Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 58, 24 October 1914, Page 6

Australia

(Received 11.50 a.m.) Melbourne, October 24. In the Senate the Trading with the Enemy Bill passed all stages. Speaking at a function at Ballarat, the Chinese Consul deprecated the press rumor that China was sympathetic towards the Germans. The Government favored neither party, but the people openly expressed friendliness towards the Allies and the British.

(Received 10.30 a.m. ) Sydney, October 24

Prompted by the action of the Imperial authorities, the Defence Department searched various establishments suspected of containing enemy material. Nothing was discovered except a quantity of correspondence which is being closely scrutinised. (Received 11.30 a.m.)

• Sydney, October 24. Australia's war funds now total £750,000. At the conclusion of the Congregational Union Conference the following resolution was passed: "This Assembly views the colossal growth of militarism as the main source of anti-Christian ethics, as it seeks to displace the principle of righteousness by the doctrine of the supremacy, of might• expresses profound satisfaction at the determination of the Empire to resist to the utmost the temper of arrogance and usurpation; and prays for the.success of the Allies in the present conflict."-