FRANCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12916, 13 October 1914, Page 2

FRANCE.

By Electric Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright. (Times— Sydney Sun Service.) LONDON, Oct. 11. An army chaplain says the British generally fight or march en Sundays. He describes the holding of a service without a surplice in a wood where the troops were bviouacking on straw inches deep, water a foot deep and mud all round. An officer states there was a large attendance at Holy Communion. This service was held in black darkness, excepting two candles on a packing case which served as ah altar, and a I tin mug was the chalice. The soldiers, grimed with battle, each carrying a rifle, knelt in a circle round the light. Referring to the interest in religious services in the French armies, a correspondent says:—"The war has brought to bear on the life of the country a healing and unifying influence." A Taube aeroplane dropped two bombs on the outskirts sf Paris and injured two persons. A correspondent describing the continuous din of the artillery fire says at first it presses with leaden weight over the ears and head. After a time the soldiers take no notice and when it ceases they are awakened by silence and even feel a little dull without it. He adds: "The French have suffered terribly. You see it on the battlefields and in the long trains of wounded. Thirteen thousand have already passed through the doctors' hands at Nancy." Two German aeroplanes dropped twenty bombs in Paris, killing three and wounding fourteen. One fell on *Notre Dame, but did not burst. BORDEAUX, Oct. 11. ' Five hundred German prisoners have been sent to Morocco. PARIS, Oct. 11. The British cavalry during the battle of the Aisne were bored by inaction and petitioned General Allenby to allow them to serve in the trenches. As their carbines were useless General Allenby armed a third of the cavatlry with rifles and bayonets similar to the mounted infantry in South Africa.