France

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 15, 4 September 1914, Page 5

France

HER.DOCGED TASK.

THE LONDON TIMES ON THE SITUATION. .

Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, September 2.

Tlie Times, in a leader, says:—"The war is going to be a long; one. Should the Allies keep their enemy at bay, the German army will still take a great amount of dislodging from France. Should the Germans make good their advance towards Paris, wo and our Allies will doggedly enter upon the task of wearing them down. France knows full well that if she yielded she would be crushed, never to rise again; but France will never yield."

GERMANY PAYING FOR THE GROUND WITH BLOOD.

London, September ?>.

A British officer states that for evenfoot of ground the British lost the Germans paid hundreds of lives. The division had proved itself equal to a German army corps.

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT MOVED

FROM PARIS.

[United Peiwu AHfociATioN.l Paris, September 3

The Cabinet has decided to shift the seat of Government to Tours, and later to Bordeaux.

Berlin to Paris,

GERMAN COLUMN MARCH AS

THOUGH ON PARADE.

Tims and Sydney Sun Services. London, September 3.

An English artist arrested by the Germans at Namur has been releasee!. He describes the Germans' splendid organisation, columns marching as: though on parade, and officers giving orders like pistol-shots. An officer •narked his disapproval of a man who was slightly out of line by spitting upon him. The transport wagons are marked "Berlin to Paris."

GERMAN SPY ARRESTED.

London, September 2

A German spy, wearing a British captain's uniform, was arrested atrthe •. front, conversing with British officers. He Avas wearing the JJYenqh audjGei'i j man uniforms beneath the British. FRENCH MILITARY CIRCLES OPTIMISTIC.:,; jj rri«dj London. September 3. Optimism prevails; jin; liiijiitaj-y. (4i'- 3 \ cles. BOMBS FROM THE SKY INTO ANTWERP. [United Press Association.] Antwerp, September 2. A Zeppelin hovered over, the city for four hours* fjtytyt ,s,»»rjtjiJigUt!j,.located it. At dawn'bombs were dropped, wounding .;L2, ..p^on/^,apd djinuigiug, the Red Cross