French Turn the Tables.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 24 August 1914, Page 5

French Turn the Tables.

Germans Swept Back. A CHANGE OP GENERALS. LRABS TO FRENCH SUCCESS. GERMAN'S DRIVEN OVER THE RHINE' "RAPID AND DECISIVE FRENCH WORK. Received 24, 1250 a.m. Paris, August 23 (morning). It is officially reported tliat ■Mulhausen being dillieult to defend against attacks from east and north, and as German night attacks from the forest of Hard ami Neubrisack threatened to cut off retreat to lielfort, the French commander, instead of ordering the reserves at Altkirch to counter-attack the Germans threatening the French rear near Squiiheim, ordered them to retreat. (General Jofl're then entrusted the opc I .'- ations in the district to General Pau. The forces re-formed under the shelter of lielfort. The Germans meanwhile were suffering greatly from the Erenc.li artillery, while the French were hampered by the German Howitzers defiling in the ravines, which were difficult to localise. General Pau was strongly reinforce.!, and advanced on Thann, simultaneously advancing from the Vosges and threatening the German retreat. General Pan's attacks on Dammerkirch and Thann were rapid' and decisive, the Germans burning a graat : park at Djmmerkireh mi.w'OTwrafttlng. sp;to"W«. General .I'uu tlien ordered

I sack and the right on Alfckirch, threaten- ; ing the Germans on both wings. A hot light occurred, tho French capturing 2(t guns at Darnach, a suburb of Mulhauseii. Tho Germans retreated across the Rhine, and the French now hold the Rhine bridges. 1 GERMANS ROBBING THE ©HAD. UNDER COVER OF THE RED CROSS. ■Received 29, 5.5 p.m. Paris, August 22 (morning) The Germans bombarded an open village, Jfarslaloiir, for an hour while the .inhabitants were at church celebrating the anniversary of a famous battle. The. people took refuge in cellars. Two were killed. Eighty-three Germans were arrested at Mulhausen for robbing the dead and wounded. Home, used the Bed Cross badge to cover their misdeeds. They will lie com t martialled at Clermont and Ferrand. It is Teported that the French aviators destroyed a Zeppelin and three Taube aeroplanes at Frascati, near 'Metz. Tho French have already captured 1)1 pieces of German artillery, I{> military ' motov-waggons, four flags, and other war material. PLENTY OF .FOOD L\ T FRANCE. AT RECORD LOW (PRICES. GARIBALDI'S OFFER TO SERVE , FRANCE. Received 23, 5.5 pjn. iParis, August 22. The bulk of the rolling stock is resuming commercial trallic. Supplies of nil provisions are plentiful and cheap, as the number of consumers lias diminished. Veals sells wholesale at 4'/id to 5J per lb, and beef a penny more. These are almost the lowest prices recorded. The Petit Parisien states that General Joseph Garibaldi, and two ' others of Garibaldi's grandsons, nave arrived from Mexico, and oiler to form a volunteer legion. They declare that they can rais> 50,000 men. The police are prosecuting two large wholesale meat speculators for attempting to corner supplies. GERMAN PRISONERS IN FRANCE. A FOREIGN LEGION. Received 23, 5.f) p.m. Paris, August 23. A thousand German prisoners from llclgium were embarked at Dunkirk, and were taken to a western French port for internment. Eighteen thousand .foreign volunteers have been enrolled and paraded in the 1 Invalides under the Hags of their respective nationalities. They include 4508 Jews, 4.")00 Italians, WO Belgians, 3600 Russians, 2000 Swiss, 1008 Spaniards, 400 Britishers, and l'2o Americans. VIOLATION OF IffiD GROSS. A DEVASTATING FIRE. Paris, August 21. , The Germans at Mulhausen, knowing that the French were sparing the Alsatians as much as possible, concealed themselves in the houses protected by the Red Gross, whence they fired on the French. The laitter directed a devastating infantry and artillery fire on them and all 'the Germans on coming out of the houses were killed and 2A fi-incli guns and a hundred prisoners captured, , A French airman, at a place unnamed, encountered a division of German cavalry and dropped several bombs which did j great damage. Other airmen were hit ■ by rille fire and compelled to descend in J German territory. They hid in a wood | until nightfall, when they found another aviator who had been shot in the legs. He and his machine were safely brought into the French lines. I A court-martial at Bolfort to death, the wife of a German forest guard who cut off the head o£ a French soldier, and sentenced her husband to twenty years' hard labor. They hid German soldiers in their house and led a patrol pf French dragoons into an ambush, the dragoons losing 'one lulled ana two wounded.

THE HAGUE CONVENTIONS. ARTICLES DELIBERATELY BROKEN, Received 23, 0.20 I>- m - Paris, August 21. The 'French Government's appeal_ to the Powers states that Germans without warning bombarded Pontamousson, which was undefended. The fire Traß directed particularly on the ho ®G lt Jl l, which was flying the Red Cross, shells (fell in the town, killing seven and wounding eight, all women and children TSBfe many articles of the Hague Convention had been violated. AN AVTATOR'S DASH. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 22. 5.20 p.m. London, August 22. Captain Finck volplaned and with the use of bombs destroyed a hangar near >letz, wrecking a Zeppelin and three aeroplanes.