In Australia

ARMY & NAVY

A description of the week's activities of the U. S. fleet in Australian waters:

Governor General Forster of Australia gave a ball for Admiral Coontz and officers of the Melbourne detachment of the fleet.

An "at home" was held on the West Virginia,

Dances were given aboard the California and Oklahoma.

Two sailors married Australian girls.

Forty-five people were crushed and bruised when the ships invited visitors aboard.

The Australians had the best of a series of boxing matches and won a baseball game from the sailors.

The Oklahoma was presented with an adult kangaroo as mascot.

The President of the Prohibition Council of Australia protested against beer being served to sailors at public functions, saying: "The sailors come to us clean and wholesome."