BRITISH, BELGIANS, AND FRENCH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 37, 12 August 1914, Page 7

BRITISH, BELGIANS, AND FRENCH.

REPORTED JUNCTION. SYDNEY, 11th August.'*" An Independent Cable Association message says official reports from Brussels state that a junction has been - effected bftween the British, Belgian, and French troops across the German line of advance. i ______ TO SMASH FRANCE THREE GERMAN ARMY CORPS. FRENCH BULLETS CAUSE SERIOUS WOUNDS. LONDON, 11th August. The Daily Chronicle states that Germany detailed three armies to smash France. The Northern Army co-opei'at-ing with the Ardennes Army was to be flung against the French left, while the Third Army held the French right in check. The Belgians upset the scheme. Evidence of the un preparedness of the German attack is accumulating. German prisoners in Belgium state that new boots were served out and their feet were cut to pieces in consequence. The high and heavy boots were unsuitable for quick marching. The French doctors state the French bullets caused much more serious wounds than the German. VOSGES MOUNTAINS FRENCH CAPTURE PASSES. PARIS, 10th August. The French on Saturday night captured the passes of Bonhomme and Saint Marie through the Vosges Mountains, and they also hold the "summits commanding St. Marie-aux-Mines. [The Vosges mountains stretch along the west side of the Rhine Valley in a north north-east direction for a distance of 150 miles. Since 1871 the southern half of tho range has fanned the boundary between France and Germany. The southern end of the range is the Ballon d'Alsace (the rounded summits of the range are known as "ballons"). This point is a few miles north of the French fortifications at Belfort, and the range, which averages 3000 ft in height, is an important topographical element in French defence. The range has a, steep fall on the Germaji side, and a gradual slope on the French.] STRONGLY HELD THE FOREST OF HART. BOTH ARMIES REINFORCED. PARIS, 10th August. It is officially stated the French troops continue to hold Ferney, Mulhausen, Altkirch. Before them is the Foi-est of Hart, which ie strongly /held. Numerous skirmishes have taken place along, the whole front. Both the Germans and the French have been reinforced. A hundred French were killed and. wounded in the action at Altkirch. [The Hart-wald is one of the German forests on the east side of the Vosges range. It is about thirty miles long in a north a.nd south direction, and from fivejto eight miles wide, and Mulhausen' liea on the eastern side.] ON THE ROAD TO STRASBURG FRENCH OCCUPY COLMAR. PARIS, 11th August. It v is reported that French troops from Mulhausen have occupied Colmar, which lies twenty-seven miles further on, on the road to Strasburg. An armoured train is repairing the railway between Belfort and Mulhausen. [Colmar is the capital of Upper Alsace. It is forty miles south of Strasburg, and eight miles west of tho German fortress of Nou-Brewach.]