UNJUSTIFIED "MAFFICKING"

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13847, 6 November 1918, Page 1

UNJUSTIFIED "MAFFICKING"

I ' OUTBURST IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, October 16 The news which aanved duiioig the last week-end ttliat (ierniauy hatt ac- " cepted President \\iLsoais, fourteen, points as a basis, foa* .peace, caused an extraordinary and unexpected outburst of public feeling, showing at one© how eager the people are to ao- .-. claim a complete viotoay, wliiclh* how ,seems cetrbain-, a«d->vhat a vague idea they have of the vital issues involved. Ueieibrations proceeded at many ■ places during Sunday, Sunday night, and Monday: it took 'some comniunitieisi over twenty -four hours to reaiisl© that the acceptaaice of P!iiesi-de-nt Wilson's formula was merely ' an important stage in th© peace nego- • taatiuris,' and was by no meaAs the . end of the war. The people are not to be blamied altogether- —they have been foodisihly inisaed by many newspaipers. Henii . in Sydney, during Sunday, t»h© evening paipeas. were publishing special editions, vlhioh wea-e most eagerly, purchased. Oh© of these journals was reasonably calni' and sane; the other lost all sense of balanoey aaid shrieked in. gimt black lettens that a decision of ■ the: uitmost ■ imommt had been, reached, and and^that "peace was- within sight. "' Sydney Was excited, but managed to get the neAvs in the right perspective, and did not lose its head. Melboua-ne's feelings got Loose to some extent, and tihere was, a. good deal of lively "mafficking" during Sunday afternoon. But it remained for the country to "go the limit." Country centres do not get their neiws with the precision and clearness?, of the city, and the country almost wholly decided tihiat the war wias over," and that now was a glorious opportunity for celebration. Bands paraded, processions were formed, the eloquence of local Bumibles was released in floods, equalled only by the good liquor which flowed. By Monday miorain'g mosit of the country towns were sober again, but some refused to • believe that the war was not over, and kept it up on Monday. Newcastle shipping arrangemeints, for instance, were upset, because the miners were "mafficking" on Monday, and wouldv not hew coal. ft Th.& Maitland miming districts went mad. Everyone in Goulbiurn refused to work, and business was at a standstill. It is reported that Goulburn is working 1 to- . day, but'with a AVet cloth around its' head. Wagga.,. and--Bathiuirsfc .-spent a lively Monday, mostly given over to argument, and the people of Ipswich, in Queensland, insisted, on having -a, day of joy, no one being, permitted to work.