Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 279, 23 November 1914, Page 5

Australia

THE CRY FOR WHEAT. [United Peesb Association.] (Received 9.15 a.m.) Sydney, November 23. Mr Peacock strongly appealed to farmers to put tlu? "greatest possible area under wheat. i Mr Holman (Premier) to-day confers with the Commonwealth and State authorities with a- view to collective action in the distribution of the available Commonwealth wheat crop and also as to the importation of any required. SENTRY WOUNDS TWO MEN AT MANLY. (Received 9.15 a.m.) Sydney,November 23. Two men driving a motor car at Monavale, near Manly, failed to obey a sentry, who fired, wounding both, but not seriously. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. London, November 21. The Japanese Consul, Mr Hori, formerly stationed at Yancduver, has been appointed by the Japanese Government to.visit the Caroline, Marshall, and othef islands captured from the Germans, to enquire into the natural resources and general conditions. GENERAL. Sydney, November 22. The Telegraph’s Raboul correspondent reports that Mr Cox, an English missionary, arrived in a serious condition, after brutal treatment at the hands of the Germans in New Ireland. Mr Cox states that he was making his periodical visit, and was spending the night with the German missionary. While chatting on the verandah, five armed and nasked Germans appeared, and accused Mr Cox of conveying information of the forces at Rabaul. He protested his innocence, hut was denuded of bis clothing, flogged with a cane, put into his boat in a semi-conscious condition,, and ordered to return to Rabaul for medical attention. A punitive expedition has left to investigate. ;