The total losses to Scandinavian shipping through mine disasters were aa follows up to mid-December: — Sweden, 8 ships and 60 lives; Denmark, 6 vessels and 6 lives ; Norway, 5 vessels and 6 lives. To this total must also bo added Holland with 3 vessels and 15 lives. The. total financial loss- -for the 22 ships and their cargoes will reach nearly £2,000.000.
.\ corix'.suoiuFent witli the troops writes: "Caito is already .running 1 <>ul of chocolate — that is,, sticks of hard chocolate such as men. buy for a swatch mca.l. Australians am tremendous fellows for Jollies. No army or navy m tlicj world hankers after sweetmeats to anything like the extent the Australian soldiers and sailors do. On the troopships outr canteen bad iivi- limes Ihe demand for sweets and soft drinks that was expected, and one-fifth- the -demand: for beer. The biggest confectioners m Cairo told mo yesterday that they had no more -stick * chocolate, and did aiot expect lo bo able to get any till after the war. France is sending no more. Tho main supply comes from Switzerland, and that is now difficult. That is only one curious way m which the inrush of Australians is disturbing iho equilibrium of this ci(y of the ages."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13601, 5 February 1915, Page 9
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