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Show FRENCH FORCES HAMMERING THE ALSACE FRONT BASEL, Switzerland. Dec. l. via Paris. 3:40 p. m. The French armies appear to have taken the offensive along the en-t en-t J re front from Belforr to Sainte Marie-aux Marie-aux Mines. 1-Ifavy artillery firing causes the windows to shake in houses here by nitfht a nd day. The French have con- ertcd Thann into a stronghold. f The movement reported from Basel apparently ap-parently is in the nature of a general attack at-tack by French forces in Alsace, as the front along which hostilities are said to have, been undertaken Is nmve than fifty miles long. It extends north a nd south, roughly paralleling the border of Alsace. |