AUSTRALIAN BRASS-HATS LEAVING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13914, 15 November 1919, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN BRASS-HATS LEAVING.

(Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) | Received November 1-1. 0.15 p.m. LONDON, November 12. General Sir William Birdwood. Gen-? eral Sir John Monash. General Me-. Glynn, and General Wisdom, together with '250 other Australian officers and men. with many dependents, are sailing for Australia aboard the Ormonde on Saturday. The Australian Press Association interviewed General Monash. who said : "I am jolly glad to find myself on the eve of departure. I have been away from home five years, but the last nine months have been much more strenuous than the four years of war. Demobilisation proved a stupendous task. It would be difficult enough in peace time with the help of a trained utafl' to transport a city of 200,000 people to the Antipodes in nine months. They bad succeeded in completing the bulk of the embarkation in eight months. General Monash says: In enlising the sympathy of ,the men, I followed the principle of conduct which animated me throughout the war, based on • experience. If you give the Australian a fair deal ho will do anything in the world for you. Mutual confidence between men and officers was the bedrock of success of the Australia us in the war. One was almost tempted to thfnkthat as against the terrible losses Australia there were rcry substantial benefits in moral uplift, and vast educational experiences gained by the young men of Australia.

NEW YORK GAMBLING. (A. nntLN.Z. Cable Assn.) Received November 15, at 0.45 a.m. NEW YORK, November 12. The Stock Exchange was the scene of a remarkable fall in prices. Call money reached 30 per cent, after opening at 14, and closed at 25. The- day's ■turnover was more- than 2,500,000 shares, and some stocks fell more than 65 point, s The reason is said to be the Federal Reserve Board's restriction of the supply of money available for speculation purposes. NAVAL FIGURES. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.i LONDON, November 12. ". In the House of Commons Mr Long stated that the Hood cost £5,035,000 exclusive of guns. The British naval losses since the armistice were one light cruiser, two destroyers, two ' minei sweepers, one submarine, thre coastal motor-boats in th Baltic, and two minesweepers, one submarine, three'coastal angel. BRITAIN'S CENTURY. (Ans. .and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received November 14, at 5.5 p.m. • LONDON, November 12. Colonel L. C. M. Amery, interviewed by the Morning Post, said that as the nineteenth century was the century of the United States, so the twentieth would be the century of the British Empire. It would end with the British Empire 'having 200,000,000" white citizens, enjoying a far higher level of prosperity than the United States today. The first essential was tho dei velopmcnt of Imperial transport by Empire-wide railways. These were essential as a complement to the policy of Imperial preference. It was the business of the whole Empire to assistin developing the Crown Colonies and Protectorates. Equal participation in the Government of the less advanced territories was of more practical importance than recognition of the Dominions' equality of status in International affairs. As half the population of Asia was within the British Empire there, was no possible menace against the interest of- Australia- and Canada, sineo half of the 800,000,000 Asiatics were partners in the Empire with'the Dominions. The tropical Empire belongs to the Dominions as well as Britain. Australia should look to "tropical .Africa, as well as tho Pacific Islands. We must learn to decentralise the conception of Empire. The idea of an Empire as a solar system with England as the sun and tho colonies as the satellites is out of date. Alongside the development of transport should go tho overseas settlement. Emigration is an evil word. A man cannot emigrate to Australia. the word should be reserved tor foreign countries. The League ot Nations mandate will not mterlere, with tjie British Imperial policy. The mandates are not likely to impose any conditions, which we should not impose on ourselves.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (A and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received November 14. 7.40 p.m. SYDNEY, November 14. .The rain is steadily spreading, hut there has been little in the Tlroughtstricken areas. Received November 1-1, 10.15 p.m. SYDNEY, November 14. * terrific hailstorm devastated the orchards and crops at South Batlmrst. and did much damage on other property. , ~ ~ Paddon has challenged Felton to voir for £SOO a side, and has paid a deposit. It is now certain that Felton and Paddon will meet on the Parramatta within six months, and Barry will have to challenge tho winner. BRISBANE, November 14. Following npon-a protest by returned soldiers, Dr Hirschfield, late German Consul in Queensland, who was previously interned, hut released on parole, has been re-arrested, with a view to ■further internment. Received November 14, 10.5 p.m. MELBOURNE. November 14. The report of the Educational Committee of the Anzac Memorial Fund states that'there'are 10.709 orphans in Australia, whoso fathers were killed in the war. and recommends awarding them educational bureanen.