GENERAL ITEMS THE MISSING ENVOYS
PRINCE AUGUST'S DEMAND. (Received September 26, 10.20 a.m.) PARIS, 25th September. An interpreter from Reims states that Prince August Wilhelm demanded £4,000,000 if the two missing envoy* sent with a flag "of truce to discuss terms of occupation were .not found. The envoys have not been traced. ASIATIC CHOLERA AMONG THE WOUNDED FROM GALICIA. VIENNA. 24th September. Nine cases of Asiatic cholera have been discovered among the wounded from Galicia. GALICIAN OILFIELDS CAPTURE BY RUSSIA EMBARRASSES GERMANS. (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICE 3.) LONDON, 24th September. The Russians' capture of the Galician oilfields i 6 embarrassing the 'Germane, as motor traction is essential to the mobility of the German forces, owing to the enormous wastage of horses. [Promptly on the outbreak of the war the price of petrol in London jumped enormously. It was procurable #.t prices as low a« 3d and 10d per gallon; but a few daye after the war broke out, private consumers had to pay as much a« ss, or even 7s 6d, per gallon/]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 76, 26 September 1914, Page 7
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174GENERAL ITEMS THE MISSING ENVOYS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 76, 26 September 1914, Page 7
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