Empire Outposts

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 217, 15 August 1918, Page 6

Empire Outposts

AUSTRALIA. TEN PER CENT ON SWEEP WINNINGS. (Received 15, 11. a.m.) i Melbourne, August 15. | The Federal Treasury is drawing the income tax net round sweep winners. The Government has notified all recent winners of prizes of from five to five thousand pounds, > demanding their paying of ten per cent. The department intends to' traverse all tae Lsts ol iuck.> w inners back to July Ist. 1915- —(A. <fc N.Z.) PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. (Received 15, il.O a.m.) Sydney, Aug. 15. The Legislative Assembly received a petition praying for the introduction of proportional representation this session. —(A. and N.Z.) FRENCH YOUTHS CALLED TO THE COLOURS. (Received 15. 12.30 p.m.) Sydney, August 15. A notice has been issued calling all French citizens in Australia of the 1920 class to report.—(A. and N.Z.) COMPULSORY JNIONtSM. ARBITRATION COURT JUDGE’S COMMENT. (Received 15, 12.30 p.m.) Sydney, Aug. 15. The Industrial Arbitration Court gave an important decision dealing with alleged union coercion. A member of the union appealed against the decision of the Clnef Industrial Magistrate ordering b.m to pay _£s 9/6, the balance of union subscriptions said to be due. The grounds of appeal were that he was not a member of the union and whs compelled to join under threat of all the v other men that he would be called off his job unless he joined. Judge Curlewis in reversing the Magistrate’s decision said he would express no opinion on the rights and wrongs of military conscrip--von. He simply said that if it is slavery then industrial conscription was no better. —(A. and N.Z.)

GERMAN RADICAL ON AUSTRALIANS.

A THREAT AND HOW TO ANSWER IT.

Maximilian Harden* editor of “Zukunft,” a radical, and one of the 'leading German publicists, wrote an article on Australia when the Australians voted against compulsory military service. Addressing a recruiting meeting at Crow’s Nest, last night, Mr. G. W. Fuller' (Home Secretary) read a portion of that article, as fol lows:—

“We have the greatest contempt possible for any human to possess for the Australian, doing as little work as he can, spending his substance in sport, in gambling {which is his religion), and in drinking. We who can claim to be honest laugh at the Quixotic bravery of the Australian, whose enthusiasm carried him away to face our God-led army. .' We will break the hearts of the unionists for all time. . We are gratified at the success of our agents in Australia, and the power of German gold. Those Germans who. like Judas, have turned against the Fatherland in its hour of trial, will be suitably dealt with. Those who have stood firm and are now interned will be placed over their captors and in his administrative positions. . • ■ The Australians are the most ignorant people in the wide world. They cannot speak or write correctly the British language. Our propaganda in the land of the Southern Cross has beer most successful. - • • We scatter them over the face of the earth, whilst we will retain in Australia their women to be mothers of a new German race in the Great PaAny voung Australian with the old British’blood in his veins must answer that in the only Possible wayby enlisting," remark a Mr. ruiler.

NOTES FROM VARIOUS STATES

(Received 15, 11. a.m.) ■ The N S.W. St-te Government Ladecided to pay two years’ , rteTer [. fi! iucremcrts -n ci»il serv.uiu silano involving £38,000. —(A. & N.Z)

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT. (Received 15, 1.35 p.m.) Capetown, Aug. 14.. The Nationalist Central Committee’s resolution in favour of independence has been sent to all branches with instructions to move together with a no-confidence vote against all the Ministers in the course of their present tour. This vote has been carried everywhere at the meetings though the Ministers have been courteously received and given a fair hearing.—(A. and N.Z.)