A HUGE TRENCH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIII, Issue LXVIII, 22 October 1914, Page 8

A HUGE TRENCH.

ASSISTS GERMAN RESISTANCE

REPORTS FROM PORTUGAL

TROOPS GOING TO FRANCE

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AMSTERDAM, Oct. 21

The Holland-Amerika liner Potsdam has arrived, but the story that she was struck by a mine in the North Sea is contradicted.

PARIS, Oct. 21

Between Roye and Arras the Ger- >. mans utilised the cutting for a new . canal sixty miles long between Arleux and Noyon, which afforded facilities for formidable military operations, and largely explains the Allies' slow pro^ gress, and resulted in desperate fighting in the Lassigny and Roye districts. yY.'■..""■'- LISBON, Oct. 21.

. The newspapers Seeulo and Repub- . Hca'statfe that Portugal is sending-eight ■ thousand •;■ artillery ,to France ??under ; C^%ral-^Jaims;? -Decastro; also four t^-^o^ ?^arines: and- artillerymen; ? ? : ry THe?Seculb^taH;es that when prepara-tions-are complete Portugal will send 90,000 men to the front.

AMSTERDAM, Oct. •21

Prince Wok-ad, a half-brother to the Duchess of Albany, was killed when on patrol duty on the western front.

Owing to negligence, a powder magazine near Brasschaet, north-east of Antwerp, exploded on Sunday, and some German soldiers were seriously injured.