GIFT OF A BATTLESHIP

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 88, 12 October 1915, Page 7

GIFT OF A BATTLESHIP

SUGGESTED BY INDIAN PRINCE. BOMBAY, 11th October. The Raja of Rutlam, who is fighting in France, is appealing to Indian noblemen and men of commerce to present Britain with a Dreadnought. RECRUITING IN SYDNEY THE DANGER FROM THE ' BALKANS. ' SYDNEY, 11th October. A new recruiting campaign has begun. There was a band parade in the streets, and a big meeting in the Town Hall, addressed by the Governor-Gen-eral and the Federal and State leaders. Speakers stressed the gravity of the Balkan developments. Mr. Hughes, Federal Attorney-General, declared that if the Germans reached Constantinople first it meant a serious menace to Australia. If the' Australians got there first it waa the beginning of the end of the war. Mr. Cook declared that, allowing for casualties in medical and other services, there were not more than 40,000 Australian fighters in the Dardanelles. The meeting resulted in obtaining a good number of recruits. STATE CAMPAIGNS IN ROTATION. (Received October 12, 11 a.m.) ; MELBOURNE, This Day. | Senator Pearce announces that a recruiting campaign will be undertaken in all the States in rotation. The next will I probably be held in Queensland. He deprecated the fixing of a definite quota, as to the proportion required from any State, the numbers requested by the Imperial authorities were an irreducible minimum, and as many more as can be obtained will be gladly accepted. (Received October 12, 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Six hundred and sixty-six men enlisted la*t week. AN EFFECTIVE REPLY WOUNDED SOLDIER'S DEFENCE OF MR. HOLMAN. (Received October 12, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. At a meeting in the Town Hall someone in the body of the hall asked why men drawing high salaries remained at home while the working men ! were asked to go to Gallipoli. Amidst an expectant silence a returned wounded soldier straggled forward, and replied, "I will tell you why they don't go ; because their war is here. If we j had not men like Mr. Holman we should not have the organisation to Bend the men who ought to go. We want men of Mr. Holman' s stamp here. We are willing to go back and fight for them." WAR-ON-WAR PARTY EXPELLED BY SOUTH AFRICAN ' LABOUR COUNCIL. JOHANNESBURG, 11th October.The council of the Labour Party has expelled the war-on-war section from membership. The expulsions include Mr.' Andrews, president of the International Socialist League, also prominent members of the Transvaal Council. THE KIDMAN CASE MORE EVIDENCE ABOUT TENDERS. SYDNEY, 11th October. At the hearing of the Kidman case, Walter D. Home, a stationer's employee, gave evidence that Kidman told him that lie had submitted tenders, but was afraid the prices were too high, and asked witness to allow him to submit others in his name. He agreed. In reply to a question, he said there wa3 nothing to lead Majors Page and O'Donnell to believe that he was not a genuine tenderer. Asked if Kidman primed him to mislead them, witness replied that, to a certain extent, he did. As he drove to the barracks, Kidman told him certain details of the tenders. He indicated that the telephone conversation, as cabled on the Bth, was between him and Kidman.