FRENCH TROOPS' SPIRIT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 11 August 1914, Page 5

FRENCH TROOPS' SPIRIT.

"THEY DREAM OF BAYONET CHARGES."

(Received Aug. 11, 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 10. in the lively cavalry engagements to the south the French are showing their superiority, as the following incident shows. A German patrol officer and twenty-two Uhlans met a French patrol officer and seven mounted Chasseurs The Germans hesitated and the French officer dashing forward at full gallop killed the German officer. The twenty-two Uhlans fled in disorder abandoning their officer's body ' . The Ministry of War desires the importance of the Mulhausen engagement not to be exaggerated. The fight o_T the advance guards consisting of a r 1810?*^16^ 6 as significant, and showed that the Germans still fear the bayonet as in the revolutionary wars iJp~ n,f/ w %' wri ting *°the Minister of War a few days ago, said his men speak not of decimating the enemy by gun and rifle, but by fierce i iSJSScfe- They dream -