The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10 00:00:00

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A SCENE NOT TO BE DESCAIIIt

It Is believed by the Bavarians that Mae:
was wn.nnle.l very early Intheday, wh«n litre 4 T..
Inn, olfeuttve movement against. lhat-Illea. .«,
!hen took c.h.twardl of the whey army, It: •
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Wit if-...11-,.p-t;;;71-ti.cing—a--eleslei-i;ttei., show • •
authonsed to ‘,sume the omtrol of the opt ti , •
army In case of any accident to Marshal M.' :
Marshal wan wounded early In the nt.wning, .1
to rep rts of the French cflicers, prisoner. to .•
there was a difference of opinion between Gala Ita .•
General Whimptlen respecting the plan of at,,, ..e
Fr. itch a looted at one penal of the day as th 1, •t ..f
at fence. Marti' g beaten the HaValittal On. .; 1 at
cite time, the french made a rush in to .
Illy, as if deternoted to cut their we 11..

the flank of the •Sax,;:i. army, and pass I • •
But the Crown Prince of Slimly MU ;
resumed the offensive, and had brought IT • • . ,
force to block their way. They were driven
the Bavarians horn the stress to which ti,,
posed Their divi•lons advanced once.mttre

or as much as remained of it was firmly
fight ahnitlau laded much later, litre i

to Bavarian reports, that the Emperor, ii • •
only served as a private soldier, went mitt
column, compo.ed of the remnants of varioi • •
drive out the Bavarians. But the artillery . th,•
above the river anti the cross fire from the heights snore
the mad reLire too much for troops shaken by bites.
aunt fighting and frightfol losses. Shell mat shot rained
fast about the Emperor, one of the former bursting
doe to his p icon and enveloping him in its smoke. The
ofilc^rs around ehireated hint to retire, and the Bavarians
quickly following occupied Balao aid engaged the French on
the glade of the fort. I cannot nay whtilier Oils was pre-
vious to the period ref anvil to by General Whisupffen in his
address to the army. lie swaks therein if a supreme
moment when it was necessary to make a final effort and
ant their way through the 1111411119 of theeeemy at any begird.
But of ell that great host of 9•1,000 men, there were
only 2,000, he soya, left who answered to the appeal. Of
the remainder there were prdiably 20,0.0 in the hands of
the Prussians, sint 00,000 men, deducting killed end
wounded, had by this tune become an utterly disorganized
mass, without cohesion, "willing to wound, but yet afraid to
stints," and crushed out of all [semblance of military vitality
by an i'verwliehning and most murderous artillery, of which
the moral effect wan at least RA great !.. the physical. The
bitterness of recrimination between officers and inen shows
that lung I afore the !tattle a rintical ti. went of force was
wanting There wan not 00l y a deticieruy of cordial retail.e
in their hint betwoen the ofilm.r and tho soldier, but a
worm.,evil ntill—an anima apprehension on the part of the
,illtct're if thee whom they were t.• contained—a fear to en-
force the °Mowry rides ti d lest the soldier [should
become unntansgraOle altogether. scene cannot be
either Imagined or cle.crihrn vlsual, occerred when the army
or that usifforined rahble, It id been fairly thiVl,ll in by the
beaters, to i.e shot down at will. . . rie Emperor retired,
I b lieve, wittria the place, but not, surely, (or safety, hut
rather to escape from the suri,ing MOM of impotent
soldiery.