LATER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9896, 11 September 1914, Page 5

LATER.

THE SINKING OF THE PATHFINDER.

WAS A GERMAN SUBMARINE RESPONSIBLE?

(Bi Electbic Telegraph-Cofybight.) (Pn Pbem Association.) Received September 11, 3.10 p.in LONDON, Sept, 10 (evening). The British Press Bureau pass es the statement that a German submarine sank the Pathfinder.

BRITISH RECRUITING FIGURES.

WHAT THE CITIES ARE DOING

Received September 11, 1.25 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 10. Some of the largo cities have ro*>pond< I to the recruiting appeal a* follows: —Lot: don. 60,000; Glasgow. 22,000; Livorpot' 20,000; Nottingham, 10,000; Crowe, 200 r liradford, 500; Chester 5000; Stockpoi! 1500; Leicester, 4000; Oldham, 2001 Middlesborough, 5000; Bury, 4000. The* are under rather than over the actun' figures.

AUSTRIA'S WOUNDED.

OVERTAX ALL ACCOMMODATIOi

Received September 11, 1.25 p.m. ROME. Sept. 10

A Vienna despatch states that all avail able hospitals, hotels, public buildings ai; .schools are unable, to accommodate tl Austrian wounded from Poland and Galic'r l

SPY BETRAYS HIMSELF IN HIS SLEEP.

QUICK RETRIBUTION FOR

GERMANS

Received September 11, 1.25 p.m LONDON, Sept. 10. An Ostend correspondent relates that ;. spy was betrayed by muttering German while in his sleep at a cafe. He states thu the British shot seventy five Germans i. Lagay because they continued firing after raising their rifle butts in token of but render.

AMERICA'S FINANCES. Received September 11, 1.85 pni NEW YORK, Sept. 10. Mr Pierpont Morgan confers with t!, Federal Reserve Board concerning th formation of a gold fund of 15,000,00' dollars to relieve the international e. change situation and regulate the go' ! outflow.

THE WOOL SALES PROBLEM. Received September 11. 1.25 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 10. Bradford voolbuyers strongly resent. tli<* fixing of sales for October ' 6th. They recommend the Importers' Committee not to hold sales before the 29th.

A GERMAN TRICK THAT FAILED.

Received, September 11, 1,25 p.m. LONDON. Sept, 10. The trawler Agatlia, in the North Soa, discovered a derelict ship's lifeboat, and when she commenced to tow it a terrifio explosion occurred, but she wag undamaged. The mine was evidently attached to th« lifeboat to destroy the finder.

ARMED LINER WRECKED.

OCEANIC TOTALLY LOST.

LONDON, Sept. 10 (morning). The White Star liner Oceanic, a merchant cruiser, is a total wreck on the coast of Scotland. All aboard were saved.

The White Star liner Oceanic was the longest vessel in the world when she made her appearance in 1899. She was a steel twin-screw three-masted steamer of 17,274 tons, built by Messrs Harland and Wolff, of Belfast. Her dimensions were: Length, 685 ft.; breadth, 68.3 ft.; depth, 44.5 ft. She had accommodation for 35( saloon, 250 intermediate, and 1000 steerag; passengers. The Oceania was an armeo merchant cruiser carrying eight quick-fir-ing guns. Prior to the war the vessei was regularly employed under contract with the British Government in carrying American mails from Southampton and Cherbourg to New York. The Oceani'' carried a crew of 450 all told, and had a speed of about 21J knots. During her run across the Atlantic she established re cords, till larger and faster ships mad"

WHEN PEACE IS MADE.

NATIONAL AMBITIONS MUST BE REALISED.

A RUSSIAN VIEW

PETROGRAD. Sept. 10. A letter to the press, commenting on tl" declaration by the Triple Entente not t make peace except jointly, says: "WK*» the settlement comes it must leave no roo-'n

FLOUR RISES ANOTHER £1 A TON.

pMILLERB GIVE THEIR REASONS

(Put Pbebs Absooiatiom.) DUNEDIN, Sept. 11. Flower has advanced £1 a ton, and i* now £l3 10s. The millers say this is mom sory, as the majority were short of wheat when the war broke out, and cannot replenish stocks at anything like a reascrable price. One local mill cloaed down. and others ate doing little work, finding it impossible to turn out flour at ft pmfifc