AUSTRALIANS' MEETING IN LONDON.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 28 May 1915, Page 7

AUSTRALIANS' MEETING IN LONDON.

MEASURES FOR COMFORT OF WOUNDED.

(Received May 28, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 27 The Racing Calendar announces a •arace at Newmarket for Derby horses in Ascot week.

A large meeting of Australians was 'held at the Trocadero to devise means to help the Australian wounded cominoto England. to Sir G. Reid moved a resolution expressing the meeting's ardent admiration of the exploits of the troops at the Dardanelles, and extending sorrowful sympathy to the relatives of those "Who had fallen in battle and sympathy to the wounded.

Sir G. Reid eulogised General Bridges' valuable services to the Commonwealth

Sir E. Barton, in supporting the motion, said that those who originated 'the war must be brought to book, and this we could only do by complete conquest of the robber nation of Schweinland. The Germans could not have peace by treaty, for a nation which scorned treaties could not be trusted to keep one in future. Australians

. 6hau I.d, v jaot;,toliQrate 1/ -any -^teace vttia-fc'fc , would > t ßoiy.nr«vent • of a^ pitiful Var like the'present in the-life-' time of iheir sons and sons' sons. The motion was carried. Several generous subscriptions were received xto assist the war contingents and work araongsi the wounded. . Sir G. Reid announced that a base hospital was being established- at Weymouth to which men would be sent after restoration to health.