FRANCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 84, 4 September 1914, Page 8

FRANCE

THE PRICE SHE IP AID. HUNDREDS OF LIVES FOR FOOT OF GROUND. TRIBUTE TO BRITISH STRENGTH. Times and Sidney Sun Services. Received 3, 6.15 p.m. London, September 3. A British officer states that for every foot of ground the Britisli lost the Germans paid hundreds of lives. The division had proved itself equal to a German army corps. "FRANCE WILL NEVER YIELD." THE LONDON "TLUES" ON THE SITUATION. WHAT FRANCE WOULD HAVE EXPERIENCED. A LONG CAMPAIGN PREDICTED. Times and Sydney Sun Services., Received 3, fi.ls p.m.. London, September 3. The Times, in a leader, gays: "Tho war is going to be a long one. Should the Allies keep theij enemies at bay, the German army will still take a great amount of dislodging from. France. Should the Germans make good their advance towards Paris, we and our Allies Will doggedly enter upon the task of wearing them down. Fiance knows full well that if she yielded she would he crushed, never to rise again; hut France will never yield." A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE. SEAT OF GOVERNMENT MOVED FROM PARIS. Received 3, 9.40 p.m. Paris, September 3. The Cabinet has decided to shift th# seat of (Tiivernment to Tours, and later to Bordeaux. THE NEW AIR SPORT. COUNTING BULLET HOLES. Paris, September 2, Aviator scouts have invented a new sport. It consists in scoring the bullet holes in their machines. Each hole is marked with red chalk to prevent its being included in the next day's total. The present record is 37 holes in ona dav.

Other aviators are occupied in conveying the machine, guns from the repairing shops to the troops. (While the aviators were counting up the bullet holes, apparently, the Gllrman Zeppelins whisked along and dropped a few bombs into Paris).

MIGfl (X>MISSIONEK'S CABLE. London, September 2. The, French army continues the. offensive, and has gained ground in the Lorraine region. FRHXCII MILITARY CIRCLES , OPTIMISTIC. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 3, 0.15 p.m. London, September 3. Optimism prevails in military circles in Paris. RED UIIOSS BRIGADE. Paris, September 2. Forty Red Cross automobiles have left -Lille for the neighborhood where the dead and wounded are in exceptionally large numbers. (Lille is probably SO miles from where the three days' fighting took place).