The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-02-04 00:00:00

M. GAMBETTA AND THE ARMISTWE.

The following is the text of M. Gambetta's pro-
clamation to the Prefects :

BORDEAUX, Jar. 31, 1.2 65 a In.

Since the despatch which was sent to you yeeterday
afternoon, and In which prompt and full information was
desired from Versailles as to the nature, extent, and bearing
of the arrangements concluded, no official Intelligence has
been received. Nothing mere Is known than was known
this morning. However, information from abroad leads
us to believe that nothing has been settled at
Versailles upon the question of peace. The oc-
cupation of the Paris hats seems to Indicate that the
capital has been surrendered in the character of a fortified
town. The army and the Garde M 'bile are to lay down their
arms The Sedentary National Guard are to retain theirs,.
The Convention which has been entered into relates exclu-
sively to the armistice, which appears to have for its espe-
cial object the formation and convocation of an Mien,
bly. The policy maintained and carried out by the
Minister of War is still the same. War a outran,.
resistance even An complete exhaustion. Exert then
all your energies to maintain the moral spirit of the
people. The period of the armistice will be well em-
ployed In reinforcing our three armies with men, am-
munition and provisions. The troops must be submitted to
a strict discipline, to enforce which you must devote all your
efforts in concert with the mllittay chiefs. They might to be
exercised daily during long hours in order to train themselves
to war. The councils of revision ought to continue and
every work of organixatlon and equipment, far from
being Interrupted, ought to be pursued with vial-
lance. It Is necessary at any cost that the armistice
afteold he useful to its, anti we can make It so In short
there is nothing until the elections, which may not, and
ought not, to Pe tunried to advantage. What France wants
Is an assembly which desires the war, and shall be deter-
mined to carry it on at any cost. The member of the
Government who is expected will, doubtless, arrive
to-morrow morning, The Ministry has tiled a delay,
which expires to morrow at three o'clock. lon will receive
tomorrow a proclamation to the citizens, with the colleC-
lion of decrees and measures which, in its opinion, should
meet the necessity of the present situation. Patience, then,
firmness, courage, union, descipline. Long live the Re-
public '

C. LA lIIER, SeCretaity CO 11. Gambetts.
" Pour Cole Conform°, Sous Prefer."

From Dlidu we learn that when the commanders of the
troops were Informed of the capitulation they were much
grieved.
It Is believed at Valenciennes that, in consequence of the
capitulation of hula. the projected inundations will not be
carried out.
It Is said that General liourhaki attempted to kill himself
after the llaatroe del oat of his attempt to relieve Bailor%
IA that his recovery is despaired of.

In Parts the whole of the Faubourg St. Germain was eve
coated by Its Inhabitants, who were billeted on houses lu the
centre of Paris.
General Werder has received as a reward for his great
aucciose• the Grand Cross of the Bed Eagle. and has been re-
commended by his Majesty for the Black Eagle.
It was on September 19th that the city of Paris was In-
vested. It was on January 20th that the capitulation was
signed. The siege has therefore lasted more than tong
months, or exactly 131 day..
French -Monarchial and Imperialist journals complain
bitterly of the expulsion of Prince In Joinville by M Gam-
betta, The Bordeaux Government recently issued orders to
arrest all leading Imperialists who might return to France.
According to advice. from Versailles, the German army of
the South overtook the retreating forces of General hour.
bdrits army on Friday last Sombacourt and Chariots were
stormed, and about 3,000 prisoners and 13 guns captured.
A very sad Impression Is Bald to have been produced In
Lyons by the news of the capitulation of Paris. the muntcl-
,,,,iny were for resistance, and had aent a deputation to

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Bordeaux.
to. al:count of the capitulation, the wounded French and
German soldiereln the ambulances and hoopitels of Saarbruck
were to be treated on Sunday night to a punch," by order
of their excellent Dr. Busch, of e.ms, who ii very popular

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with all chance.
The Cothovhe GavVe publltihes a proclamation of the
Committee of the National Liberal party, informing the
people of their Intention to send to the German assemblies
only such men as have shown themselves capable of remain-
ing true to the supporters of national unity, to the Em-
peror, and to the Empire, through the most desperate
Oratorical attacks.
itie Galeria dts Glace* at Versailles, in which King
William was declared Emperor of Germany, is now an
hospital ward filled with sounded, and I am sorry to Nay
that, in the opinion of our medical officers, they are not pro-
vided with essentials. They Just Ile on mattresses as they
are brought in, and the surgeons attend to them secondurn
(111•111 as lest aa possible."—Tonei Correspondent.
lhe Paris Commissioner., while at breakfast with Count
Bismarck the other day, Inquired of the Chancellor why the
Germans had not entered Puts Immediately after the affair
of september 111, called in the city the battle of Sceaux.
EsteDemi replied that, aa he had not been entrusted with
the direction of the military opt rations, he could not give
thorn any satisfactory explanalon.
A letter from a Special Correspondent with von Goehen's
Army, describing the battle of St tbientiti, strikingly illus-
trates the waatefulneu of life ant power Involved in the
system which has been pure led in France during the lest
four months he Correspondent saw a cavalry charge In
Which several squadrons of French Dragoons were literally
ridden over by Prussian Hussars. The Dragoons, men and
horses alike, were quite new. "The former were extremely
nice and clean ; their hones well brushed saddle. and
bridles apparel thy a few toys only in use; their white cloaks
as if put on for the occasion" The Correspondent saw them
rolled over in the mua, and when some of them were brought
In as tiers, he learned fr, m I heir own lips that they haa
entered the army only three weeks before, and that Pm
alma; to that time they had never been en a horais boa.