| Show ON TO banis PARIS ON ox to paris is the watchword of the prussian army and in a very few days we may expect to hear that the siege biege of th the eFrench french capital hm hag commence commenced i iu in earnest this morn mornings ings dispatches dis patches say that two hundred and twenty thousand of the troops are on the march thither and that prussian scouts were within an hours journey of it this inay may be an exaggeration as the telegrams comina coming coming from various points and often based basea nop noy no doubt on rumor are by no means reliable but there is no reason to doubt that the victorious blans are marching on paris and anol that europ europe s will BOOD be absorbed in contemplating tempia tem plating ing the siege of that renowned capital it has been stated many times of late that mcmahon and bazaine had effected a junction and were purposely avoiding battle with the prussians in order to allow them to reach paris and then fall upon them with their combined forces in connection with those under trochu under the walls walla of the city there is grave reason to doubt the truth of a junction having been formed between the two main divisi of the french army and if such were the case it would speak poorly in favor of prussian strategy to suppose that the rear of their besieging army would be so poorly protected as to permit an attack by the combined forces form of Bitz bazaine alne aine and mcmahon such a contingency is most improbable under the guidance of generals so experienced and skill skillful ful fal as moltke and his colleagues the supposition expressed by some that the parisians Pari will not fight seems about as ridiculous as the above everything has been prepared in the expectation of one of the most determined sieges and condic conflicts ts on record the defenses of the city are being placed in the best beat imaginable condition an enormous stock of provisions has been laid up in the city for the support of its garrison and inhabitants the forces there collected foot up it is said to very many thousands and every precaution that military science and foresight could devise has been adopted by the authorities to resist and defeat the besiegers if after all this the most gigantic resistance si is not offered to the tho victorious egions of king william the defenders of paris would deservedly become the eughing stock of the world as pol broons and cowards instead of such a result ib it is far more reasonable to expect that sanguinary and deadly as have been til the e conflicts which have marked the campaign hitherto the one which will take place under the walls of paris in case ease a siege is inaugurated will be still more deadly and that every effort and all the energy of which the entire french nation is capable will be put forth and that the dire emergency will evoke a power equal to sub due and overcome it |
