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Show I PORTUGAL IS NOW I WITH M ALLIES London, Nov. 24. 10:60 P m A dis-I dis-I patch from Lisbon says that the Port uguese confess today decided that I Portugal should eo-operate with the I allies when it considers the step nec I essary. The minister of war will is sue a decree for partial mobilization. London. Nov. 25. 2.3.' a m "Ger-I "Ger-I many's scheme to establish a naval base at Zeebrugge has been thwarted by British warships." says the Dally Mail's Rotterdam correspondent. I "Zeebrugge is burning, the Solvay works, near the Bruges ship canal, are a heap of ruins and the sections of six submarine boats which had heen taken there are reduced to twisted iron A large quantity of stores also was destro ed . '"The bombardment lasted from 2 o'clock until 5 o'clock Monday after I noon The coast guard building and the public schools were destroyed The military trains at the Solvay I v. orks were blown to fragments and a large crane which was being used I for putting the submarines together simply disappeared. "In desperation the Germans tried I tn remove their stores, including the j apparatus for making hydrogen for I Zeppelins, to Bruges, but found a sec- 1 tion of the railway had been blown jj "For several weeks the euemv had been collecting stores at and fortify- I ing Zeebrugge in the hope of making it a strong naal base." |