Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-14
AUSTRALIA TO ARMS.

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telegraph dispatches a few days ago tina
treat Britain would raise another big arm,
Of colonials lends special interest to what an
associated Press correspondent in Melbourne
says OF the recruiting campaign in Australia
Tie writes that everything possible is now be-
ing done to get more recruits in Australia
everything short of CONSUMPTION itself There
ire, after d year of the war, 10000 Australians
Under arms either i'm the firing line at the Oar.
'lanelles or IN the training camps, but instead
of there being any let up in the call for men
ne demand for them grows more and more in
sistent. r., !,
Although the ministry of defense denies
that It looks to CONSUMPTION, census of un-
married men has just been taken by the police
Of the various states, to determine the fighting
strength. The result Of this has not been made
public. The campaign to enlist volunteers,
however,, takes on new yigor each day. There
ire speeches BIZ civil and military authorities,
there are newspaper appeals; there are huge
advertising posters, there are, parades, and
there is even the display of wounded soldiers
all to the same end. la Victoria recruiting
eampaign covering the last three weeks of
July resulted in more than $4,000 enlistments,
b number which, it is pointed ont, equals the
Strength Of the entire Australian force which
vas sent to Egypt last November The fact
that New South Wales is in virtually all things
i rival of Fictoria IN some ways jealousy. so
iignres to certain extent in a recruiting
campaign (which is now In progress there. q
Business houses all over Australia are max
ing il easier for Young men in their employ to
<nlist b. either keeping up their pay or prom
sing Them their Old places if they return and
10 induce men even with dependents to join
The eolors, the press is by request Of the mill
|aiy authorities printing almost daily the lib
0fal rates of pay for Australians on active ser
Wee and the pensions which, will be paid the
||i<abled and the relatives Of such officers and
IriTates as may be killed.
But the chief appeal IS to patriotism, and
never have the Antipodes seen such wide
.pread and ardent Rse as nowadays of the
nion Jack Of the Empire and the southern
ross Of tile Young Australian Federation. The
government will have comparatively little
|loilble in clothing the greatly augmented
number Of volunteers, but twill have eonsid-
Ifable difficnlty in arrning them. II is hot inn
probable that it will have to have the assist
Ince of the imperial government in this respect
Meanwhile wounded men are beginning to-
Be brought back all tleeway from the Gallipoli
peninsula in fair numbers BY November it is
fkeIs that with cooler weather in the Red Sea.
many more will be returned home. Elaborate
Preparations have been made for the care and
treatment of these soldiers In order to raise
funds for this, July 30 was chosen as Aus
Ifalia Day. and every conceivable method.
6f obtaining and soliciting contributions was
tnpleyed on that date from.one end Of the.
Commonwealth to the other. Melbourne and
sidney resenbled nothing so much Ms hinge
country fairs. The result of the atriotie char
ilr was sum which, with the returns not yet
"a from many sections, amounts to nearly
1900 900. sss.-....szE Il "a