FRANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 67, 7 August 1914, Page 5

FRANCE.

a french victory. German cavalry repulsed near nancy. < Received 5, 5.3"> p.m. London, August 5. ' A detachment of German cavalry crossed the French border near Nancy. A sharp engagement occurred, the i French killing fifty and taking seventy- ' live prisoners. BOMBARDMENT OF BONAH. A SWIFT REVENGE. MOVEMENTS OF MEDITERRANEAN FLEETS. London, August 5. A German cruiser fired sixty shots at Donah. Algeria, and Hie batteries replied. The cruiser left in the direction of Gibraltar. It is believed in Paris that she was captured by the British vessels guarding the Straits. . Rome advices state that tlic German Mediterranean squadron in the neighborhood of Messina lhas been instructed to join the Austrian squadron to attack f;e Frencli fleet. French destroyers captured two big "■■rnian sailing vessels in tlie Nortli Sea and took them to Dunkirk and i 'ilais. It is reported that the Germans at ■ldz shot Alexis Samian, president of 1:1.' Anti-German Society, and imprisoned ;i!l the members. Tiie British Consul at Treport report--1 that a German cruiser had been seen grappling for the tvr.us-Atlantic cables "if Newfoundland. GERMANS AS PRISONERS. TROPRLE WIT!: V VI'LANS. Received 5, 10.40 p.m. Paris, August 5. The streets are peaceful. Germans ■ are flocking to the American Consulate, trying to get home. The authorities are sending them to towns in the west , of France, where they will remain till the war is over. ' | Forty-two have been arrested as spies • since Saturday. The Germans shot seventeen Alsatians ' while endeavoring to cross the frontier 1 at Mulhausen.