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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 22 February 1916, Page 5

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LONDON, Feb. 19. Germany is distributing per the Swiss post sampie copies of a new sheet called The Political Correspondence of Central Europe," and invicing subscriptions. itt is allegedly a neutral paper, published in Zurich. It is 'printed in parallel columns in English, I'rench, ltaliain and Spanish, especially promising subscribers of neutral countries moderate, impartial and truthful war news. The specimen copy betrays German authorship, being packed with impudenb and lying articles, special telegrams, and false news, whicn it invites newspapers to reproduce. The Naval Journal publishes details of a new German ironclad which is totally unsinkable. It is a Dreadnought cruiser fitted with triple skins of armour stuffed with non-resisting material, rendering it invelunerable to torpedoes and shells. LONDON, Feb. 20. The Trade Union Congress sent a deputation to wait on Mr Henderson protesting against the introduction of child labor in agriculture. Mr Henderson stated that the policy of the Government was to employ children, under strictly defined conditions, only when all efforts to obtain adult labor failed. Already eight thousand children were exempted from school for agricultural employment. The Board of Education strongly deprecated this, believing it unnecessary, and was using its utmost powers to prevent improper exemptions. In the House of Commons, Mr Herbert Samuel stated that seven prisons, and portions of two others, were temporarily closed, owing to the reduction in crime. They had been lent to the War Office to accommodate military prisoners. The closing of five others was under consideration.

M. Nandeau, writing to the Paris Journal from Petrograd, says that the fall of Erzerum leaves Asiatic Turkey exposed to Russia. Erzerum was the only real fortress in Southern Turkey, commanding all the roads to Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Persia.