FRANCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 12 September 1914, Page 5

FRANCE

| COMPLETE EVACUATION BY i GERMANS. OF NORTH-WEST FRANCE. Received 11, (i..">o p.m. London, September 10 (evening). Renter's Paris correspondent says that tKe Germans have completely evacuated north-west France, except for small parties of Lilians, who are being gradually driven eastward. Traffic on the northern railway has been resumed. Trains went yesterday through districts where there was heavy fighting, and found the'country clear of the enemy.

GERMAN FORCES ISOLATED. • Received 1"2, 1.50 a.m. Paris, September 11. Tt is reported that many bodies of Germans still remain in the wooded country within the triangle from Senlis to Goushe to Dammaru. It ,is believed that these amount in all to' an army corps, also that they are cut off from tiie main body by -the Allies between Compiegue and Meaux, and enclosed on the west. CALLING UP FRESH MEN. Received 12, 1-55 a.m. Bordeaux. .September 11 (morning). A dcorco lm-s been issued commanding all who for various reasons a~e exempt from military service to submit themselves for further medical examination. GERMANS ADMIT DEFEAT. AFTER PARTIAL SUCCESS. Received 12, 1.50 a.m. Amsterdam, September 11. An official telegram from Berlin says: General von Stein announces that the army which had crossed the Marne east of Paris was heavily attacked hy the enemy between Paris, Meaux, and Montmitril. The lighting lasted for two days. The army had chocked the enemy and even advanced, but stronger hostile columns arrived, and the 'enemy won the battle, obliging ihe. Germans to retire. Fifty guns were captured, and some thousands of prisoners.