Show TO tuk tur dederer kemsf KEW Sf r yli vil ra i W N UNION telegraph line dine i ae A special to the Herald dated carlsruh r a ildr elf eif gist says strasbourg is in flames k rhe thi the trench h a re r e fired the surround surrounding dinu ding villages the they y make frequent sorties corties sor ties which are constantly repulsed i prussians ha bave have ve arrived with a train of heavy biege siege artillery ube the city isaur rounded ded by thirty thousand menu odar oder thep liet ien jen welder wrider islip a bp inhabitants are da de moralized moralizer zed and disorder dih die order everywhere prevails the surrender of the city 1 is 8 hourly expected the tha crown prince lias ilse ron lon n another ylo tio yie fory in ft a great batile before chalons the nans dans are victorious everywhere and the french defeat complete oar special correspondent at chalias on Thurs thursday dayi 18 writes the emperor has arrived here bore and canrobert roberi robert are also here in xii the affair at ddn sunday the emperor narrowly escaped being killed oc or captured it etwas was vas merely a re on the conducted with I 1 incredible nr C edible daring they pushed up to tho the imperial lead head quarters and sud their presence was wms first nonn announced noan ced by can non pra Pru bruss brues Esiau lan ian bullets were M whist malat aist the end of ea es egr cart 4 before they c could get on an horsa b backhand backi ack and and ond nothing bat tho the IL tat tate taie P yesterday there wuk a panic in lee tee damp camp distan tans cannonading canno cantio was heard jn in the lle the garde mobile who imperfectly organized and nol nob hair half with lafferior inferior weapons wen pons began demanding I 1 to tp be jed led back hack to earb paris finally aven even M tha 9 acers joined intile la the request and presently ast ass officer camo came through camp announcing that their thein demand had been granted but in the meantime t they ey are consigned to barracks other t troops all the may way frow from chalons to tho oho town of the in ja hahl habl tanU of netz len teu are already on shorb short ration of bread meat is plentiful the cattler from the whole country round being driven inside the worlds london special of the says the tho battle 0 Be sonville was mrss without any declaive decisive jesuit result it was claimed by the prussians but buat the french fell back aix good order orden without pursuit to J metz ketz their ammunition having given out the losses of the F fruh frus rus ruh suns greatly exceeded that of the french the former alone losing forty thousand on thursday Stien metz oetz whole corps was cut cat to pieces hib his hla magnificent ent cavalry no ao longer existing some say tha crown cnown prince is march marchl ing dog on that he has halted at bar ie le duo duc is at chalons paris is defiant and the people are aze enU enlisting sting hy by thousands it is reported that the italian g government overn ment meni has his offered frande france troops tt herve serve in algeria uhe the saint Alsa aisa tain tsin pessi peasantry guerilla warfare in the prussian rear kingland england andi andl russia are washing for am AIX opportunity to interfered interfere i rossia russia will wiil mot hot permit territorial rit orial aggrandizement on elther either part nev mev NEW YOEH 22 T Gal gai liardet in Ws hia dispatch to the Cd courier urier des dej unos unis says ut U t is with rauch much difficulty I 1 can obtain positive information of the attra Attia situation tion near wetz metz bazaine still in insists son on the of silence this is wrong in my iny opinion for the anxiety chich which prevails in spite of the declaration of the inister minister Nl of war ivar is prejudicial to the national cause the bourgeois are timid and distrustful und think there can be no motive morive to conceal other othen thiu thin than bad news and their discon tent is fed by not receiving the dispatches which reach us from brussels andl jondon I 1 have hate nay myself seif self seea seen ee en the latest dispatches from nazaine bazaine he ue de clares clarea that he is to the victor and that his bis strasbourg movement has been accomplished shed with success but bat is attended with a serious loss shy chy why not give publicity to this dispatch and reassure the disquieted spirit of the people sorely the tho enemy could not gain from them any useful information to sum suni up I 1 believe the incessant combats of the last seven days have been favorable to us but bat they have not brought about the desired result one fact is certain the army of the prince royal of prussia continues it ita its march on paris yesterday it was at le francoise and if it we may believe the reports which have reached the corps Legis latif it has his the appearance of moving to turn the oam cam camp at A chalons and fall upon the capia capital the emperor and mcmahon 1101 shon ahon are at chalons Cn alons they have too great a it revenge to take to permit pernile any movement not likely to be successful the arli armi armament nent of the national guard is complete yes yea berday mone more tha than guns were distributed tri trl buted d and meeran maeran declared to the chambers that la in a few days a hundred thousand national guards would be under armb arma grain arrives in great quantities the city ia Is provisioned for more tuan than eight months all this certainly indicates that if we are threatened with a haige belge we are prepared to sustain mait wait it the people of paris are in irr excellent spirits and fall of patriotism they will rise in thib thia crisis to the hight night of the situation A special correspondent gives the details of the atrocious chinese massato massacre e of the freach preach and russians at Ti entel entil ohina china it ap appears ears that the responsibility of the horrible butchery rests entirely with the chinese authorities that the mob wab waa not incited by the chinese government commit n bialt the atrocities their thair ignorance and superstition were worked on oa by the most remarkable fensand men means sand and ahil abil an official public publication ulon taught them to believe that tar lar foreigners eigners were in Tient zin to kidnap women and children ind and ta to kill them A mob held possession boos tos session of the Fie hie french beli ting all ali foreigners mhd were abroad for days before any auk blood vas was shed abed and the government not mot only did riot not etrain restrain re or dis disperse erse it b but bui tit even permitted the soldiers to encourage it lt and it was vas nob not till the riot was waa three thid daya flays old that the freach french consul was waa kaied in the government palice palace and the wholesale slaughter began A number berof benor of amera atari cans and english are missing and their absence can only be accounted for by tiie the belief t that list they sn cerea the same fate as the others and that their bodies floated away in the river riven it ia le reported that over oyer chinese proselytes prose lytes of the priests were massacred it was charged that a mandarin of the government stood by and bave saw the ral raw massacre sacre without trying tryla g to prevent it tt also thab that J A T mead mend meadows ws american consul at Tient zin was in company with Chung fow eai EAT ail all the time and aad did not try to ta prevent the oh outrage an and d although he is not hot an dri officer of the chinese rover gover government limen t he had enough rower tower and influence to 16 prevent it the emperor of china has appointed Chung fow special minister to paris to satisfy the trench french emperor Emper orIn in reference to this outrage and has appointed meadows as secretary and interpreter to accompany chung Chang fow tow this tile the shang Bhang nae aae papers denounce as a gross in E suit silt bult buit uit and aad they call on an the french and rus russian kan lan governments to resent it the outrages to which the females were subjected before they were murdered are too sickening to relate every eveny cruelty says the correspondent which it was possible for the most moat savage barbarians to conceive of were perpetrate perpetrated kl on these defenseless Christ christian san lan ladles ladies A native christian attempted to guard the door and was wash torn limb from limb nine sisters were collected in a school room beaten with stick sticky fi their thein clothes torn froni from their bodies aud and an d placed on oa their heads and they ther were werd cut with knives knies in the most savage manner and outraged their heads lips and noses were ware cut ot off their eyes scooped from their sockets their breasts cut off and their abdomens rip ripped ted open with large cleavers their kni eed s were broken and in ten minutes nought remained but their disfigured bodies when there was no more to do fire wms vaa applied and the buildings burned girty sixty or seventy children who had sought refuge from the mob in the dellar cellar were burned fo 10 death the french cathedral consulate hospital and the buildings bult bull dings dinga of all forel foreigners in ers were sacked and ani burned T the shanghee Shang hae nc the only american journal a J A L Meadows the american consul was the only one arlio who seemed to view the whole affair with uncertainty he re was evide evidently under the tha protection of hla hia friend and employer Chung fow he did not turn turu out with the volunteers and tather rather sneered at the tle endeavors their property T this fellow meadows is a an ai Is consul for the United states hollanders and danes dand without a salary from either but he holds bolds a sinecure position from Chung fow the foreign ministers lt ilsters and delegations are ard muce much exercised over the fact that he has been delegated to accompany Chong fow to paris but the abe emperor will not allow any of them to leave pekin for the Inter interior lor at present and they complain that they archut in as prisoners but the emperor says saya it is merely a precaution till the excitement is over I 1 new yoeu yoek the prussians have issued a proclamation that all per persons solis not soldiers of the french army larmy found in lit arms against prussia shall be tried by a military court and on conviction hall illbeg besnot bot hot c li i K 1 I the cable special dated don london says the crown prince Is believed to be marchin marching on parisi paris direct and it is reported that mcmahon and canrobert are moving upon the road taken by him hia hla army la Is estimated at the french marshals are supposed to have an equal number of troops of the line but it is believed that only great good fortune can stop his advance much short of paris cheeng the english government is in constant communication muni cation with the great powers on the demands made by prussia for the cession of alsace and dorraine lorrainee A cabinet cabin minister said j today to day dalr those demands w ands mean a european war as neither england or russia dare for a moment accede edd to them italy 0 is putting her army ons on ona a war tooting looting A special envoy ia Is erbec ed at once odee in london business Is at tit a standstill in germany the terrible losses of the army sl alarming aiming the people A special especial paris dispatch h io 16 the new york times dated today to day says the pretended victory of the prussians Pru sAlans at thi chi thionville onville on the ahas finds little credence haio here notwithstanding the dispatch of king william it Is believed that all is going well with the french army I 1 have from unquestionably tion ably good authority the following information the series of battles which concluded on thursday only resulted in giving the prussians Pruss ihns ihus command of the roada roads to verdun which diverge at gravel Grav ellotte I 1 0 tte communication by worth with thionville still Vill remains open on friday ant aft afternoon ernson and early on saturday morning the main body of badaines Ba zaineb command sudee succeeded eded in effecting a withdrawal from metz by the gathof thionville between fort SL quentin and the Moni theis and antt guletz highway which follows the left bank of the lio AIo selle selie and due north till within five miles of thionville when it strikes off westerly bearing towards forguson For gulon guion and Lon tillay on the belgian frontier nhe the great railway following this lin line e a and nd connecting thi thionville onville with the fortress of sedan and me meders sene sere from which latter point it proceeds due south tp 0 o rheims was still intact by latest acco accounts unta baz Daz bazaine alne aine was reported at lat near mont Mout town on the river Ohe ersa erba tributary of the metz about twenty five miles north of verdun and nifty fifty miles norsh east of metz it was presumed that his intention was to cross ariouns to bounces Rou Bous sees ces and then strike down the valley of absence to bt st Men hould where he will be half way between verdun and chalons when a junction could readily be effected with mcmahon private cable dispatches dated london 12 in say special paris telegrams E rams say flay the armies of king william and steinmetz are reported too to severely crippled to assume the offensive and it is given out on high authority that bazaine was reinforced from chalons on sunday for the purpose of giving battle to the enemy near metz he is confident of victory he will then march on the army of the crown prince and rescue paris A report has reached london of another french victory another special dispatch from paris says bazaine was yesterday at metz he had the north and centre entirely open to him either to retreat or to receive reinforcements the appalling Pius plus prussian sian losses have sent a thrill of horror throughout germany recruits are only to be had froni among the country people and workmen nearly all of whom are raw bazaine professes to tb be master of the situation NEW YORK 23 A special to the courier des dea beats unis dated parish says preparations for a combat are being made all along the line and paris Is ls virtually in a state of siege everyone accepts this part of the situation and the general feeling is that the issue af the campaign will be decided under our out walls if it we are able to hold bold out for a week against an enemy destitute 0 of bf the me material for carrying on a siege biege all france will come to the succor of the capital As for a division in favor of t the h e besiegers among the Fau hau bourge t they ak need heed not count upon it for at this t time dinelt it would be difficult to restrain the summary vengeance of the people on any individual convicted of treason I 1 visited this morning the line of the fortifications between Neull Neu illey ley and auteuil dauteuil Aut euil eull an army of workmen aided by the gardes mobile and men of the military classes were at work cutting down the trees of the bois de do bologne bologn as far as the lakes the bastions are supplied with mortars and batteries of canaba of very large ball bali calibre bird are mounted on the ramparts across the roads drawbridges have been thrown on the side of the city toward boirard and auteuil dauteuil a large number of hous houses ei have been demolished in short this par part farb 0 of f paris once so beautiful Is entirely unrecognizable on the vincennes side I 1 am told that the work of defense la Is being pushed with still greater energy an entrenched camp has been established on the plain of st maur which commands the tab passage of all the surrounding localities the inhabitants have abandoned their houses and taken refuge in paris the really effective force of the troops to whom our defense is committed 19 18 is 19 estimated upon authentic data in the neighborhood of soldiers of the regular army of the municipal guards and gendarmes gen darmes sailors and and aud ma 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