EXPENSIVE WAR NEWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 188, 14 September 1914, Page 2

EXPENSIVE WAR NEWS.

ENGLISH PAPERS AND THE WAR LONDON, August 14.—'' The Times,'' explaining the reduced size of London newspapers —the biggest is now 12 pages and most of them are printing only six to eight pages—nays there is only a week's supply of print paper in England. It comes chiefly from Scandinavia and Canada. The price for all buyers without fixed contracts has been advanced 3£ cents per pound. This is ruinous to weak papers. Not a single newspaper in England is even paying expenses since the war broke out. The war expenses of the two leading British newspapers, "The Times" and the "Daily Telegraph" are now 50,000 dollars a week eaeh. They have 85 war •orreependents actually in the field.