IN BELGIUM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 October 1914, Page 8

IN BELGIUM.

OCCUPATION OF OSTEN©

OF NO IMPORTANCE

WORTH A SECOND THOUGHT

ICSTS OF GERMAN BULLETS

.USE ENORMOUS WO ITSTQS

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«ceived Oct. 19, 12.80 p.m.)

H|<: _ LONDON, Oct. 38. Times, in a leader, says the Geroccupation of Ostend is a matter of The harbor is useless to enemy, who will net dare to b)ing into it. Used as a- base for subit would be instantly pud. oflecheckled. A Zeppelin shed at would be agreeably .vulu.er.able. has no relation wLctover military and nayal position from of the progress of the Mar the matter is -not worth a second Souttar, chief surgeon of tbe Brithospital in Belgium, states that ordinary German bullet may ri ake a even worse than a dum-lum. It constructed that as it strikes it head over heels and the bnse, is of soft metal, mushrooms and. an enormous wound. A remark. thing about modern surgery is that is hardly ever necessary, Hnd it is possible, with steel plates and jto repair almost anything. Dr. gives striking instances. ■F:' AMSTERDAM, Oct. 18. ' Scheldt is mined between AntHffP and the south-eastern extremity of H|e south level. from Berlin eta to Lhat the Mfermans at Ostend seized many n'fles, ■jaantities of ammunition and two hi nH[red undamaged locomotives.