RISING IN PORTUGAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15750, 27 October 1914, Page 8

RISING IN PORTUGAL.

INSURGENTS DISPERSED.

ANTI-MONARCHIST FEELING.

Times and Sydney Sun Services.

London, October 25.

The attempted rising in Portugal has apparently fizzled out. The insurgents at Mafra, near Lisbon, dispersed, abandoning their arms, upon the arrival of a small force of regulars. The officers of the Monarchist papers in Lisbon were wrecked last, night.

NEW ZEALAND IN ACTION.

FOURTEEN' MINUTES' FIRING

Writing to his uncle at Halifax, one of the New Zealand's crew semis an interesting description of the naval fi<jht in the Heligoland Bight. " The torpedo craft." he says, " had rather a lint time with the enemy in the early morning, hut suddenly we Appeared out of the mist. To say they were surprised is to put it mildly. Wans.' before they knew where they were, we were playing. Two of their ships. J am convinced, would have been floating to-day. but as our small .'hips gathered round them to take off their survivors—all their flags were struck— they opened fire, only to he sent to Davy •Jones's locker a Hub quicker than they could shoot. You have heaid me sav, no doubt, limes without i,umber, that the probable duration of naval action—once we engaged—would be about twenty minutes. Well, we succeeded in sending some good ships, and some unfortunate men, to the bottom in something like fourteen minutes. Not a bad score for th» cricket season, is it?'!