Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1916 — Cattle Dying In Australia From Excessive Heat. [ARTICLE]

Cattle Dying In Australia From Excessive Heat.

Mrs. Tom Cox is in receipt of a letter from her brother, Jim Hunt, who is in Kurrie-Kurrie, New South Wales. He writes that cattle have been dying by the thousands in Australia as a result of a long-continued spell of hot weather and drouth. The situation has been relieved a little lately as a result of slight rains. Great Britain depends to a considerable extent on Australia for its meat, the animals being frozen after they are butchered and shipped in, refrigerators to England. . Hunt, who went from England to Australia about eighteen months ago, states that there is great depression in that country. Men have been discharged from positions in an effort to get them to enlist in the army. He says that it is a terrible sight to witness the return home of the wounded soldiers. Hunt could not be accepted in the army owing to physical disability.