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Show Daring Cavalry Raid. The French cavalrv executed a daring raid back of the German lines, where they blew up a railroad tunnel and escaped before their presence was discovered. dis-covered. British lancers and French troopers performed a brilliant exploit at another point. Getting between the imperial guard and their artillery ammunition train by a long, dashing ride, they cut off the supplies, destroying them, so that the guard's big guns were rendered temporarily tem-porarily useless. ' General Jean Rousseau of tho French cavalrv died today of wounds. Audacious espionage carried on by the Germans has caused the staff of the allies to deal severely with all strangers found within the lines. When two curious Irishmen, who were arrested yesterday, had proved their identity to the satisfaction satisfac-tion of the officers, they were asked to go to the headquarters building, where an automobile was drawn up. with two officers, apparentlv French, occupying the front seat. Behind them were two sup-nosed sup-nosed gendarmes with a manacled civilian between them. TJie staff officer said: "This is the reason for our seventy. These five men are German officers who were captured today near the firing line.'' |