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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. SHELLING PARIS. The Government Troops Cross the Seine. Progress of. the Civil War. National (.11 aids Hiding and Srrkiiig: Multci-from Multci-from Ihc Shells. Cciici:i.l JYews. Ku Klux Spreading into Pennsylvania. Heavy Slorm in Montana. FOREIGN. London, 10, 3:30 a.m. The government govern-ment forces, at Paris, are encamped in Courbevoies and occupy the bridge Neuilly, and are barricading in t!ie village vil-lage and on, the bridge. The Communists Com-munists have reinforced the artillery at Forte Maillot and forte des Torres. Mount Yalerien and the batteries at Courbevoie maintained an incessant bombardment all day yesterday. Their shells fell beyond the Arch of'i'riumph. Tho nationals evacuated the Champs Jilysecs and occupy the adjacent streets. The efforts of the Communists to force the citizens generally to take up arms so far have failed. Jtiufore Paris, Sunday night, i!a London, 10, 4:30 a.m. It is reported that the Versailles troops have crossed the Seine at Osnieres, aud are concentrating concen-trating at Long Champs. Arbitrary arrests are increasing in number in the j city. Many more have- been thrown iuto prison. Church services are generally gen-erally suspended, and the doors of the cathedral of .Notre Dame have been closed. General Bergeret is under arrest. ar-rest. The party of conciliation are redoubling re-doubling their efforts. They had a public meeting in favor of peace, at which members of the Commune were present Additional barricades are thrown up in the quarters threatened by the besiegers. ! Tribunes cable, Paris, 'J. There has been cannonading all day. The Champs Elysees is completely deserted, desert-ed, and the national guards are hiding in cross streets, seeking protection from the shells which fall in every direction, many of them close to the American legation. The result of forty-eight hours' cannonading is, that the Versailles troops have crossed the Seine and occupy Sablonville and Long Champs. The drawbridge and the door of Porte Maillot are broken. |