The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-17
FRENCH STILL
PUSH|NCF0RWARD
General Advance is Taking
Place in AIsace.
TERRIFIC FIGHTING GGING ON
Capture Three Towns, Great Stores of
War Munitions and Take General
Won Defining a Prisoner.

Paris, Aug, 1.-THE French force:
advancing on Blamont and Grey, OF
the border of the department of Meu
selle, to the east of Luneville, were
confronted on Saturday by BavariaI
army corps which was holding the
towns. The French were entirely sue
cessful. They carried at the point o
the baynOt.
The recapture of Thann, in south
ern Alsace, only fourteen miles from
Muelhausen, is almost equally impor
tant.
The French army which is operating
from the heights of the Vosges also
continued it's advance, retaking the
town of Cham, in Alsacejpnd captur
ing General Won Deimling, command
er of the fifteenth German army
corps. General Won Deimling was in
jured in the earlier engagements al
the same town. A German standard
also fell into the hands of the French
Two French army airmen on re
conhoitering flight from Verdun, few
over the Zeppelin hangers and drop
ped two bombs on the hangers, doing
much damage. They drew the German
fire repeatedly but escaped unhurt.
A German biplane has been captur
ed by the rench at Bouillon.
Blamont and Grey, which had been
strongly fortified by the Bavarians.
were charged by the rench, who car
ried all before them. The whole Ba
varian army corps fed, abandoning
their wounded and thousands of cubic
feet of war material.
In upper Alsace the French recap
tured Thanh, taking German stand
ard. At Thanh again the fleeing Ger
mans abandoned their wounded. An
other German standard was captured
at Sainte Blaize.
French aviators appeared over Metz
and, ignoring cannonade from more
than 200 heavy guns pointed at an
angle of forty-five degrees, preceded
to the German aerostatic camp oil
Frascate, where they destroyed Yep
pelin shed. It is reported but not con
irmed that the Zeppelin airship with
in the shed also was destroyed by the
bombs but this has not been confirm
ed. The French aeroplanes then re
turned to Verdun. 3
Tha general + rsnssi dyance- -Seguf iSg
Saturday night In force all along the
line from Sarrsbourg in southern Lor
raine, to Luneville, inthe deartment Of
Meuth-et- Moselle, is being pushed Wig
orously and terrific fighting is going
on between the French and German
forces.
The French war office, which an
nounced the continuation Of the fight
ing, declare that the army Of the re
public was victorious in the first day
of the battle and is pressing its ad
vantage.
The French forces precipitated the
fight by commencing an offensive
movement all along the line of the
Lorraine and upper Alsatian frontiers
The Paris Temps, according to q
Reuted dispatch thus summarizes the
military situation:
"The German forces stretch. from
Liege to the Muelhausen district, with
marked density north. Their front
seems to follow the curse of the Or,
the river, then the frontier which Is
crossed at Longwy and Grey. A
large part of this front has been bril-
liantly carried by the French, and the
German columns are now falling back
They left behind many dead and
wounded, in addition to prisoners.
SIN upper Vosges the French
troops also continue to make prog
ress and the Germans are retreating