Show A CURIOUS DOCUMENT it tells the story of a beleaguered city the museum of the berlin general gel postoffice Post lice office has received an interesting te addition to its treasures this ie is a parchment letter found in the city archives of cologne and find which bad been enclosed in a hoi hol low bullet aud fired out from the beleaguered town of neuss J to let the friendly forces of cologne know of the terrible plight to wb which ich the citizens were reduced cha charlea rles the bold of burgundy was carrying g on war against against t the town of cologne and other It henish con federated cities and bad hemmed in neusa neuss so closely that the inhabitants were brought to the last extremity tre mity an army of observation of the confederates posted beyond the rhine watched charless operations hoping to get ao an opportunity of relieving the town the letter ie is from the commander the landgrave hermann of hesse who describes how bow the be seiZed arc destitute of food and ammunition and have only stones for weapons and water to live upon they have no medicines or surgical appliance and so the sick and wo wounded die without assistance some are for surrender and ho be fears that traitors may way betray the place they had a few days before lost men in in repulsing an assault of the bur gund ians iaus the letter mentions that the had bad previously fired off several other letters some boma of which had fallen into the rhine and they were expending their last powder bowder in firing off this one kv ashington herald |