FRENCH ADVANCE INTO BELGIUM

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2230, 17 August 1914, Page 5

FRENCH ADVANCE INTO BELGIUM

LARGE FORCE MOVING NORTH : 250,000 GERMAN TROOPS IN THE MEUSE — VALLEY i —' i(Roo. August 16, 5.5 p.m.) • Kis officially stated, that a French' force of considerable strength via vnwleroi on the town'of Gembloux.eleven miles north-west of Namur; / . ' FRENCH TAKE A THOUSAND PRISONERS. ' rn. -n i. *«. Paris, August I^. ! ,*,*iJ?kttahons French village of Spincourt, about twenty i 7.-r m .r® German base at Thionville, on Tuesday afternoon "sustained."ari. i?• 4• * m j a ransiaenably larger Gorman force and "were compelled to ; retreat. ! - night' by infantry arid artillery, the French counter-attacked,' aiid 1 a !>rflhMt'.OTcoe&, the Germans abandoning a battery aiid three iriitririli s - u . 5 5%, ammunition wagons, and leaving many wounded. * • ' After the Rwh battery on Thursday had surprised' the German Dragoons, the I'rencir took ■a _ thousand prisoners, who had been 'wounded the day be-' J or ®i> including nin& officers, ' Tho German column in'this region.'is 'nW te* treating* 1 * - •. GERMANS ENTRENCH VALLEY, OF THE OURTHE. <m. c , Brussels, August 11. tL,£?? WP? continue to pour troops through a gap, at' Treves!" towards ■ *?ai)ce. ihey. reached Spincourt, m France, and Arlon, in tho south of Belgium, Wednelday^by 1 the French border of Luxemburg,'on ' In; Belgium ' the Germans are pouring through the valley of the Ourthe towards Narmir oJd-Hny. .The Valley of the OurtV is being, heavily entrenched in order to-hamper pursuit, in case of o, possiblo defeat With General troops at Liege it' is estimated that there' are corps/totalling-250,000. in the Mouse Valley, The French battory at Spincourt on Thursday surprised the 21st German Dragoons with a gunfiro which practically destroyed tno regiment. I A hundred large calibre shells, each weighing a a.heavy ch.argo of picrito, foil at Pont-a-Moussoli, fifteen miles south I of 'Jfetz. . They were hred from ten' kilometres wist of the town.' I-he bombardment did email damage, four being killed and ten wounded. ' / NAMUR HEAVILY GARRISONED AND READY. (Roc. August 16, 5.5 p.m.) ■ki xi it>>. . . Brussels, August 15. iNamur, the second Belgium fortress on the Mouse, is heavily garrisoned, .!u!'y suuation makes it stronger than Liege'. Many French holding the left bank of (he"Mease supported by nlitrtiillousos. ThSy are in high spjrits and anxious lor fighting. It is understood the tfanip9rtatio.il'of the French t?SPP3.J'?®?. °9WeJ;e(l.-; .Clio inhabitants at Naimlf have been distonieit in order that the Germans ffifty have no preteit for wreaking vcngearice oh"the civil population, -