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Show "latest news BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. I DtSPEHATE SLAUGHTER AUOl.M) PARIS. Famine Again Threatening the City. The Germans Picpaiiii to Inter fire. Asnieres Surrounded by McMahon. PAUIS G I VEN TWENTY-FOUR TWENTY-FOUR HOUR TO SURRENDER. The Communists' Lines Filled with Dead. Victory Claimed by the Commune. Congressional Intelligence Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Reasons Mhy the Amnesty Bill should pass now. FOREIGN. Paris, Sunday evening, 16, fi'it London, Lon-don, 17, 3:30 a.m. General Cluseret, in his nfficial report to the ComtLUne, says Fort Vanvres tvas attacked five times in succession on Saturday. Cannon Can-non and mu-ketry firing continued all day. To-day an obstinate struggle is ?oing on at Neuilly, where the ground is disputed inch by inch. The detachment detach-ment of government troops on the is-!and is-!and of Grande Jatte has escaped. The Versailles army has been concentrating for the last four d-tys, and a general ana lornidabie attack is momentarily expected. The Germans at Creteil have been reinforced with 18,000 men and are preparing to interfere. The Commune is resolved to continue the defence to the last. The sale of horse flesh has again commenced, and there are other signs of scarcity of food in the city. London, 17. Tbe Times' special says the Versaillists use the Prussian trenches at Meudon. Sixteen guns are pointed at Issy and Vanvres. McMahon Mc-Mahon has succeeded in surrounding Asnieres. The cannonadine of Issy was continued on Sunday. The Prussian Prus-sian are masking large reinforcements in the vicinity of Paris. The elections of the Commune attracted little attention, atten-tion, many abstaining from voting. There were demonstrations in Hyde Park yesterday in favor of the insurgents. insur-gents. The Paris special of the Daily jYttoj -ays the Germans occupy St. Eouen. It is believed Bianque directs the Com-uiiina. Com-uiiina. - - Tbe Versaillists have given Paris twenty-four hours to surrender. Washburne's family has left Paris. Thiers in a circular of the ICth, in the evening, says the insurgents are emptying houses and selling the furniture. furni-ture. The government continues to temporize to collect irresistible forces, and also to allow the Parisians time to reflect. The insurgents say they will shoot prisoners who intend to overthrow the republic and suppress the nationals. 'Ihe Independence Beige correspondence correspond-ence says tbe end approaches. The Asnieres affair was disastrous to the Communists. Their lines are filled with dead. The Versaillists are a kilometre kilo-metre from Times. At Marseilles the trials are proceeding. proceed-ing. Uremieux's wife petitions Thiers for her husband's pardon. Eio Janeiro, March 25 th. The Emperor Em-peror and Empress of Brazil eo to ! Europe in May. In Entre Ios the revolution has terminated. ! London. 17. The Times in a leader says the Alabama case has always created cre-ated insecurity and demoralized American Ameri-can politics and it will hail a possible settlement with genuine satisfaction. It thinks arbitration will acquit England, Eng-land, as the Alabama was partially fitted out in the Azores, hence Portugal is liable. Melbourne, March 27. The colonies colo-nies are fortifying, the home government govern-ment having warned them that American Ameri-can filibusters are threatening. Paris, 17. The night was quiet, there was close fighting yesterday at Nevilly, in which the Communists were successful and captured some colors. The spirit of the troops is good. The Commune decrees methodical requisitions, requi-sitions, street by streot; it also convoked con-voked the industrial chambers to draft statistics of abandoned workshops, and arrange for their reopening by workmen, work-men, not by the proprietors. London, 17. A special to the Times from Versailles, repeats the news that the Prussian trench in the terrace at Meudon is now occupied by government govern-ment troops and 16 guns are pointing towards Issy and Vanvres. New York, 17. The Tribune's Paris special of Sunday says the firing was incessant during the past forty-eight forty-eight hours. Tne government at Ver-i Ver-i sailles says Paris is completely invested, invest-ed, and that a summons to surrender in twenty-four hours will be sent There is great excitement in the city, and the Cominutte ;as suddenly allowed al-lowed free circulation in the streets and at the railway stations without passes. Most of the city gates are opened. Tbe military reports are highly colored. General Cluseret says: "The, attack was extremely vigorous last night, principally against Vanvres, which was obliged to sustain five consecutive assaults. as-saults. An ambulance was seen carrying carry-ing off the dead and wounded of the assailants. The 86th battalion merits mention for its admirable eonduet at j Neuilly. The combat continues foot by foot, each house having a bs besieged be-sieged and (hs iroops have been ordered or-dered to storm them. The Vers."e Government talk, of reducing Paris witfliD J ours; let powder carry the answer." Gen. Endes, commanding the southern south-ern forts, says: "All seems finished. jThe night has been terrible, and the I battle was incessant from 6 o'clock in the evening. Vanvres bore the most violent assault. The royalists' loss is enormous. They were repulsed along the whole line, giving a complete vic tory to flio Communo. Our troop-fought troop-fought like lions, especially Lcdrux, governor of Vanvn-H. Tho mm ofliuiiil jnunmls Huy 1,00(J Moltliers wcio killed bd'oro Vanvres and wivcrul hundred taken prisoners. Ai .N'uuilly (hero was no loss among the Parisians, except Doinbrowski who it sliflitly wounded. The fresh Communal elections are being held, but they excito little interest. inter-est. A decreo of tho Commune places all tho railways under iUt conlrol, and obliges them to produce all their books and documents, if required, for inspeo tion. Another correspondent telcgrtiphs from Paris, yesterday afternoon: "Yesterday "Yes-terday morning attacks were made on I'orto Dauphitio, which continued all day. Tho Qtiartier do Champs Ely-hoch Ely-hoch has been exceedingly damaged by the shells, which are still falling thickly. thick-ly. The building occupied by the American Am-erican legation was struck by fragments of shell on Saturday, nevertheless Washburno continues to reside in tbe Avcnuo Josephine. Barricades have been ordered to be erected immediately in the quarters of the Tuilleries and Belleville, which will render Paris im-pregnablo im-pregnablo to the assaults of tho Versaillists. Ver-saillists. " The samo correspondent telegraphed late last night that there bad been firing in various dircctioss all day. Ho saw a shell strike tho Arc do Triomphe, to which much dumage has been done. It has been strnek Cv thirty shells) in all. Tho Champs is full of people, and carriages and omni-busses omni-busses get nearly up to the arch. Stalls are open, and Punch and Judy shows are exhibited. Crowds are moving to and from in holiday attire. Groups gathered together pay little attention to the bombs. No interest whatever is manifested in tho elections. The family of Minister Washburnc has left Paris. It is anticipated all the rail j way lines will be cut to-morrow, and a j state of siego be declared. There are! only provisions enouith in Paris to last I three weeks. I Another correspondent telegraphs ! that he saw fighting which was f urious and only four thousand yards from i Paris. Uo was subsequetly arrested as a royalist. It is reckoned thatduringl the last two days the Versaillists have I lost 1,000 killed and 1,500 wounded; ' during the last two days all persons have been allowed to leave tbe city! wmiuut permit, except men Detween the ages of 19 and 4o. Provisions are rising in price. All the gates except those opposite the enemy, are open all day. Chandrey, editor of the Siccle, has been arrested, charge unknown, and not even his wife is permitted to see him. There has been a great out-cry at the number of arrests, and no more will take place without being reported to the Commune. |