France.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 34, 26 September 1914, Page 5

France.

PRISONERS OF WAR. BENCH PRISONERS AT LIEGE 15,000. GERMANS LOST 80,000. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.in.) London. September 2d. French prisoners passing through iege' threw scraps of paper from the ■ aiu containing the following:—e .re 15,000 prisoners from Mauheuge, mt the Germans lost 80,000.” OFFICIAL. r'c •. " [United Press Association.] (Received 8.55 a.m.) Paris, September cmfw Paris, September 25 (morning). On our left wing a battle is developng. In the centre is a lull. On our ight wing the German attacks seem o have been checked.

Paris, September 24. On the left, between the Somme ml the Oise, we have made progress a the direction of Roye. A detachsent occupied Peronne and maintain«d their position notwithstanding vigorous attack. The enemy between the )ise and the Aisne continued to keep irge forces firmly entrenched. We dvanced slightly to the north-west ,f Berryonbae. No change has occnr8d between Rheims and Argonne. The truggle continues, with alternate refr'efnent at certain points , and adance at others. There is no notable hange in the region of Nancy and he Vosges. Some detachments of the nemy tried to penetrate French ternary, driving hack our light covering tree, but the movement at the Somme as arrested.

RHESMS CATHEDRAL.

'- ADMISSION BY THE ENEMY.

Amsterdam, September 24. An official Berlin statement admits sing one. mortar shot against the Iheims Cathedral, because the field rtillery was ineffective to dislodge he observation post.

NURSES KILLED AT THE HOS-

PITAL AT RHEIMS.

(Received 9.15 a.m.) London, September 25. The Prefect of Marne reports that he German - shells at Rheims destroy, d the main hospital, Rilling five urses and wounding two. Seven7en soldier’s nurses were killed at he hospital.

THE POPE’S PROTEST.

HE POPE’S PROTEST TO THE

KAISER.

Rome, September 24. The newspapers state that the Pope clegraphed to the Kaiser deploring be damage to the Rheims Cathedral, (lying,: “When you destroy the tem>les of God, you provoke the Divine re, before which even potent armies Hse Oil power.”