FALSE REPORTS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 216, 16 October 1914, Page 7

FALSE REPORTS.

ENGAGEMENTS WITH CAVALRY. GERMANS DRIVEN BACK. PARIS, October 15. A communique states that the German newspapers/ statements that two French cavalry-divisions have been destroyed is entirely false. The 'truth is that French and German eavalry, with supports, have been vengaged for several days on the La Bassee-Estaires-Bailleul front. The Germans have made small progress between the La Bassee Canal and the but their other cavalry have been driven back to the north of the Lys with losses. . One German division suffered severely because French aviators pursued it for a whole day and incessantly dropped bombs on the troops;