FRENCH DRAGOONS AMBUSHED.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 169, 22 August 1914, Page 9

FRENCH DRAGOONS AMBUSHED.

GERMANS IN A HOUSE

WOMAN CONDEMNED TO DIE

(Received August 22, a.m.)

LONDON, August 21.

A court martial at Belfort condemned to death the wife of a German Forest Guard, who cut off the head of a French soldier. Her husband was sentenced to twenty years' hard labour. They hid German soldiers in their house, and led

a patrol of French Dragoons into the ambush, the dragoons losing one killed j mid two wounded.

I Maastricht telegrams state that the Liege forts are still holding out. London doctors are of the opinion that the defenders must now be stone deaf. ABUSE OF RED CROSS. MORE GERMAN TREACHERY. LIEGE FORTS STILL HOLD OUT. PARIS, August 21. The Germans at Mulhausen, knowing the French were sparing the Alsatians as much as possible, concealed themselves in houses, protected by the Red Cross, from where they fired on the French. The latter directed a devastating infantry and artillery fire, and all the Germans coming out of the houses were killed. Twenty-four were killed and six guns and a hundred prisoners captured. An official statement says that the ; Liege forts are still holding out.