FRENCH AIRMAN'S EXPLOIT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 September 1915, Page 5

FRENCH AIRMAN'S EXPLOIT.

FIGHTING IN ALSACE.

FRANCE'S YOUNGER TROOPS.

RESISTLESS DASH AND DARING.

AMSTERDAM, Sept, 3. A French airman safely flew over Brussels and bombed the Landsturmers' barracks at Etterbeck, damaging thera greatly. He also bombed and I destroyed the. neighboring gas factory, killing and wounding-the majority of the spaS. ( PARIS, Sept. 3. Official— Describing Urn months' fighting at Lingekopf, Barrenkopf,, and Schratzwaennele, a correspondent says that one attack was made by mostly , young troops of the 1915 class. It was ' their first big battle., <and the general i commanding them declares that he thrilled with pride seeing them dash furiously on the enemy under, a hot I fire. They flung themselves over the trenches, literally trampling the Germans underfoot,1 and cleared the crests. They went right pact* but neglected to clear the first lines and polish off the Germane sheltering therein. Thug their/efcce&sive daring robbed the see r ond line of-the chance of supporting: them. ' 'r>^ '

In •another a*tact the company reached the wire entanglements, and, were forced to entrench. Singing the Marseillaise, they repulsed a violent counter-attack. They were summoned to surrender; font le^d their ground for thirty-«ix hours, thue enabling the neighboring unifes to continue progress.