USED A CANAL.
GERMAN PLAN. (Received October 22,'nocn) • PARIS, October 21. Between Roye and Arras, the Germans utilised a cutting for a-new canal sixty miles long between Arleux and Noyon, which afforded facilities for formidable military operations, Largely explaining the Allies' slow progress and resulting in the desperate fighting in ,the Lassigny, Roye, Hezel and Rosset districts.
NOT HIT_BY MINE. . (Received October 22, noon.) LONDON, October 21. The Holland-Amerika liner Potsdam has arrived, but the story that she was struck by a mine in the North Sea is contradicted.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11215, 22 October 1914, Page 6
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