising the international organisations, stating that it had decided never again to sit in conference with the representatives of a nation which applauded the murder of 1400 unarmed men, women, and children on the Lusitania. % It is . proposed to call a conference in London or Paris to institute a new inter- j national secretariat, excluding the German and Austrian organisations. ESTIMATE OF AMERICAN COTTON CROP. (TIMES AND ITDVFT SUN SERTICES.) (Received September 2, 8.30 a.m.) . LONDON, Ist September. The American cotton crop is estimated at, 11,800,000 bales.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 55, 2 September 1915, Page 7
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182AUSTRALIAN MACHINE Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 55, 2 September 1915, Page 7
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