AUSTRALIA.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13825, 21 July 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIA.

ENGLISH SOCIALIST AT SYDNEY,

CONSCRIPTION INEVITABLE

MECHANICS WANTED FOR

ENGLAND

Sydney, July 20.

Mr. Victor Grayson, the English Socialist, who is visiting Sydney, considers that conscription in England is inevitable. He says our danger has arisen from political mismanagement. He hopes that the war will abolish party politics, which is the greatest curse to any. race or Empire.

He pays a tribute to Mr. Winston Churchill, saying that his forced retirement was one of the great mistakes of the war. He deplored any spirit of overconfidence. They would require to hold on with both hands, and use all thenenergy to crush the foe. He hoped, with victory secure, to see the end of the system by which party lawyers ran the British Empire.

Mr. Dengate, organiser of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, states that Vickers, Son and Maxim urgently need 1000 trained mechanics, and are willing to pay the fares both ways.

Alfred George Berwin, managing director of Berwin and Company, has Leen fined £200 on a charge of attempting to trade with the enemy.

The executive of the Cricket Association has adopted a recommendation that next season's interstate matches be suspended on account cf the war.