Bastia is a seaport of Corsica.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13594, 8 October 1914, Page 5

Bastia is a seaport of Corsica.

ENGLISH NEWS.

THE NEW ARMY

NEARLY 600,000 STRONG

ACTIVITY AT GERMAN DOCK-

YARDS

London, Oct. 6. Nearly" 600,000 men have joined the new army, of whom London has contributed 85,000. . ■■■'....• Copenhagen reports that feverish energy is being displayed in the German 1 docks. '■ '

j Fifty submarines are being built, and more are projected.

Mr. Walter Marks, of Sydney, offered the Admiralty to secure a hundred expert Australian and New Zealand yachtsmen for the Royal Naval Re-

serve. Tho Admiralty, in ah apprecia-- ; tive letter, states that an opportunity has not arisen at present,to utilise the yachtsmen's services. •

The Board of Trade returns reveala steady revival of employment.

The Malwa's mails have been dcliv-

ered

CABLE NEWS.

[Press Association —Copyeioht.]

The Government has prohibited the exportation of wool to European countries other than Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal and Russia, excepting Baltic ports.