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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11215, 22 October 1914, Page 1

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LATE SEWS. _ I Late -news will be found as fol- [ lows: I ' . Pagii. | THE WAR .... land 6 : MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES . 1 | " A TALL STORY '* . . ~5 i COLOSSAL DEBT . . j. FEDERAL POLITICS ... 5 ; SPORTING NOTES . . . 5 , I IF GERMANY IS CRUSHED ~5 DEAD AS A DOOR NAIL .5 MYSTERIOUS RUSSIANS '', .• 6 ■ CHILD'S DEATH. • An eight-year-old infant, named, v Charles Goarscawski, residing at Hill's Road, Marshland, was found suffocated on 1 tho rails of its cct this morning shortly after ten o'clock. Tho child, which was an invalid from birth, and confined to its cot, was hanging by a cord. It is presumed that in trying . to get out it fell and caught its Jiead in the string. PORTUGAL ABLAZE. v ""'. i WILL SHE FIGHT. ' : i LISBON, October 21. '• , . With a view to preventing the Go- , vernment assisting Britain, Royalists have circularised tho barracks urging: the troops not to obey tho Government. Slight insurrections at Mafia and Bra--'ganza were crushed. Preparations for j' war are proceeding actively. [ i -. "U. '' THE NAVY SPEAKS. t ■■■:<■■ GEARMANS SHELLED. ! LONDON, October 21. The Press Bureau states that tho',, warships. off Belgium' watched tLc enemy at night digging' trenches by flames, took the exact range and she.led ■ the enemy at daylight, inflicting six-., teen hundred casualties in one day and • wrecking six batteries.' The first ■ on Sunday destroyed a Taube. . It is reported that the guns brought down a -Zeppelin on Monday. . | THE EMDEX AG-AJ.N". LONDON, October-21. - Lloyds' Colombo correspondent re- j- - ports that the Emden sank the British},'; steamers Chilkana, Troiles, Benrnohr,' Clan Grant and the dredge Pourabbel bound for Tasmania, and captured the , Exford 150 miles south-west of the ■ , Cochin. Captain Miacapello, of the Ita'ian steamer Loredono, though saved several British vessels from the Emdc-n in the Bay of Bengal. Lord Cloud Carmichael, at Madras, present-' cd him with a bold watci, and' rewarded the crew. " LOWER THE FLAG." (Received- October 22, 4.15 p.m.) LONDON, October 21. j-. - The capt-ain.v.-of the steamer Giitfa : gt'atesp-.jtli'atr". a German submarine sent i ii'v.e-.iiien -ftboaid, ordered the Eng'isli flag to be lowered, threatening to shoot the captain, and gave him ten min-t-as to lower the lifeboats. Subsequent'y thoy were picked up by a Norwegian torpedo boat.