FRANCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 76, 19 August 1914, Page 5

FRANCE

ROUGH RIDERS FOR FRANCE. SPY SENTENCED TO DEATH. Paris, August 17. The rough riders corps now recruiting includes several American cowboys, a number of jockeys and many Englishmen. The- squadron is entirely self supporting and is armed with carbines, sabres and automatic pistols. The Government is twice daily sending wireless war news in German, French, and English from Eiffel Tower. Gruaualt, a Frenchman, was courtmartialled and sentenced to death for offering the Cologne Gazette details of the wireless station on the Eiffer tower and the aerodrome at Issy-les-Mouli-neaux. If the sentence is carried out, Gruaualt. will be the first spy to lie executed in France, though wild rumors state that 1573 have already been shot. THE FRUITING IN ALSACE. ALLIES* ARTILLERY EFFECTIVE. BIG' BAGS OF PRISONERS. London, August 17 . Telegrams from Basle report fresli fighting between Belfort and Altkircb. The Press bureau states that a visit to the scene of the tight in Upper Alsace shows the great destructive effect of the allied forces artillery. A trench that had been abandoned'was full of dead and wounded. Paris, August ] 7. The first captured .German flag has arrived in Paris. On Sunday French operations wer-: developing on the line from Rechicourt to Sainte Marie Aix Mines. The advance was especially rapid in the Scliirmerk valley, where the French made a thousand prisoners, in addition to the five Jiundred captured on the previous day. They captured several heavy guns and field pieces at Sainte Marie and nineteen transport waggons at Blamont. FRENCH OCCUPY COL MAR. Received 10, 12.20 a.m. Rome, August 18 (morning). A telegram from Bash' states that the French have occupied Colmar, in Alsace.

EXPELLED FROM MOROCCO. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 18," 5.10 p.m. ; London, August IS. < Germans and Austrians have been ex- i pelh'd from Morocco, because it is il- ' leged that they were intriguing in aiiti- , French plots amongst the natives. RAPID MOBILISATION OF TROOPS. I .Received 18. OV-13 p.m. Paris, August JS. 'Mobilisation was so ranid in France that one and a quarter millions of Held troops were at their nosts on August 12, in addition ;,o troops at -he garrisons. A VETERAN VOLUNTEER. Received 18, 10.5 p.m. August IS. Despite his 5i years, Maurice Maeterlinck, dramatist and essayist, has volunteered for the Belgian army, declaring that "the- enemy of -.mankind nmsf. be fought at all costs." At present he is assisting in tlie harvest work in Normandy. SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR PRISONERS. Received IS, 0.-15 p.m. Paris, August IS (morning]. The French and 'Russian stall's luive arranged for the Alsai.ian, Lorraine, and Polish prisono's to receive special treatment. FRENCH CAVALRY SWEEP THE COUNTRY. GERMANS FLEE OR HIDE AWAY. Received 11), 1120 a.m. Paris, August IS. After tlm Dinanl. light, the French I cavalry organised as for a big battle, • swi-Tit the front of the allied army bun: 1 of Germans and Uhlans, and made many - prisoners. The fiennans showed little - li-lil.ofteiiahaniloning their horses and 1 hid in wheat stacks, hoping to escanc. after the Allies' cavalry had passed. '