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Show Tells of Taking German Flag. Paris. An offlccr of a French rlflo regiment gives to the Petit Troyen tho following account of tho capture of tho first German flag: "Tho engagement of tho French troops with tho Ninety-ninth brigade of Germans lusted from 5:30 n. m. to 9 at night. "The artillery combat was terrible. Tho French 7G-mllllmeter gunB made havoc among tho Germnn horses nnd then reduced thu heavy German guns to silence. Tho gunners wero decimated decim-ated by tho French flro nnd they nba.e doned their pieces, which fell In'o French hands. "Tho German machlno guns from a church stcepio continued to ravage the French, but tho church finally was demolished. de-molished. "At nightfall tho French charged tho onemy's defenso work with Irresistible Irre-sistible energy and took them at tlia point of tho bnyonot. They established estab-lished themselves there for tho night. "In this action tho Fifth compuny of tho First battalion captured n German Ger-man flag, with eight guns, 90 horses nnd G37 prisoners, Including ten officers." |