HOW BRITAIN HELPED FRANCE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 177, 1 September 1914, Page 5

HOW BRITAIN HELPED FRANCE.

TIME FOB REINFORCEMENTS. EASTERN GERMAN MOVEMENT IMPROBABLE. (Received September 1, noon.) LONDON, August 31. "The Times,' 1 in a leader, says, that the great service which the British Army has rendered, enabled the French reinforcements to reach the northern battlefield. "The Times's" military correspondent considers that an eastern movement of the German troops is improbable, because the western attack has not yet reached the maximum of its violence. • The slowness of the Russian advance has not occasioned any dire necessity fpr German reinforcements in the eastern theatre. " WE ARE AT THE GATES." NOTHING BUT SURRENEDR. AVIATOR DROPS MANIFESTO. A German aviator lias dropped a manifesto that the German Army is at the gates of Paris, and adding, "You can do nothing but surrender.'' HEAVY FIGHTING AT BAPAUME. POPULAR HERO IN £ARIS. ; GERMAN SUPERIORITY IN • MACHINE GUNS. (Received September 1, 8.20 a.m.) PARIS, August 31. General Pau's Army from Alsace reports heavy fighting 1 at Bapaume throughout Friday. General Pau is the popular hero in Paris. He is expected to stem the tide" of the German advance. British and French wounded agree that it is not the German artillery and rifle fire but their machine guns which

arc doing the damage. Germany lias many machine guns, and the Allies comparatively few. (Bapaume is a town of France in Pas 1 . de-Calais, .14 miles S.S.E. of Arras, It has a population »f ;>!)UD. It was there that on January '.',, 1871, the French suffered severely at the.hands of the Germans.]