The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-08 00:00:00

WANKS ON TILE BATTLE-FIELD.

"All this district is netted nv r with the graves of the
battle fought by Steinmetz on the IRh of Attgast, and
men who have falle-r in the various tempest fights. All
the way to C.oureellet it is a scene of utter barrenness
and desolation. traverud everywhere by traria if
wargulds, chequered by alandoi.ed bivonacs, the leafy
I, iwars of shich„ plastertal with mud, stand tor-
torn and unused, ell the troops being now undsr
cover except the forepoete, who mast reeemarily re-
main to the open. They never sleep, their visilence extends
right round the clock for the fitar-anditaanty hours. Very
few of We lahaliltaiii. stilt comet, in the Markt, and of
these the plight to very inner... Tao Prussians keep
them alive by serving out victuals to them, silherwLse they
would starve. Agricultural occupations stoat a standstill,
the vineyards traversed by weggou roads .d cot in two
iq entrenchments are utterly ruined. I'm houses are
wrecks, many of them whole or partially (tamed by tins
kindled by the then.. In Couch:es the only hying thing
not rrUsalan tea morgrel which stuck to his kennel whet.
his °atter ran away. The Prlitelana have christened
him "Cuero:hies." and the time-serving rogue is already
more than had Irmalan—traitor that he is 1 Wand • con.
aderabla needier of inlat'ilcams in the forepaat village of
liontoy, art old woman eat pleciilly before the dour knitting
stockings, while tho troops lined the entrenchmentjust in her
front. I supports she had got se used to shells and tu lets
that she slid not natal them, or IS might be that her
repeir hail culminated in a sort ot apathy of truant-
rutty. For tLe peer folks around here sot/lend-4
must he done by the philanthropists of the wold, eme
they will ittevitAbly starve the rut taint that the Premiens
withdraw. if they had homes, end if the Millets were not
(her weeping lams. Ire th:s year they dent mat put
a spade into the ground. Pasty field hold. the" sacred sod
precious seed" that will germinate never till the last trumpet
sounds. NJ more Christian net could be done by those who
Care not for the nationality when misery and want threaten
their ft Ilia, Coen, than (a co:innate to their tellef."—Cor-
respondent of Daily News.

THE SELF-INFLICTED MISERIES CONSEQUENT UPON WAIL

It meg be goentioned le-ther some of the self-inflicted
mlierles of the prevent war have not ta eti unnececiarf y
great (remark., the Pail Nell Go We). The devastation of
France in front of the invading army has been complete; bet,
though it has brought premature ruin upon thousands of
erenchmen, it ha retarded the advance of the Prussians and
wiP li.fluence their OtTlirlitioll tidy In the slightest degree
Nay, the suite rers themselves nec b iambic to think that
they could no: have fared Irene at the hands of their fi.es
than C,ey have done at the hands of their friend. The
difficulty involved in these prccautionary masurts was fell
by ourselves to 1803 v hen au iltVo4loll was considered
to be imminent. The Duke of litchnund, who wee at
Mal time lord lieutenant of the threatened county ef
Sussex, remonsirated with the U ivernment for adopting
what be called tie "crude tea" et compete devastation.
lc would be sailcloth lathe duke's Millen, to deatroy roads,
8114 bridges, and to remove all draught cattle, hones
and carriages, without rendermg the whole county a desert
and bringing immediate ruM on its inhabitants These re-
m advances were not without effect, though happily for
the tat u, slitch would have had to pty the bit, elan Chi.
modified plan wax not put tote (mention. If agate we look
forward to the clone of tee war and the period of reconstrue-
lion, lit, haraly p each' e to anneals the far that the same
results will show themselves in France as were apparent In
Ragland fifty years ago A heavy de.t will necessitate
heavy tones, ad It Is pretty at rain that they must for alt,;
time illacourage all but the most mastery works. The
mheries of war do not and with the war. To aggravate these
b; an unneeessary datinetion of property is a octal mis-
take'