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Show PARIS A.VO HOME. "Paris is completely invested" is the news this morning. But little information infor-mation may be expected now as to wliat occurs within the beleaguered city until un-til tome decisive blow is Ktruck, although al-though nearly the last telegram received receiv-ed htates that communication between London arid Paris bad reopened. Two hundred thou-and Germans are said to be on the south and cast of !'ari, with more concentrating on the city. Iri-ide there on; declared to be jv:r 100,000 armed men. These should make k me desp' iate and bloody fighting. Paris is sur-hu-rouridel by a perfect cordon of forts which have to bo reduced bclon: the ramparts are r'-ached. In front of'lhcm arid around h';iu the l'ru .liaris will have hot work; and in the mean time we may look for a fCNeral battle in a very hhort lime, for Tro';hu will not rdain the vast jimyiii Pat in merely to mount guard and furnish review. The Italians have posses 'ion of ii-.tn". At, hi t me realized the a ji -ration-. il' Piedmont and Sardinia, and of all who 'ii:;-!it. an Paly with the ''miiii r mi t j i,' the woild at id i a j 'iiil. nd v.itli hew little trouble I it was gained ! A few skirmishes with j the foreign legionaries of the Pope, and they dropped their guns, while the citizens of Rome opened their arms to the Italian forces. And so ends, for the present, the secular sovereignty sov-ereignty of the Pope. But they who think his power has thus ended pay little attention to the lessons of history. |