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Show LATE NEWS. Positions Retaken by the French Around Paris. Armament of the Paris Fort. Female Military Organizations Organiza-tions Suppressed. Formal Surpension of tue Ecumenical Council. General jYewa. FOllEKiN. Tours, Oct. 21. Official advices from Paris to the 18th show the resolution reso-lution of the defenders of the capital is unshaken. Work on the fortifications on all sides of the city is completed. The French have retaken positions at Yitry, Yillc Juif, Chatillon, Issy, Sureties. Sur-eties. Puteaux, ( 'ourbevoie, Asmieres, Pierrefittp, St. Aines, Lc Couer, Neuve-foutainy and Nogent-Jour-marne; and hold also the islaud of Genevilliers. The forts me aimed with 2,1-pi gun manned by f .'io,00o men. In the magazines mag-azines are three million kilogrammes of powder, and each gun has a supply 000 balls. The manufacture of rifled cannon, metrailieurs, chassepots, cartridges cart-ridges and other munitions continues with great activity, and the SHpply of provisions is ample. The authorities of Paris have suppressed sup-pressed the female military organizations organiza-tions which were forming. The inhabit ints of Chateau-neuf, who asked the Prussian general for a delay in the payment of the large sum levied on the place, were assured that the General had no knowledge of such requisitions. Rome, 21. The Pope has formally suspended the session of the Ecumenical Ecumen-ical Council on the ground that there has been a sacrilegious iuvasiou of the territory of the church, which might prevent freedom of action of the Pope and Fathers. The jubilee iu honor of the Council, however, is not suspended. London, 21. The steamer Enterprise Enter-prise from Gaeston to Londonderry picked up a boat oil' Owenhead, at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, containing a sailor and the corpse of a woman. The sailor siaied that the steamer Cambria, of the Anchor line, from New York, struck at ten o'clock the previous morning, and became a total wreck. lour other boats, containing passengers, left the steamer, but are not yet heard fiom. The sailor reports that his own boat upset and all in it but himself were drowned. A violent storm passed over the beat of war around Paris last night. The department of Somme has been declared in a state of scige, and encr getic preparations are made at Amiens, the capital, for d.-fen-e. A force of twenty thousand Prussians, which was advancing on the city, has returned to Bretnuil. |
