FRANCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 2 September 1914, Page 5

FRANCE

DRAWING THE LONG BOW.

TOO EXTRAORDINARY COOLNESS.

Times-Sydney Sun Special Services. Received 1, 5.40 p.m. London, September 1. A Zouave officer tells extraordinary instances of coolness of men under fire. "We were entrenched on a sort of spur, amid a tornado of shot and shell. We repeatedly had the order, "Men, be prudent." But they stood up and chaffed one another in the trenches. One man calmly slept through the racket, and when we evacuaftid the position -we had to arouse Mm."

BOULOGNE NOT ABANDONED,

~NO UHLANS IN THE VICINITY.

London, August 31

Reuter's Boulogne correspondent reports that the Governor is still there. The alarming reports arc entirely baseless. There is no reason for the belief that Uhlans are in the vicinity.

BRITISH 'DISCIPLINE. London, August 31. Civilian eye-witnesses at Amiens testify that the British retired intact and kept their lines together. No divisions were cut off.

POPULAR GENERAL PAU.

IN THE THICK OF THINGS,

Paris, August 31

General Pau's army from Alsilce report heavy fighting at liapaume throughout Friday. General Pau is the popular hero of France, and is expected to stem the tide of the German advance.

MORE MEM (W-.LED til'.

Paris. August 31

France is calling up the I{ll4 conscripts, alsp recalling the men on the active reserve and the- oldest classes of territorials who temporarily returned for the harvest.

A LUOKY ESCAIPE.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. Paris, August 31

Dunvii!i' Hall, artist, was captured by Uhlans, but secreted 'himself in a lav waggon and escaped and rejoined the colors.

COURAGEOUS AIRMEN. Times-Sydney Sun Special Services, London, 'August 31,

Correspondents state that airmen's coolness, courage and resource are a tremendous assistance to the Allies. I'landid covered 400 miles scouting and raiding Zeppelin sheds, and returned with uarW Ol ttU IU&UUUU niliktl Dullete - , ■..LLiILLfIV- : V'MJ