GERMANS IN FRANCE.
SEVENTY MILES FROM PARIS. REPELLED EAST OF GUISE. LONDON, August 31. The High Commissioner reports:— Official: Three hundred wounded British have reached London. They were accorded stirring recej)tions. The soldiers are anxious to return to the fighting, but say that the Boer War was a "picnic" compared .with this. - The House of Lords decided that the Moratorium* should "continue. Reliable: German forces are in the region of La Fere, seventy miles from Paris. An army of 150,000 repelled the Germans east of Guise. The Germans compelled the Allies' left wing to give ground. German troops are leaving Belgium, presumably to strengthen the resistance to the Russian advance. [La Fere, iu 1901, had a population; of :U)S:>. It is a fortress of the second class, and has an artillery school.]
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 178, 2 September 1914, Page 7
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