MILLION MEN ON FRONTIER.
ARMY FROM ALGERIA. BELGIANS CAPTURE PRISONERS. PARIS, August 14. The French are bringing an army corps from Algeria, making twenty-two army corps, which, with the Belgians three, will make a million men on the frontier, as compared with twenty-five German army corps and two Austrian. The Algerians include the famous Turcos sharpshooters, who will be remembered for their reckless bayonet charges in Upper Alsace in 1870. It is reported that the Russian Con-jsul-General at Frankfort was beaten
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 163, 15 August 1914, Page 9
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81MILLION MEN ON FRONTIER. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 163, 15 August 1914, Page 9
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