DUTCH TIN SOLD TO GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2397, 1 March 1915, Page 5

DUTCH TIN SOLD TO GERMANY

REPORT IN LONDON METAL' CIRCLES. (Rec. February 28, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 27. It is stated in London metal circles that tie Dutch Government has sold Germany 2000 tons of tin at £200 per ton. ' / FOOD FROM STRAW GERMAN PROFESSOR'S ■ DISCOVERY. (Rec. February 28, 5J> p.m.) Amsterdam, February 217. Professor Friendenthal, of Berlin, claims to have -discovered a new food, prepared from straw.' The German newspapers declare that the discovery is likely to revolutionise the people's-food. OFFICIALLY MURDERED REPORTED ASSASSINATION OF-A' • TURKISH GENERAL. (Rec. February 28, 5.5 p.m.) Copenhagen, February' 27. It is reported from Berlin that a Turkish general has been murdered in • Constantinople at the instance .of the Government, which suepected that he was scheming to proclaim himself Sultan and negotiate for peace. • ■ DANGER IN WAR PICTURES WHAT HAPPENED IN FRANCE. (Rec. February 27,' 6 p.m.) London, February 26. Ths Press Bureau stresses the undo nrableness ofi publishing photographs taken at localities actually within range ~ of the enemy. Recently a French paper •printed a picture showing a priest conducting mass among the soldiers in a certain village. The Germans concluded that the village must be occupiod hy ' the French and opened fire, killing fourteen. —"Times" and Sydney "Sun" services. TWO DAYS IN THE~NORTH SEA- : GERMAN AIRMEN PICKED UP. ' ) (Rec. March 1, 0.20 a.m.) London, February 27. ; , A trawler has landed two German '• aviators at Lowestoft. They left Os- * \ tend on Sunday and fell into the North ,i i Sea. They had clung to their macfifcte for two days, and were terribly exhausted, THREE BRITISH HEROES INCIDENT OF THE BRICKFIELD FIGHT. ' (Reo. February 28. 5.5 p.m.). London, February 27. ■ "Eye-witness." describing the Belting in the brickfield south-east ■' of Ypres on February 17, writes:— "Until all were killed or wounded, and only three of the latter wcro capable of firing, the British, in one of the ' advanced trenches, kept the enemy at bav until their ammunition .was nearly exhausted. They sent word to the rear: and seven strong men carried ammunition to the trench. ; "The ammunition relief found three of the survivors standing anions their dead and disabled comrades, still firine srteadily. They oame 'in the nick of time to help to beat off an assault on the position, which was saved." He mentions that on one portion of the brickfield a 'young German officer ohaTged at the head of thirty men waving his sword. On reaching the entanglements he was killed. He stilj../ lies there, his sword in his hand, ar.o his thirty comrades dead around him