Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
THE french AVA
II TORS DROP BOMBS
into GERMAN FORT
TWO DARING ARMY filters ATTEMPT TO DESTROY DR1G1BE
BALLOON SHED AT METZ-MoToR OF MACHINE STOPS
BRAVE STORM OF BU1LETs-TERRIF1C ATTACK DIRECTED
ON A1RMEN FROM GARR1soNs QUICK FIRING GUNS.
GREECE SENDS AN ULT|MATUM TO THE Turks
GREECE REPORTED ABOUT TO DEMAND EXPLANATION CON-
GENERATION ON THRACE FRoNT1ER-MANY GERMANS ARE
CAPTURED GERMANS ARE ENTRENcHED NEAR B1AMoNT
MANY ATROCITIES ARE COMMITTED

Paris, Aug. 17.-Details of dar
ing exploit at Metz carried out by
French military aviators were giver
yesterday in an official communica'
ton issued by the war Office which
says:
"At half past on Friday evening
Lieutenant Cesari and Corpora
Prudhomme, flying in separate aero
planes, left the French fortress Of
Verdun with orders to reconnoiter il
possible and destroy the dirigible
balloon shed in the German fortress
of Metz.
Lieutenant Cessari flew over the
fortress at height of nearly 5000
feet, while Corporal Prudhomme re-
manned at the lower altitude OF
about $500 feet.
"A terrific fire was directed on
the two aviators from the fortress
garrison and during the fusillade
the motor of the lieutenant's aero
plane stopped. As he did not wish
to fail in his mission he began to
volplane, and while doing this threw
a bomb with marvellous GOODNESS.
Shortly afterward he succeeded in
getting his motor started again.
"In the meanwhile the corporal
had hurled his projectile also.
1.-THE smoke over the city prevent
ed the aviators seeing whether they
had been successful, but they believ-
ed they had achieved their purpose
and few away amid a rain of shells
from quick firing guns. They re-
turned safely to Verdun."
The official communication con-
tinues:
Belgian and German troops were
reported to be fighting today near
Dinant, to the south Of Namur, Bel
GUM. French troops also were in
the vicinity.
"Over 500 German soldiers were
taken prisoners by the French when
they occupied number of noun
tains in the vicinity of Denou and
Rougemont, on the border Of Ger
man Lorraine on Friday.
"The Dutch troops in The Neither
lands province of North Barbant and
Limburg are showing discomfort
against the Germans, whom they &C
cuse of being responsible for the &C
tual situation. The Dutch officers
are finding difficulty in controlling
their men.
Further details of the fighting
around Blamont and Cirey-Sur-Ve-
zouzey, the French department of
Meuthe-et-Mozelle, show that the
Germans were strongly entrenched
between earthworks near Blamont
when on Friday evening the French
divisions began their attack. The
German outposts repulsed the
French, who at daybreak the fol-
lowing day resumed the offensive,
by artillery, and succeed
ed during the afternoon in taking
Blamont and Grey. The German
troops then occupied the heights to
the north, from which they were al
SO driven. The German casualties
were severe.
Cali the German and Austrian
subjects resident in Morocco have
been expelled by the French author
tiles as it is alleged they have ex-
tended their intrigues with the ma
tives since the beginning of the war.
"The transportation of troops and
provisions in France prevents for
the moment the resumption of nor
NAL traffic on the railroads, but lat
er on it will be possible to increase
the number of trains.
"The German troops while evacu-
ating a number of villages in south
srn Alsace committed many acts of
brutality. Our troops found many
houses burned and corpses riddled
with bullets in the streets, notably
1t Dannemarie near Altkirch in
southern Alsace."'
A dispatch from Rome received by
he Havas agency yesterday says
hat the Tribuna asserts it has