FRENCH AND BELGIAN ARMIES.
JUNCTION COMPLETED
PROSPECTIVE STRUGGLE IN
ALSACE
(Received August. 16, 5:5 p.m.) Paris, August 15
' An official report states that the junction of the French and Belgian armies has been completed. Three French staff officers are attached to the Belgian headquarters, and two Belgian officers are with the French. A great struggle is exported in Upper Alsace, where the French have every interest to assume the offensive and sweep the-province clear of Germans, preparatory to co-operating with the central army opposite Metz and Luxemburg. An official report .states that the French in considerable strength are advancing to Gembloux via Charleroi. -' A Zeppelin airship commenced a reconn:iJss:i:K".' above Nancy on August Bth. Pen-in, an aviator attached to the garrison, immediately went out, outmanoeuvring the Zeppelin, and without
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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13549, 17 August 1914, Page 5
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129FRENCH AND BELGIAN ARMIES. Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13549, 17 August 1914, Page 5
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