The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07
Scene From My Arizona Girlv At Lyric Theatre.
AUSTRALIA SENDS
 9O,OOO SOLDIERS TO AID THE ALLIES

Melbourne Australia, Sept. 7.- Everything possible is now being done to get more recruits in Australi a. everything short of conscript1on It. self. There are, after a year of the war, eo,o0o Australians under arms either in the firing line at the Darda- nelles or in training camps, but fn- stead of there being any let up in the call for men, the demand for them grows more and more insls- tent.
 Although the Ministry of Defense denies that it looks to =conscripton, a census of unmarried men has just been taken by the police of the vari- ons states to determine the fighting strength. The result of this has, not been made public. The campaign to enlist volunteers. however, takes on new vigor each day. There are speeches by civil and military author ities; there are newspaper appeals; there are huge advertising posters, there are parades,y and there is even the display of wounded. soldiersEall to the same end. In this state (Vic- torfa1 a recruiting campaign covering the last three weeks of July. resulted in more than IS, 900 enHstments, a number which, it is pointed out, equals the strength of the entire Aus traIian force which was sent to Egypt last Novenn Der. The fact that New South Wales is in virtually all things a rivaT of yictoria=in some ways .jealously. figures to a certain ex- tent in a recruiting campaign which is now in progress there
 Business houses all oyer Australia are making it easier for young men in their. employ, to enlist by either keep ing up their pay or promising them their old places if they return; and to induce m nen-even with d dependents ito join the colors, the press is by. of the military authorities. printing almost daily the liberal rates of pay for Australians on active ser vice and the pensions which will be paid the disabled and the relatives of such officers and privates as may be kilIed. eeTs44 ess5t
 But the chief appeal isf to patriot ism, and never have the Antipodes seen such a widespread and ardent use as nowadays of the Union Jack of the Empire and the southern cross, of the young Australian Federation The government will have compara.- lively little trouble in clothing the greatly augmented number of volun- teers, but it will. have considera b1e difficulty in arming them. It is not Improbable that it will have to have the assistance of the Imperial Gov ernmentq in this respect. #
 MeaHWhlle WounoeQ men are pe- ginning to be brought back all the. way. from the Gallipon peninsula; in. fair numbers Bya November it is likely that with cooler weather in the Red Sea many more will be re- turned home. Ella borate preparations have been made for the care and treatment of these soldiers In or der ito raise funds for this, July 30 was chosen as Australia Day" and, every conceivable method of obtain ing and soliciting contributions was employed on that date from one end of the Commonwealth to the other. Melbourne and Sydney resennbled nothing so much as huge county fairs. The result of the patriotic charity was a sum which at this writ ing-with the returns not yet in from many sections-amounts to nearly $4,O0o. 900.