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Show Tlie Elazuiue Trial. Versailles.TS. The fi'i;d of Marshal Mar-shal Bazaine was resumed to-day. In reply to an enquiry why he did not destroy forts and war material before surrendering them to the Germans, the Marshal siud he feared the enemy would take revenge, and besides tlie laltor would have been too great. Duke d'Anmale, president of the Court, asked -what greater riLror could , the enemy have shown than that was imposed. Bazaine evading the question, ques-tion, answered thai ts:tch destruction was unexampled, and lie thought Met would revert to France. Ir reply to other questions in velaUon U the Hags, the Marshal maintained that he publicly and distinctly ordered or-dered them to be destroyed. His or ders were to have them all brough to the arsenal for immediate destruc tion. This concluded tho examiha tion of the Marshal by the president Bazaine afterwards made a state rnent complaining -of his book. 01 Metz being treated as a justificator memoir, when the truth was that i had been written from memoiy onlv without consulting documents. The governmentury commission interrogated interro-gated him as to his knowledge of his wife's whereabouts, and asked him how he knew her address, in September, Septem-ber, was at Tours. Bazaine answered that lie ascertained from a German newspaper, and subsequently from a German officer. |