FRANCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 25 August 1914, Page 5

FRANCE

jj IN THE VOSGES. ■; #g|. THE FRENCH ARMY PRESSES FORWARD. j BOTH SIDEsToSE HEAVILY. ' * FRENCH PEOPLE CRYING FOR J NEWS. London, August 23 f \ French reports confirm that recect fighting secures the virtual occupation of the eastern face of the Vosges front Donon to Ballon. Reuter's Paris correspondent states that the French losses in the Vosges during the last three (lays have been Very heavy, and the German indisputably as great. An official statement says that the French left were in the small neutral zone inside the frontier when the Germans advanced to the crests of the hills and had to be dislodged. The %mch captured Hobneck and Schlucht. The difficulties were greater in tlie central section, where the Germans wero entrenched, The French got round bv the Urbeis and Saales passes and shelled the German rear. The operations were costly, especially at Saales, but paved the way for the occupation of Donou and Saales, and opened up the Bruche valley. The Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent says the only point of French territory occupied is Audun-le-Roman, a town let on the railway, 25 miles northwest of Metz. Some German prisoners in the East Ardennes state that they were ordered not to return without a kepi as a proof of their encounter with the French outposts. ' Paris, August 2S. M. Clemenceau, in the Libre Parole, vigorously demands news, particularly concerning Alsace, adding: do not always expect victories, and avo quite equal to bearing trying events." "ONtiY iAN EPISODE AND A j MOMENTARY CHECK." Paris, August 23, It is oftk'ially stated that the Gei>ma:i oflicial telegrams report that the rever*.< in Lorraine on Thursday was transformed into a rout on Friday, in which the French lost teif thousand prisoners aul fifty guns. This is a ridiculous exaggeration. Tluv German success in Lorraine is 110 greater than the French achieved in Alsacc. The guns captured were certainly fewer, and the total killed, wounded, prisoners and missing did not nearly amount to ten thousand. No French detachments have crossed the Meurthc. All remain ttt Fort Nancy. The momentary reverse is only an episode in the struggle which will necessarily entail numerous episodes of ebb and flow. OTHER FRENCH ITEMS. DREYFUS' SON PROMOTE*. (Puris, August 83. The eldest son of Dreyfus is fighting at 'Mulbauscn and was promoted on the battlefield for gallant behaviour. NEW CUSTOMER FOR BRITAIN. Pari9, August 23". A number of firms arc asking British manufacturers for machine parts arid "ftonware 'hitherto supplied by Germany. A ZEPPELIN DESTROYED. Revived 24, 10.13 p.m_ Paris, August 24. It is officially slated that Zeppelin No. 8 has been shot down near Badenwieler (a Black Forest watering-place, near Basel). . THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS. Received 20, 12.30 a.m. Paris, August 24Alread-" seven thousand German prisoners are interned in France. PROTECTING LIFE INSURANCES. Received 24, 11.20 p.m. Paris, August 24The Government is arranging thatlifn policies which do not include war risKS shall be. made effective without any payment of extra premium, by the insured'.! relations or friends. . , .