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Show STEAMER ARRIVES FROM AUSTRALIA' PAN FRANCISCO, Sept 17. With a large passenger list of Germans and Austrians, among them Richard KUiani, 1 German consul general to Australia, and Dr. Ferdinand Freyesleben, Austrian consul con-sul general at Sydney, the steamship Ventura arrived today from Sydney, Aus- ; tralia, and Honolulu. Both consuls said they received their passports shortly, after tlie outbreak of the war. According to Consul Kiliani. some 800 Germans still remain in Australia. Of these, 250 are detained because they are German reservists. re-servists. Ij. C. Anderson, an exploitation com- ; missioner of the Panama-Pacific exposi- i tion, who was a passenger on the vessel, : told of his arrest in Sydney as a German spy as he was taking photographs in a district restricted by the military author!- i ties. He was escorted to the headquarters headquar-ters of the British military authorities and court-martialed, obtaining his acquittal acquit-tal onlv through tlie intervention of the American consul and prominent citizens. His camera was returned to him after the films had been developed and inspected. Anderson said that Australia and New Zealand have 28,000 expeditionary troops at the disposal of the British war department. de-partment. Public subscriptions for the support of these troops, Anderson said, total as high as 1000 a day. |