FRENCH RECEIVING HEAVY REINFORCEMENTS.
AFRICAN TROOPS ENTRAIN AT BORDEAUX.
WOUNDED RETURNING IN CROWDED TRAINS.
(Received September 23, 2.20 a.m.)
Paris, September 22.
The French Minister for War, M. Millerand, is despatching heavy reinforcements from a large body of Turcos and Senegalese who have entrained at Bordeaux for a destination not specified.
Every evening trains crammed with wounded crawl back from the front. Thirty coaches compose a train, each packed fuller than an excursion train. The wcg-st cases are lucky if they can lie at full length.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15721, 23 September 1914, Page 8
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