The Battle of Blamont.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 18 August 1914, Page 5

The Battle of Blamont.

GERMANS IN RETREAT. Paris, August 15. A Bavarian army corps held a strongly entrenched position before Blamont. A French division opened their attack on Friday night. After rushing the German outposts back, they suspended operations till dawn on Saturday, when the infantry advanced under powerful artillery fire, and soon drove the Germans out of Blamont and Circy. The Gormans then occupied a hill overlooking the villages from the northward, but the French advanced and the Bavarians withdrew towards Saarburg, leaving many dead and wounded on the hillsides.A French force four miles south of Saarburg occupied the Domm, one of the chief summits of the Vosges, just beyond the frontier, and further northward in the Briey district. The retreating Bavarians pillaged houses and maltreated civilians. The retreating Germans in Alsace burned many houses and shot a number of the inhabitants. SENSATIONAL WORK IN THE AIR BY TWO FRENCHMEN, Paris, August 10. Lieutenant Cesar and Corporal Prunsommeau, aviators, left Verdun on Friday evening in separate aeroplanes to reconnoitre at Metz. Cesar at 3000yds high, and the corporal at 2500yds, were subjected to a ceaseless rain of shots. Cesar’s engine stopped at a critical moment. He decided not to lose his life for nothing, and volplaned, and launched a bomb over the fort. Then the engine started again. Meanwhile the corporal had launched a projectile, but was unable to state the effect. Both got back safely. .