BOULOGNE ABANDONED BY THE ALLIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15701, 31 August 1914, Page 6

BOULOGNE ABANDONED BY THE ALLIES.

UHLANS REPORTED TO M CLOSE TO AMIENS.

GERMANS STEADILY ADVANCING TOWARDS THE SOUTH

ALTERATIONS IN BRITISH LINES OF COMMUNICATION.

(Received August 81, 1 a.m.)

Paris, August 30.

It is officially announced that the military governor has ordered all residents beyond the city's defending forts to evacuate and destroy their houses within four days.

The allies have abandoned Boulogne on the ground that it is strategically unimportant in view of the urgent need of strengthening the left of the allies.

The latter are taking breath after the strenuous fighting of the

past week.

Passengers from France report that the Governor of Boulogne has departed, and that the Uhlans are advancing in that direction. The Uhlans are also within seven miles of Amiens, which is 50 miles beyond Cambrni, find within 80 miles of Paris.

The Daily Mail's Amiens correspondent states that the Germans are advancing incessantly, but that there is hope of checking them.

The Germans have, hitherto carried all before them by sheer weight of numbers and in spite of the deadly hail of the Maxims. England, says the correspondent, should realise that reinforcements are imperatively necessary.

There are indications that the British route of transporting the wounded and forwarding reinforcements and supplies will be transferred.

Amiens, the capital of the department of Somrac, is situated on the River Somme. It is 01 miles north of Paris on the northern railway to Calais. During the war between France and Germany, Amicus, after an important action, fell into the hands of the Prussians on November 28, 1870.

Boulogne, n French seaport on tlio English Channel, is 20 miles south-west of Calais, ami 30 miles from Folkestone,