FRENCH STAND THEIR GROUND

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 70, 12 August 1914, Page 5

FRENCH STAND THEIR GROUND

BOTH FORCES STRENGTHENED. Received 11. 0.30 p.m. Paris, August 10. It is officially reported that the French troops continue to hold Ferney, Mulhausen and Altkirch. Before them is the. forest of Hart, which is strongly held. A number of skirmishes occurred along the whole front. Both Germans and French have been reinforced. A hundred French were killed and' wounded at Altkirch. Paris, August 10. In the lively cavalry engagements in the south the French are showing their superiority, as the following incident shows:—A German patrol officer and twenty-two Uhlans met a French patrol officer and seven mounted ChasseuTs. The Germans hesitated, and the French office), dashing forward at full,gallop, killed the German officer and the twenty-two Uhlans fled in disorder, abandoning their officer's body. The Minister of War desires that the importance of the Mulhausen engagement should not be exaggerated. It was a light of advance gua'ds, consisting of a division a-piece. It is significant that the Germans still fear the bayonet, as in the revolutionary wars. eneial Joffre,- writing to the Minister, a few days ago, said: "The men speak not of decimating the memy with the gun and rille, but of fierce bayonet charges. They dream of bayonet charges."