The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-13 00:00:00

ITEMS OF THE WAR.

In conseqnerne of the war forty Prussian timber ships are
detained at the port of lt,ga.
In the battle of FroschwiFer the chief of Nlerahal
NPSiahon'a staff. General Colson, was killed at the marshal's
side General Rsoult Is missing.

A second French fleet, rout isting of nine iron-clads, passed
Dover for the Baltic on Tue day, with • large number of
troops on board from Brest and Cherbourg.
It is reported, ea]s a contemporary, that the Duo d'Aumale
has, in otedience to the SAUIb patriotic impulse which has
actuated General Changarbier, offvred his sword to the Im-
perial Government, aid expressed his willingness to serve
in whatever capacity his services may be acceptable.
Five onnibusts from the Eutern Railway of France full of
wounded soldiers front Wissembourg arrived at Vet Hospital
of Val-de Grace, Paris, on Sunday night. Fifty Prussian
soldiers, also wounded, arrived lathe same train, but have
been quartered tisewhere.

The author of the false news circulated at the Bonne on
Saturday tea y ming man named Jmot. In order to give the
dlapat h which he was handing about a stamp of authenticity
he had Bucceeded In purloining front a telegraph crlice a
printed form, on which he forged the statement.
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'• I went Into the hospital (Saarbruck) and saw the Ftench
and Prussians who had been wounded on luesday last, and I
can safely say thtt the fearful nature of a wound stated to
he caused by a Chaeset A', bullet is a mere fallacy; it certainly
Inflicts a much smaller and less previous wound than the
Entleld."—correspondent of Dada Telegraph.
General Frosaard and his staff ran a narrow escape of
being captured the other evening. They were riding throngh
St Johann about ten o'clock, and had jut got actual the
bridge within the line of their own mattes, when a strong
botiy of IN utislan Lancers trottcd through the street.
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"The baptism of lire' which the Emperor of the French
deelred for tde eon has TIOW Iden administered In a fashion
that sent a thrill of excitement through Europe. France his
lost two battlen, and Paris le in a state of elege."—Duity
Telegraph..

A I pedal telegram from a Berlin correspondent announces
that lianihurg, Dresden, and Ilreslan were illuminated on
receiving news of the German victories. Berlin did not
illundnate, bat displayed flogs. The French prisot.era who
had reached the Prussian capital had been well received by
the people
A Frebch paper rives statistics of the troops of the African
army which have c nue to Europe to take part in the war.
They are said to comprise 7,500 %alums, 4,600 Turco., 9,000
Cnasseurs d'Af dune, and aome spahls-4a all, from 20,0,..0 to
25,000 bayonets and sabres.

According to the Prnesian dacha statement the French
losses at Woerth were 5.000 men horg he combat and 0,000
pritonera On the same authority we learn that the German
losses amounted to beta een 3,000 aml, 4,000 men hors if
combat. The French stragglers who threw away their mills
and were overtaken by the German cavalry numbered several
thounands.

The Impartial du Rhin gives the f ollowing particulars In
' regard to he battle of NV tssenibourg " The battalion of
•Turcos suffered the most, along with the 50th of the line.
The fight began at the very same spot where lloche offered
battle to the Austrians in 1793. At first the firing was at '2OO
metre.; afterwards at 50 paces. The enemy's front spread
itself over a length of three kilometre,; as to its depth It
was enormous"

"Nothing can be more ridiculous than the perpetual cry
for ' more men' to fight. The Emperor had plenty of men
when he lost the last three battles, but he did not know how
to handle them. The despid che. complaining that in every
case the Prussian. where so milmoilsome as to overwhelm
the French by superior numbers are supremely ludicrous.
What I. the great art of war but the skill tri bring a tune. for
force against a weak point of the enemy ?"—Correspondent
of Daily Aries.
ft is announced that the ladles of the Orleans family have
tient, through blesses. itothechild, 90,0001, to the fund for the
relief of the wounded. The Counteu of Paris and Duchess
de Chartres send each 10,000 f , the Princess de Joinville
20,005 f , and the Duke d'Aumale contributes 60,000 f. in
memory of nis deceased wife, who would have been the
first, he says In hid brief but affecting letter, to have come
to the aid of the wounded soldiers and of the war stricken
families of France.
The mission of Due de Cadore to the Courts of Copenhagen
and Itockholin has thoroughly failed It 11 certain that all
the European Pow, ra will remain neutral during the Franco-
German war. The Russian Government informed the French
Cabinet that a command in the Baltic, given to Prince
Napoleon, would be considered as fen act of hostility against
Russia, on account of the well-known sympathies of hie Royal
Highness for Poland.
Figaro says there Is no certain account of the losses at
the battle of Wissembourg. The Franorra reckons them at
1,810 dead, wounded, or prisoners ; elsewhere they are
reckoned at 2.000 men. Six or seven thounand Pi lonians tire
supposed to have fallen. M. Jeannereal, whose opinions, an
old e three Is valued, says As to losses, I know nothing
All! can say is that the traces of these were made Ii din.
a pear very quiclr'y, or that they were rl abler than was
supposed The mitrallieurs are certainly f urmidable engin ea
but they had not a good field of operation.
It is said that the lielaisu Government has In its harels the
no At c.ear evidence that members of the Workmen's toter.
national Society have tried to corrupt the soldiers at the
camp of Bever]," The Government intend proposing to the
Parliament tho mobilisation of the tint ban of the Garde
Ctvique. The telegram giving the substance of the speech
Lord Granville pronounce lin the House of I,,rds Is read
everywhere with the utmost enthusium. However, the
people sympath.se with Trance in her defeat.
"There is a rumour here, which has even found its way
into the papers, and which I must not withhold front you.
Count Bismarck, before leaving, was asked on various sides
by it (Menthe' politicians and friends rf hi. If he did not
thlok Gist, in cue of the war being successful, the abdication
of Louis Napoleon ought to he initiated upon before all other
things, to which he Is said to have replied, 'No. Germany
can only fight for German object. and not for French
objects.' What thi, could mean GU only be guseeed."—Cor .
respoudeni ot Daily NOWA,

!euustur.

field of bettle el long r7,-; p-o-seihie Oh WI
Ii war !"—Netorpaper Cot. resposadent.

torriblo thiEg

Notre-Dame-des-Vlctoires 'has been crammed each day
with sad mothers and sisters praying for their sons and bro-
thers gone to the war.

A second latch of Germans, consisting of shoemakers,
cigamsners, du, left Leicester on Tuesday morning for the
seat of wax.

King George of Hanover does not relent in his opposition to
this Government Ile has thought the present an appropriate
moment to accredit Count Breda, a Frenchman by birth, as
his Envoy to the Court of the Tuileries. To advise the new
Minister on military matters, Mejer von Adelebsen, late of
the Hanover army, has been attached to him.
We are glad, at a moment like the present, to notice
that Berlhr is receiving the captives of the war with respect
and honourable silence. Such conduct is generous and Ger-
man. Everybody should strive to keep the confliat from
becoming an international war; for France and Prussia will
endure when Emperors and Kings are passed."—Daily Tele-
graph. _
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The Rev. Francis P. Fleming, the British chaplain at Heitiie
Darmstadt, has given up his home as a hospital for the sick
and wounded. He resided in It himself as superintendent,
and had a housekeeper and cook to do the work. Three es-
ters of charity also slept in the house, and were preparing
beds, ,kc , for 40 wounded men. lie asks far money and help
from England. Old and new linen, calico, tl4nnel, lint,
anlrts, and blankets they are in great need of, but, above all,
money.

" A short paragraph in the papers corrot orates the belief
that minor German princes are often very silly persona.
Without previous announcement the Duke of Brunswick re-
turned to the castle of hie fathers. His falthiul subjects did
not learn that their ruler was again hi their midst until they
reads notice to the effect that smoking was strictly forbidden,
not merely within the Cutlet grounds, but In the vicinity of
the Castle. These unhappy sui jects would patiently endure
many things at the Duke's hands, but when he attempts to
put out :heir pipes, he makes them desperate."—Correapon-
deut of Daily Neu,
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Thereto something very remarkable by way of contrast to
the French in the speed with welch the Pi lindens wish all
the war news to be at once communicated to the whole
country before any vague rumours have had time to alarm
or to elate people. As If they had not enough to do, the
chief Nortil-German telegraph stations have been ordered to
print all the telegrams from the seat of war the Instant they
reach them, to MILE copiee to the walls and all prominent
buildings of their respective town. and surrounding places,
and to send them snout by post where necessary. About a
hundred of these principal stations are eapecially mentioned
—all furtressea and other garrison places.