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Show THE WAR German Success over the Army of the Loire. French Advantages at Paris. Parisians Wildly Enthusiastic Enthusi-astic over their Successes and Tours Depressed over faladine.' Reverses. German Los at Paris put at 1.5,000 t -0,000 men. A ditt'erent Picture by Prussian Accounts. FOREIGN. Berlin, Dec. 5. Queen Augusta has received the following dispatch from the King : Versailles, Sunday, midnigh t. After a two days' battle, in which the army of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg was mainly engaged, Montein's corps captured the St. Jean railway stations and the suburbs of Orleans. Thirty guns aud a thousand prisoners were taken. The Prussian loss is moderate. Wrangel's division suffered most. The Prussians found nine cannon and much ammunition on the field before be-fore Amiens. Signed, Wilhelm. Tours, 5. The government has received re-ceived by balloon from Paris an official report to the 4th of the progress and results of the movement made by Gen. Ducrot against the Prussian lines of investment. in-vestment. They state that Thursday was passed in burying the dead and succoring the wounded. Oil Friday morning the Prussians attacked with great force the French at Champigny and in front ofVilliers. After seven hours' firing, the enemy failed to carry the positions of the French and retreated, re-treated, leaving their dead aud wounded wound-ed on the field. Their losses were from 15,000 to 20,000. General Du-crat Du-crat greatly distinguished himself in the battle on Friday. Among the killed are General Lacharier and General Gen-eral Renault; badly wounded, General Tonnitz. The report says the troops which attacked the French were Saxons Sax-ons and Wurtembureers, Their numbers num-bers exceeded 100,000 and their losses must have been extraordinary, for the next day they were so weakened that they suffered the French to cross the river unopposed. The suceeea of the French created the wildest enthusiasm in Paris. The Tribune correspondent writes from Versailles on the 1st: The German Ger-man loss iu the sortie at St. Denis was inconsiderable. The sheila lcll at a greater range than it was believed the forts could earn', reaching beyond Montmorency. The whole range was 6,300 metres. At Epinay the French made a .taAi at three in the afternoon, and surprised the "1st battalion. Under a heavy fire from Briches, the French simultaneously simultan-eously burst out from fort St. Denis, and a gunboat coining down the stream swept the banks cle ar of German forces, and landed a force at Epinay, occupying occupy-ing the houses near the river, and west of the village. The French were in overwhelming numbers. The Germans Ger-mans fell back fighting, and evacuated the village. Reinforcements arriving near St. Graticn, the French barricaded barrica-ded Epinay. The Germans sent the whole 15th brigade and 71st and 31st regiments, six battalions in all to retake re-take the village. This force, advancing rapidly, the French were driven out in two hours. Tho Germans lost a hundred hun-dred men and thirteen officers. Another dispatch from the same correspondent, cor-respondent, dated December 3rd, afternoon, af-ternoon, says: German officials believe be-lieve the siege may still extend beyond Christmas ou military grounds; but they hope the French are discouraged by '.heir failures iu tho recent sorties, especially by the final recapture of Champigny yesterday. A correspondent at Tours telegraphs on the 5th: Intense excitement prevails here, and a great crowd has gathered at the prefecture reading tho unfavorable unfavor-able news. Gambetta, in trying to reach Orleans, was prevented by the enemy, who took possesion of the railway. rail-way. The Uhlans fired at him and his escape was miraculous, lie returned re-turned at 3 o'clock this aurniug. Pal-adines Pal-adines evacuated Orleans to avoid a bombardment, and they talking of try-in" try-in" him by court martial. London, 15, eve. Eugenie visited tho Queen at Windsor Castlu to-day. It is reported that 3X ritlcd r.tnuou aro on their way from tho United States for l'rau:e, und at last accounts tho government at Tours was anxiom-ly awaiting their arrival to complete tho equipmeut of the army of tho Loire. |