LATE NEWS DOLEFUL HAMBURGERS NEWSPAPER AT AUCTION PROHIBITED EXPORTS OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2704, 25 February 1916, Page 5

LATE NEWS

DOLEFUL HAMBURGERS

NEWSPAPER AT AUCTION

PROHIBITED EXPORTS

OBITUARY

THE VERDUN BATTLE

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. February 25, 1.40 a.m.)

. Loridah, February 24. evening. TJie French communique shows that tho Verdun battle is tlio most important fighting in tho West since the Battle of Loos, or tho Champagne battle, and is likely to equal the German offensive on Yprcs last April. Paris, February 24.

The latest unofficial now 6 shows that there has been a tendency recently to largely increase the fifth army. General von Staugjs Motx army cqrps has been added to thn Grown Princo's original force, which has also been specially reinforced by live divisions, and ail imnienss quantity of artillery for the present attack. The Crown Prince's immediate objective, is not the forces but the earthworks which General San-ail constructed upon the heights of the Mouse prior to the Battle of the Maine, and sweeping from Vauquois across the Meuse ht Brabant, falling to the'' plain/',of. the Woovre, and ' thence to Etain and Fresnes, and back to St. Mihel.

DEPRESSED BY TRADE OUTLOOK. By ' . <; - r '. r ("Times" and Sydney "Sim" Services.)' London, February 23. A pessimistic debate took place in tha Hamburg House of Burgesses regarding trade after the war. It was declared that the Imperial Government's bureaucratic handling of the national finances was killing initiative and threatening the whole of the German oversea trade.

ONLY £10,000 BID FOR THE' "STANDARD." By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Reo. February 24, 8.55 p.m.) London, February 23. The copyright and .plant of the ;' , St9ijdard"..iie^sp. , iper have been offered at auction and withdrawn, the highest bid being £10,000.

ACTION BY THE BRITISH GOVERN- I MENT. ; Association—Copyright (Rec. February '24, 8.55 p.m.) >. London, February 23. The Gorernment lias prohibited ths j export of pig, irou and sugar to all des- ' 1 tinations; and of nuts, and fresli,.dried, and preserved; fruits to. European coun- ! tries, except' Franee, Russia,. Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

SIR GEORGE MARTIN, ORGANIST, j By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright ; London, February 23. Sir George Clement' Martin;- M.V.0., ; Mus. Dgc., F.R.C.0., organist at' St. i Pawl's Cathedral rsince 1888, is dead. . i CAPTAIN BRACECiIRDLE, VETERAN ; SHIPMASTER.. V, : Sydney, February 24. Captain Frederick Bracegirdle, a j veteran shipmaster, formerly of the : j Ivailcoura, trading to Wellington, is