COMMONWEALTH NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 22 May 1915, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH NEWS

CARGO ON INTERNED VESSELS

FEELING OF THE DOMINIONS

APPRECIATION OF BRITISH PREMIER'S DISCERNMENT,

MELBOURNE, May 21. In connection with the steamer Adelaide, interned at London, the Ger-man-Australian Steamship Company demands that consignees shall undertake the delivery of the cargo in Australia, and fixes the contribution at 4 per cent, or a lump sum of £5000. The company declines responsibility for damages or short-landed cargo, and requires all accounts to be paid prior to delivery. A committee dealing with the matter decided that in view of the terms nothing should be done at present.

Mr Fisher says that Mr Asquith discerned correctly the feeling of the people of the Dominions when he said they preferred death to the loss of liberty under the British flag. "It was a fine idea of Mr Asquith's to refer to us as comrades in arms, saying so truthfully, concisely and explicitly "who touches them touches tis." We do not choose places at which to serve the Empire, but were ever ready to follow the call of the nation in the path of duty.