| Show f from thoy they itne line of J PROGRESS DANO GERMAN GERNIAN IVAR WAR SUMMARY OF THE LATENT TACE ACCOUNTS BY OVERLAND MAIL the campaign camp agn in Sch schleswig leswig bab baa been brief and decisive the great national rampart the dannevirke Danne virke from aich the danes had bad hoped so much has baa been to them cf ef no ava 1 i it has hardly arrested the victorious march 0 of i the two grman girman powers for a single day when ic it was ascertained that the prussians i were able to force a passage over the schley j the danish commander in chief chiet regarded a j further defense of bib bis pognon lon ion at bustorf and aschle wig impossible these towns and the Danne were therefore evacuated on the glo clo of february in such haste baste that 60 pieces of artillery had bad to be left behind the retreat of the danes from schleswig Sch leswig to flensburg Fiens flens bure burg was gradually converted into 11 a ali flight 9 11 fians closely pursued by the Austi ians lans and Z prussians 1 U they repeatedly made a stand and fought their pursuers but in all these pen len engagements gage ments especially in those at idstedt edstedt a few miles northwest of schleswig Sch leswig and arid oversee on the road from schleswig Sch leswig to flensburg Fiens flens burg a few miles south of the latter city they were totally defeated they the y did not make a as many had bad expect expected etl eil at flensburg fie but being thoroughly dl solved I 1 they tried to make their escapes escape partly northward into jutland partly eastward to the island of asen alsen opi op i cosite alsen lies the town of duppe duppel where I 1 the danes have strong fortifications this pace plate the advance ot of the tha prussians siana aiana had reached and attacked and anil according to one recount with success this still needs corar mation but certain it is that the whole lueby luchy dichy D ichy of 0 schleswig Sch leswig was at the last accounts virtu ally in the hands bands of the two avro powers the people of copenhagen were thrown by the ut unfortunate fortunate issue of the war into he the greatest excitement and consternation there wab waa a general not only with the general in chief chier but with the hing king h ing the I 1 former was at once recalled but this did not seem to appease the popular anger there were riots in copenhagen and according ta t one account attempts were even made to ofer over overthrow the authority of the km kinz and annex denmark to sweden both houses honses of the Rigs raad passed reso rebo ut ons oas in fa or of a vigorous prosecution of the war it ia is now fully certain that if austria and prussia should still be willing to effect a any y kind of compromise by virtue of which the king of denmark would remain duke of schleswig Sch leswig and holstein ll no power of 0 europe will interfere in favor of the danes but on his ibis po nt the two german poeira begin to express themselves thera thern selves with great equivocation semiofficial Sem semi lofficial official papers oe of both governments take uke the ground that the outbreak cf the war has annulled the treaties it is even reported that the austrian cabinet on february 7 h formally resolved to recede from the treaty f 1862 this has been substantially contradicted but ibe the lie impression impre sion has bein generally created throughout europe hat bat the two al at led governments eram ern ments have bave really taken the tha expediency of 0 I 1 such a course into serious consideration the towns f wig awig which are within thel ther I 1 ines n e a of the allied troops have generally proclaimed the prince 0 of Augusten bure their duke I 1 and it has baa naturally created surprise that the corn corr ow manders of the austrian and arid prussian armies have i rot ot only not done anything to 1 these demonstrations but have not even prevented their soldiers eol diers from taking part in them the decision of the austrian and prussian go ern ments on this quest question ioa loa is awaited with great impatience th they ey find the themselves melves in a i ery embarrassing dilemma it they support the people of the duchies in their claim for in the possibility of a european war again draws near if th y refuse to bup eup p rt these claims they make all the minor governments of germany and the immense I 1 majority if cf the german people their mortal enemies in either case the decision will produce a sensation in europe which as we are assured from nearly every european country continues to watch the development of the dan dar danish ash war with abating interest |
