COMMONWEALTH NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 8

COMMONWEALTH NEWS

THE KING'S EXAMPLE.

QUEENSLAND LIBERALS REPUDIATE GERMAN SUPPORT.

SUGAR SHORTAGE

THE LOST SUBMARINE AE2,

(Received May 20, 12.30 p.m.)

SYDNEY, May 20. Forty-six municipal councils in New South Wales have approved the "follow the King" movement. Thirty others negatived the idea.

BRISBANE, May 20. A local German newspaper, tiie Zeitung, published an_articie urging German electors to vote for the Liberals, including Mr Denham (the Premier). This roused strong comment in a section of the press, and public denial was made by Mr Denham that tvs party had authorised the publication of the article,

Deputations representing the State Government and the Sugar-growers' and Producers' Association asked Mr Tudor (Federal Minister of Customs) to remove the duty on sugar. «He promised to deal with the applications when the Government's investigation of the whole question, including the quantity required to be imported, "had been completed. *

Mr Pearce has asked people who hear expressions of disloyalty or anything suspicious to report them to the military or police, who will investigate.

Employees at the Newport Workshops asked the Railway Commissioners to dismiss enemy subjects under the age of 45 from the service.

The Admiralty has supplied a list of the crew aboard the submarine AE2. At the time of her reported sinking by the Turks they numbered told 32, under the charge of Lieulenant-Com-mander Stokes.