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Tfni FRENCH ADVANCE. INUNDATING A VALLEY. London, August 10. The I'all Mall Gazette -says that an 'official message states the Germans are 1 trying to inundate the Seille Valley, in order to delay the Fn'iicli advance on •Metz. FURTHER PROGRESS. A PATHETIC INCIDENT. Received 12, 1.20 a.m. Paris, August 11. It is reported that troops from Mulhausen occupied Colmar. An armored train is repairing the railway between Belfort and Mulhausen. There was a pathetic incident at Paris, where a great crowd, including many of the veterans of 1870, removed the crepe wherewith Hie Strasburg statue had been swathed for forty years. The ceremony was conducted with the utmost dignity. The crowds gave only subdued applause, and was intensely moved.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 70, 12 August 1914, Page 5
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