France

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 94, 11 August 1914, Page 5

France

FIRST MILITARY MOBILISATION | OVER. j THE GOVERNMENT SETTING I 3USSNESS STRAIGHT. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] j [United Piiess Association.] (Received 8.5 a.m.) Paris, August 9. The first military mobilisation is over, and more trains are available for citizens. The Government is setting about organising agriculture and the industries, to enable national j life to proceed with the least incon-j venience. Abundant offers of male and female labor are being made, and I this will be distributed in the com- 1 munes according to the applications from employees. The Minister of Labor is increasing the transport of food stuffs by requisitioning horses and vehicles not \ requisitioned by the army. HANDSOME DONATION BY FRENCH GUNMAKER.

GERMAN SPIES SHOT. FRENCH AND BRITISH ACTION IN DAHOMEY. (Received 8.5 a.m.) Paris, August 9. Schneider, the Creusot gunmakor, recently agreed to furnish twenty-six batteries with 105-millimetre guns, but when the war broke out, Schneider forfeited the contract deposit and presented the batteries to the French Government. Fifty German spies have been captured, and, it is stated, were ordered to bo shot. The French garrison at Grandpopo, in Dahomey, acted in conjunction With a British cruiser in taking possession of Togoland. THE FRENCH ADVANCE ON METZ. GERMANS IN "HE SEILLE VALLEY. (Received 9.10 a.m.) The Pall MalFGazette says an official message states that tire Germans | are trying to inundate the Seille Val-j ley in order to delay the French ad-, vance on 'Metssj r !