Australia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 9, 28 August 1914, Page 5

Australia.

Sydney, August, 27<

Tits Defence has accepted the Boy Scouts’, offer to form a'corps of cyclist messengers. Perth, August 27. .

Members of the Cabinet have decided to devote 10 per cent, of their salaries to the unemployment fund. i Melbourne, August 26. -Sir AlejmMLPPeacock, referring; to the German troops’ atrocities, leading to their being described as “the Red Indians of Europe/’ said. “We are now filled with the grim determination to make a repetition of these outrages impossible. ’ ’

WAR FUNDS' INCREASING.

A MELBOURNE BUSINESSMAN STRANDED EN THE NORTH PACIFIC.

(Received 9 Ao a.in.) Sydney, August 28. Arrived: The Maheno. The Lord Mayor’s fund has reached £50,000. The Chamber of Commerce war food fund amounts to £IB.OOO, In a letter Mr Mark Foy states that he loft Sydney in the German steamer Coblenz on July 25 for Hong Kong, and when lie reached German New Guinea, they heard war had been declared. The Coblenz landed her passengers and left hurriedly for a neutral port. The passengers were stranded, but they chartered a cutter in order to reach a port and get a steamer for China. The cutter was wrecked and the passengers picked up and taken to Yap, in the Caroline Islands, where they now are.

(Yap is an island of the Caroline Group in the North Pacific Ocean, and is ten miles long; purchased by Germany in 1899).

ISLAND SHIPPING SERVICES RESUMED.

FURTHER AUSTRALIAN CONTIN-

GENTS IF REQUIRED.

(Received 10.2 a.m., Sydney, Augu* 28

Burns, Philip and Co. notify the resumption of tho Island shipping services. Melbourne. August 2S. Commenting ou Lord Kitchener’s speech, Mr Milieu states that he has already submitted to Cabinet proposals for tlie organisation of further contingents if required. Hobart, August 28. Arrived; The Apa rim* from Singapore.

CATTLE KING’S FINE OFFER.

(Kecaired 9.45 a.»».) Melbourne, August St. Mr Sydney Kidman has et'ered Mr Milieu 200 horses or £4009,