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

THE SURRENDER OF STRASBURG.

The Correinrs.d.nt of the Daily News has sent the
followisg, under date Sept. 30

I entered Strasburg on Thursday at an early hour by Porte
flavenne. On all sides the &WI-Jahn has far greater than I
even ',necked Entire streets were It men of ruins. The
cathedral wan lea ir.jared than I had troth:Mali& The roof
of nave is burned, art the windows are pierced with shot,
Jet the interior is almost entire. The astronomical clock is
untouched, a shell had Razzed through the window tome-
diattly alyzvr It, The 'pins was struck in several places.
The fortilk,tions were no longer ttnahle. It is generally
admitted that the piece could have been rt omed two
breaches were quite practicable. The sullisrirgs of the
inhabitants have been frightful. The minimum ol wounded
chrtlians amounts to three thousand, • large proportion
being women and children. The feeling against the Ger-
maga is very bitter. It ts regarded as a mattrr of enures
that "'freemen will be retained. The prom classes, who
are chiefly Catholic, , re more averze to annexation then the
richer, who are Pret,stauts. DOA thousand soldiers con-
stitute the gmrirott. General Mertens, the military covert or,
livery skit gent to the rules lid down. No newspaper Is
allowed to be publi.hed. All persons must remain indoors
after nine, the military excepted. The soldier.' conduct Li
admirable.

The f flowlng particulars are 01014 :—Ovcr 500 Wench
ntliems signed their parole. From 50 to 100 went into cop.
thy. ~Tne number of prison, re is not yet determined, Once
fr, sh ours continue to surrender. The booty taken Is eaten.
Wed as follows :-170 cannon's, yet counted! two millions
of (taints; the Government prom fly in the hank reekened at
eight millions of frnnc.,hnt as yet doubtful. The munitions,
and especially the stores of cloth, are considerable.
To King of Prussia hal tent 5,000 Mater' to the Inhabl..
touts of Strasburg eh(' have et ff .81 from the affects of the
siege.

CARLSRUHI, Oct 1 (10 20) pm.

General von Siert ens by. been appointed Cenunalitiant
Strastrirg. Ten thousand German troops will remain In the
city as a garrison, and the other fifty thousand of the be-
sieging army wilt go forward Into the Interior of France.
. . . . .

the French prisirers, escorted by a stogie battalion and by
two squads° m, were Feet on Wednesday mortal g to ftastatt.
After the surrender, many of the garrison broke their rill,.
and threw their- sivsvdr Into the moat. Ihlrtymight more
Meets ihan those who wue nieutiobed in the calittul.itlon
received certificates from the 0, linen Shelf yesterday, Tire
behaviour of the garrison after the surrender was disgraceful
F.fteen hundred limes, coonVese cannon, end an knot-mous
ghanti•y or military stores hero been captarea. The nepub-
I eon Prefect V.dientlo was comprehended to the capitulation,
but has not surrendered.

IC le said that Banal and Admiral Ezcelmans were op-
posed to the surrender, which was really forced wan General
llhrlch by the insubordination of the gerrlarn.
The :11th Prussian Regiment of Infantry was the fleet to
enter Strasburg. The town has bren frightfully damaged
The F4ubuurgs Stein and National have been entirely I le•
stroyed. The houses roiled the Cathedral are to ruins, but
the Minster has fortunately been let off eawly. The citadel
Is merely a shapeless moo, of ruins.
The B.rasioirg citizens aro still hopeful of the intervention
f the gr. at Powers, but are resigned. Their sufferings have
been territde.
Talc rooming the official entry of General Weeder tonh
place.. and a greed military service was held in the
illchedial, to celebrate the anniversary of the Fre..ch
Cult •

Kira William ham eat hundred mere Iron crones to the
army, &TA hes promoted U. thmeraL
I'Lr'e,t order prev.dis The troops oceepyl, g tie town
commit no exet a•es what t rte. and the hd,ahhant3 are treated
with pre it cernaderattou. Tee behaviour of the victor. Is In
every way admirable.

The fell wing letter, in connection with the Fur-
render l.f Strasburg, has been forwarded to The 2'inics
for publication :--

t' Heidelberg, Sept. 27 or 28 :4), the day after
the Capitulation of Sassburg.
"As It weeny fortune yesterday tosee Irmo vf the lastabots
fired into Strasburg, a short account of an rep t ditten which I
made to the neigh's, urhorsi of that brave but unfortunate
city may Interest some of your readers. As you will toady
believe, the news that the last refuge of French power
Its A!PAC2 has fallen has thrilled thrsugh every pulse of the
Grand Duchy, and mkt° her proudly satisfied as regards the
share which her own troops have had in the work.
t• As I came thr -ugh Cstlsimbe as d liddelhera tinisy f
f. Aunt tle• rt. t with I r.elo c0...11rp, wiillo 1,1 the
bra vi atel bean. tee s t the good cities°e the events of
yesterday Were 10011 lIIPZU Issribte then In the yards of red
and yellow calico whlch streamed from irk:Wove attd house-
tops. Certainly the yourg l',eiubhic, has fallen upon evil
days. Trh ad Strasburg are lost Mete Count escste the
whleh is closing its upeo her; must Per yield also to
the P me settlitsry tittei,olue and remorseless science to
e • cr. • 5. • ho el I. ill I to I en by energy

end reselnitee to

Tampa feels has been tarnished by the rapid events of the
last nit weeks?

L•aving Freiburg by the first train I reached Appenweler
early yesterday. As the train ran Intn the station, which Is
the piectlon for Strasburg, a hmveinent took place among
the passengers, and all eyes were stralced in roe tff ort to
catch anise sign uf wh :A was plastia.g round the hash god
city. A thrill of h.terest Waited scaly ltearts, and a .11.1a011
rA,19111111,14,ti ruts, to messy bps as we tint caught sight of the
white cloud of smoke Intogir,,ssluegt•hly over Kehl. alai then
if the spire of the stately anteater, rising fresh aml untliannied
far Chive the coeds, aloi tie 101.ig bon of poplAll alai LI.O
plain that divided us from it. Feetu Agpenweler I got at attn.,n
tato a tralu that was waiting at the station, end which took
me as bar as Kork, a lillaga at a Shan cIi.taTICII (Mai Kehl :
from tioe I made on any nate I to walk to am nbeltn, a
valises to the north.eavt of Kehl, with the hope if gator a
View ulcer the low grfalllli (P.m the VI/u.( the chutvh tower.
Eke lieutenant in command of the uttachutetat which occu-
pied the vitt me treated ale with palitene,a, bat declared
that isle Instals were atwolute and did not allow of au) sightr
secins front the tosser.

From A tuddieihr I turned oil 1t0.,, the principal road arid I
followed • cmintry truck which, slier growing so beautiinhy
less that I feared it would soon vaniah altogether, le II me
throu.h a wild dietriot, MI( cover, half niarab, sad which
• eon 71 0111, inhabited by cc lid fowl saul phsasanta. In frost
01 me ran • long line of pop:ars, which creased to promise a
high road. To my surprise, however, as I emerged from the
low jingle widch I had been crosaing, there was the Rhine, I
whicu I still illllollotl to be at same instance in front of me,
II awing at to) feet, and the trees for which Iliad been guiding
nay curio ware the poplar. on the French aloof thy ricer.
Kohl, hidden I y a bend in the river, was about a mile sod a
half above me, la a I ttiansd to my left hand loft. direclon,
following a small track that ran between the swathe aid the
liver. There was no ahn of life OH any side of ma ; I usuld
see ova,, woman, child on either side of the river 1 not
even • le•ar c.t'reur among the peplum waiting for what for-
tune might tend him.
" I w.lked on fore considerahle distance, wading across •
small stream the: dosed into the Rhine, but I could 104
hake an mirk asset feeinig .Iti, which the elle:ice arid
solitude of the place innsraued me. It sccrued so strange to
be slam:dog by the side of that ewlft stream, wider the glare
of the noon-day EMI, to lasso clo.e to the hattertss, and the
fierce work In which they were engaged, to hear the Loaree
rush of the shells as they tore the air In their flight across
the river, antl yet to I e standing to all appearances out of
the sight and track of all human beings. It telt indeed Very
much like a dream, the unmality of which 0140 cannot dii
prove to oneself, though one tries to do 8.1. r:esent'y I
began to feel that It would be difficult to setiefy any peered
that I might meet that (hail not roincesllpurplse in choos
leg sucks deserted spot, and so I aceot,:ingly tamed away
from the river, and prourlng again through the swamp I fol-
lowed a hbill causeway that lel Into Kehl. Having chosen a
sure y miit On this causeway, I wrapped myself up in my plaid,
ate the &hoer which I had br.ught with me, and for
c ;unto of hems gave myself hp to watching the bombard-
ment.

i• Kehl was ilring from three batieries, one being placed con-
aldembly In the rear of the others The work that fell to her
Mare did not seem impot tant ; her batteries firing regulerly,
but very blur ely. to once during the time I was watching
did the San:share garrison, who writ have been very h ril
pen es ni at this time, vouchsafe a single reply to the Kehl
batteries. Alt their temeining Wes 1.11 and energy seemed
to he husbanded agtinsi the more real enemy that was pres-
hg so closely fr un the other side. in that other aide
of the German batteries and of the town itself all view was
shut off irom me by ths impenetrable screen of poplars bathe
inr lu part supplied the Mike of the eye, and t could tell from
the rapid succenion of the shots tired and the short interval
of tine bstween the tint report awl the expluelon of the
shell, hoe deadly and methane afire the German. were pour.
lug front the Maroneo which thm had already taken into the
loner line of iertintatiens. It was dldisult to judge with
precision e luit kind if rot t Strasburg was still ab:e to make
to her assail tuts. limn than slice I noticed that the shells
which the was using, and whlch were lighted by time Meets,
burst In the air ever the Prnesian batteries, but as Vie day were
on It seented to me that her cues were answering more and
m el w:y and painfully. It was evident that the end w-s
very It or.
ti There was something piteous in the apestacie, as, indeed
there is always something piteous at the end of ovary snug
gle, wlnu all hope and power of resistance are gone, to
stand by and watch the last blows which are recenary to
complete what is already assured. Perhaps the pc culler
lecture of the scene, the great Cethedral of the Lawn, added
ta this fooling. ugh aboys eat rything, lathe very centre
of the storm which was raging round 1,, but calm and
patient, as if still ponened wtth unshaken confidence, rose
the RI nious muster. The bursting shells hallowed r lurid
it with those stilton nnd stigsd echoes which man at a
distance cwvey.me imprestton of their terrible ',lnver for
evil. but the look of aspiration and faith Which the old
builders knew s r well how to write Cu stone remained no.
chatqfPel on the foes of those massive walls and that keen
fervent spre. It would have been hard, I thought, for one
who atronely ryttipathised wish the fortunes of the falling
town to have looked at the Cathedral at that moment, mid
to have believed that hope was gone, that the hand tint
held the balances had found the lot of the unhappy city light
Is the scale. . .

"I found Kehl limn In a neat and orderly condition, and
unlike a town enga.ed la s xch-ongtng the rude compliments
of war. It %VA however, nearly deserted by it. inhabitants,
Inns, shops, and houses having their shutters Isstened and
their bolts dras-n. Here and them some house was in um
as an s Wee or for some midtary purpose. A good ninny
houses had been burnt, and a good many more bore traces
of the danger of living within fortified places. The church,
too, had shared in the rough fortunes of its hunsbli r neigh-
bour!, and though not seriously injured IL had beets sts nek in
ninny planes by splinters of shell.

_ _
" From Kehl I returned to Appenweler, through Kork.
It wane beautiful evenirg, and my path tel me pleasantly
enough, if Lot 'through sumns:r belts of wheat and wine,'
yet through a country of rich said varied produce. The
present moment b one of the gladdest and busiest of the
many glad said busy seasons which belong to the eontketn
plains of the Ithtno.. Many of the good things stitch the
soil yields are now coming into store. As I passed throttah
the golds I found the men busy In cutting nod briegine in
the second hay harvest, the women were boating out tie
the children were heleing to relieve the trees of their nee
burdens of appes, and pears, and walnuts. Everywhere
around me wore plenty and happluese As I watched tte
cheerful labour if the penile I could not hetp thinkieg of tie
storm of 'evasion which had once threatened this eistrict,
and of the terribhi picture of u-not and suffering which 1
had seen in those parts of France which have been traversed
and fought • ezr by the two armies. The ;produce of the soli
wasted, land fatting out of cultivation, men and Wes,.. once
thriving eud proPperous, scraping together with difficulty
some miserable pittance of the corset food, lhese things
hove been hunt in many a French vilisse and town as the
nterseit got the wont 'war.' The lesson hal been very sharp,
bat however p deful to witness, I think it will rot be also-
gether fruPtlese as regards the future either of Francs her-
self or the other witions of Furor,. It seems to me
that the best hopes et the Were would have been dimmed
it the ration which bad b.en the most earnest and perse-
vering in every branch of peaceful occupation, whims had
made greater efforts than any other to d:velepe a common
nod universal intelligence, had not proved itself stronger
than a nation which had sought to make of war a profession
and cf its army a mere war instrument. Strange as it may
seem to litter the words at the preeco t moment, yet I believe
that this wtr 5s1:1 do much to lay the f Plantationa of a more
lasting peace than we have yt t known, for it will leave th's
cosine ion firmly planted iu the minds it men—that a na-
tion cannot be smog in wart ithont being strong Its peace,
and turn those whose everyday work is the toundett, whose
common life Is the Trost SCHOUs and earnest, are those who
can at Coed put forth the greatest strebgth, can do Sail can
suffer the most.

I ctnnot close toy letter without echoing a wish that I
find exi,ts at the pre:ent moment in the allied cf all Es„dish
men we o have sympsthbed with Germany in the present
war. One I ictory there still remains for the Gonnaus. liars
they Vs, errs, gth, have they tan desire to gain it 1 I mean
the victory of moderate mid generous counsels in this mo-
ment of their resistless poser. Is the sight of the people
keen enoegh and their heart large enough ti save
%liens from the mere caloilatione of their stktestneli,
and to teach them that one generous act more surely
d hands an enemy than defeat accumulated on U. feat? Let
them use aright tlis oi portunity of dealing forgirlegly with
a defeated enerey, and by every right and with every content
the first Vaal in Europe is theirs but let them dbeepard
the moral opinion of the civilized world by the use witch
they make el the tremendous (ores which is lo teed in their
hands, ard It is no rash prophecy to any that they challenge
a lower which is 'trouper even than their armies, 9.11 ti nhtoh
never fails sooner or latir to assert itself. 'A. IL"

The Correspondebt of the Cologne Gazette states that In tie
Interior of Strasburg only a few large buildings were de-
stroyed, nearly RiIf0:11 being Intact. Th 9 Cathedral look,
better than was expected, arid will not rrqiiirJ many re-
pairs The earthen., on marching out of the town, tried to
throw nosy their knapsacks, and vented their rage at the
capitulation, exclaiming /ions sotntnes oendur,""Chinch
rot utt coquin." They broke mei flung away their swords.
The Correspondent of the Carlsrulut Gazette says General
I:Wile's issued a prim:lineation, statatig that as the enemy
hat elicited two breaches and he could no longer hold the
citadel, being also threatened with a storm e Rhin 21
hours, Ire was compelled to surrender. Tat', he added,
would save the town from a great misfortune, and be urged
that nobody should thew hostility towards tie German
troops. The ...met of many of the garrison in throwing
away and deitreying their swords was not owl, g to the rage
of deep in, but to a hopeless suet indeed senseless anger
Frowning countenances were to be seen anti ng the chilli.%
but an aspect rf ref *Attrition prevailed. It has bad to
come to this with us" he ht ard three or four times, and it
was an expreselon of the general feeling. They evinced great
curiosity to see thd Prussians (niter the place, and children of
the lower &aces, et the cry liere come the Frnaslaus,"
rushed indoors in terror. The municipal council was so
threatened by the pp dare, made fanatical through the
conferdonel, that the National Guard had to be called out
to protect them. More than one member could riot venture
em eurirg the days prior to the surrender wlthi.ut a
revolver. Theca- imlation was regarded by many as shame-
(ul treachery : Vranee-Tireura wanted to pull down the
white flog from the alles:er, and eeveral shot, were fired at
It. Imply, the mob had no kedera .Some of the Eretti
am he aps ol rides, but the bombardment made less havi e
than tetx:it helm teen expected. Thousands of the :nimbi.
tants bait lived fee works In wooden huts alongside the canal,
the houses being unsele The German troops mar ciied tut
the teen quietly, through a silent multitude, and mule a
good anti, to some extent, imposing impreision. Fraternise-
tloll has begun in the publiehousee. A fee:leg of thankf
nets that the siege in over will soon prevail. General Mertens
Is appointed conimandwit. It is rumoured that on the 29th
several shots were fired by Franes.Te ors, that a German
Fold', was murdered, arid that a proclamation hits been
Issued forbidding more than two persons to staled together
in the streets.

A letter from Anita% in the Carlbruhe Gazette, deecribes
the arrival of the Strasburg garrison, about 17,000 strong.
They Kneered mostly very nolitlerset, and cepresssel
excessive fatigue, and few of them looked rsunit with tiny
cut lordly. Their officers a ere rather dellatit than humble it,
but cone of them shed tears The procession lastest five
It appears that up to the last bre.,l and wine v ere
plentifill, as well as horn flesh (of which they spoke highly)
but the fiettgues they bail to undergo were very great, and
for weeks they could not trees. The losses in men and
evertor officers through the bombardment wove great. The
Republic was recognised without any dissentients, and the
new Prefect rt ached the town by SWllllllllllg. In the c smell
of war two members voted against surrender. Almost all
the stslf ottb es were liberated on pledging themselves not
to take up arms again during the war, but mon of the
subordinate tlhaers preferred to share the captivity of their
men

The Cerro% ondent of the Pall Mall Gavtic bs .Ino
given the fuliowiog interekting particulars of the our-
render of Strasburg, under date of Oztober lot :

"I was at headquarters with the army at Meta when the
news of the fail ot Strasbur; arrived . Having the necoa
any passer, I travelled by military train, surrounded by the
egos if war. I had taken under my charge some of the
sick and wowided from the army before Al:troth° were
belog transported tato the reserve hospitals. Oite poor bil-
low was an old acqualniance, for! bait been chatting with
him en the pr.vious thy at the outpost an hour he, ire lie
area wotioded. It was at at. 'Wheel°. lie hart shown groat
bratty, remaming lame at an isidated farmhause, winch
was shelled by the Fiendis. Ile was one of the Outsold, rf
humane, and hal been a steeptschase rider iu Germ Any Rod
In Irehted, 117 d had ridden at the Hendon races. The poor
'blow's hand hal been shattered by a shell; he was going
home to his relatives to get it treated, acd was cheered by
the prospect of the Iron Cross of Valour which had been
promised him. Ile bore his pain with wonderful pluck, and
at totervals smoked sal chatted gaily. We took him wilt
us as lie as Neuctasit in a first-clots carriage, end exchanged
souvenirs."

• The town of Nenstadtwas brilliant wlthfl lg.,the Bat ar.aa
colours—blue and wl,ite—largely Intermixed with a prepon-
derating tains of too now popular hog of (tsrmany—red,
blackand gold—the emblem of German aspiration, "'Einigbeli,
Friene, nod Frei belt " 1.1,,i1y, Peace, and Freedom'. The
little barber who expounded the meaning of there flags, which
were new to me, danced about in in great an excitement as
scrimply to filly air It Is s Ilidency sucl my Comfort; and tie
r,.Fies hr h.OO, a or. of ny u!tole crop of hair rn t: e
aft r of G c • ti a." ons it Is only f dr to soy thot Lb
ens hushusu was r aroosed Fy the appeSti.ooo of
the pus man with tom, Feld.karten lettere, and the arrival
Of nolgtitrluri to hear the news_
• the trait was now ready to Mart, and we got off. We did
not recoil Wetnienheitn, too nearest orals station to Stras-
burg, kill Meg past 2)31(11.10A, and of rousse hod to stern in
the ruih.ty run flg. tip we eonhi ret a leiter Warn to drive

noon to Straabing. Every station we had paned through
was more or ten occupied by soldiers But from William-
bourg to Weudenheim the place swarmed with soldiers and
munitions of war. As dawn broke, we started in Search of •
waggon, and but for the magic of my military pares and an
li:formal but stout " rripisdlen " at a neighbouriug farm
Ii am, wo abroad have tourist ereol litlliolty ID Rath g
hi. We progressed very slowly. The rotOR swarniet
ith ea, at,,e trudging on fort out of Strashurg to their
II eon lit the neighbouring stilagos, with every kiod of
rough vehicle boleti with poor rustic furniture, chlidrev,
lyirg on the wagging and the stouter me ru'irra of the family
' walking mei wash. We panic I through parks of artillery.
Prussian abd Liavarisii, lately hr ughi. down lu case of need,
hut which hot not been used ; through drove* of condi awl
Ii ins of shrep We saw mcdl till Of h,rcad, rice,rigs's
wine, sad every keel of DrOVlSlells. Laps vt roof pro
vender have beers accumulated. and tl,e wirment the gotiw
veers Well torte supplies of fresh runt were keet tnt;
(rem tllituilnnrig firrt, and then Wel irOnic lace, medical
slices and c insfurts had burn porirci lit, the hospitals. I
shim: et in the middle of 01.0 Ot the fields to see tille SOleitiS
vilieltiteriee. and theAtlelg ....II In an encloirde appropriated
as an abattoir.. .. IL would not, I think, lie po,sible to
&wire a wore rapid and pointers mode of • riogliThing luto
than that which these soldier, adopted. fresh meat is very
abundant in the raw.
"-

•
"Regaining the high road, we slowly trade our way to the
doors at Strasburg, parsing here a general's camp equipage
In admirable trim and there a broken back with its bony !
load of tables and 6hatra. We p.essed through tte Germito
parallels, which were, however, more complete and elated. I
ate on the otherside, till we reached the Porte NaLlOtmle.
all BMee we were surrounded toy seldiers. They were chang-
ing their positions and preparlig to march. All the heavy
guns abet p,rt if Vo troop. here, ainolr,tlng to abdit 110,0e0
in all, not go fr.ito litre Weheu• i On truly or
Pails tojain intim into., Aloe: .1 l :0 Natimialewe
messed through a Wasted try turd
shattered c Atages testifying I- . • f the gees of
strashurg tone, sin t and thy-, ~ • , ro.ve eel Oil
them from the Donlon and P I• ..,. I -o (At gate
is wrecked, Oa =muzzy bat, ,I t cc had
to wv. t in an oddly-cot, • - • men of
the gate was remedy - .r00t,,, .5. The
w.dtleg malt tail., S. • n filled
with I rotisions, with I . ~; ; tourist s
m.klog their way to r ed city, and
citirms who had tat, !I • • : hearts to
what was left Cl 11, mass a the
people, hot I GB • . . o ore no mournful
faces. Toe Stra..eurg,- 'r. .o them the worst
was over, and wile tin.... t..• • , 1- at teen spared the
Ittely hop :tiding horrors of toeing taken by storm. Grillleitt
welt fl manta In pityingly, and yet happily, to see what they
consider to be theft regained shred of fatherbutd, and to
comfort and succour tat le restored brethren. The iatdiog of
the since bail been calibrated in tdo morning by Cathclic
sod Peotestant services in the Orangery The Ptoteitant
peirer hail selcuasehl (lateral Venter um their new-tuned
leader, the representative of their true fatherland. " Ah,"
•aill a l'llitrieu talter, "that Wale great moment; now will
the Germ,a fatherland be complete."

'As we streamed on through tie streets vru pasa:d
Intween whole rows of hots,, intro 10,1, battered to piece.,
omit; many places completely gusted by tire. 0: the tine
old Library, ouly some portions of the bare walls remain.
ailidedeig temple Nut if equally gulled. Oa the
stone tlaor of the Library lie meanie of broken stone aqui
rubbish amoug remains of carved enrichments of the pillars,
which will no doulA he greedily carried away is a few day.
by re& hinders. 1 w.is collimated with some charnel !refi.
nicOle of mauuscripte, of which masses are blown by the
sled into all corners. N.A a book or mamxcript seems to
have etc sped the filmes." Tim Cathedral itself, close at
hand, has not escaped quite unhurt, but, although so promi-
nent a mark, It baa been remarkably blared. Toe upper
wooden roof seems to be quite burned away. A shell falling
through the roof has smashed the organ. Some of the upper
tier oi wilide•s are a goad deal damaged, bat the lower
• stride's. have ban taken ourxiel are carefully stowed away,
believe, Intact so also the wlnuow at the east und,anit tee
greater pert of the church furniture and the Wan,'
Ohre and there the stonework of the outer galleries is slightly
blend, but the clock is unit jormi, and on the whole the
cathedral has suffered no trimmer-elle damage. The cathe-
dral swarmed with German solabrs, whi had h stencil to
assure themselves of its safety, and were .loud In their excla-
mations el delight at finding It so little hajured. It 1211134
have hod mail a narrow escape, 14 It hsa latee hit many
time., ai d some of the liuse. around it are literally gutted.
in the lady-chapel were beteg some families of woman a il
children. Dui- 110111( s had been burned by shells, mut,
Laing poor and homeless, they had been permitted to wretch
their m tare. sea on the floor thorn e g the Ileac., and tiny
did sot yet know what oth.r shelter to seek.
" The shops were slowly beginning to take down the mate
tresees and soaked bags piled up in front of their shutters
to cave their coutema trots the exploding sOoth, The
.ratings giving access ot light and air to the underground
rooms and milers were I emu freed horn the earbsnernents
of earth which had been heaped over them to give safety to
•the inmate.; for these weld the dwelling as d sleeping
places of molt f those who could eft aril to consult their
sterility durin; the siege. Strusl.utg was absking eft las
nightmare, and the people, amid all their distrefi, wore an
&epee: of gladness.
° The moat frightful scene of de el ruction 13 in the etti orb
known aa Schl igheitn, or the Qitorl.er St. then e This has
Mei utterly burned red torn to pieces, chiefly by the guns of
the el add, lest the Germans should find shelter In it I can
ccrepare it to pinching but ilszeillne, at I bet will Oily
COI., ey an Idea to those few who hoe e yet wished the b attle-
field of Sedan. The streets are strewed with abr.; of the
houses, there remain here s into blackened walls, there a heap
Of stones and bricks., k The signboards, the police mato mice-
Meets, in many places hear testimony to the recent !icily,'
life which pervaded this meat of ruins; bet they rather add
to than aietmcs from the bitten:era of Ls desolation. A part
Of the inhabitants, I Mid, are already beginning to count
ritrui the advantages of Gentian annexation Tory expect
teem it an indemnity wrung from Frames to pay for the
soatemiol inj idles sefitced upon the WWII 111 Sirs Liege, 9.e.d
the conside, ation is not without Its weight. ,

Amorg the cremates of the place are the back Lumbers
of the Courrier au Boa Rhin, published in the city through( ut
the contlnuancs of the siege, and by means of which, aided
by the km truetworthy rtuvenire of the fuhabitants, you
may live again through the horrors of the siege. 'ln the
earlier rrun.bors me traces the &rill-ling leaves with
which the people of Strasburg watched the beneaaw ring
soldiers close around them. Tee battles of Wissenthurg rani
Weerth broterht the tight nearly home to them Strasburg
made earnest n nrts to relieve alio sufff ring brought
SO close to her room. She sent ten small awl:untrue', with
an organised staff breach, andeonvoysof food to Wceroh
Bitchwiller, where the wounded wore suffering from hunger.
But already on the ramparts they were beginning to fool the
near af preach of the chemn tlinemunications In letter arid
telegraph were cut off, are the surrounding; villages were oc-
cupied by German trope. '1 len the siege begins.
At tliat the neatest amount of hkral is dire by the
defenders. Toe fr.nch destroy the roads, cut down
the trees, aid fire the Luildin go outside their hues, that
the enemy may end no shelter. The Gard* Mobile are
r• f andiron:ell with Mareling csnuon" hey conneueellog and
ilestneyieg the establishmeut of the L l'osteur. In the
ieterents of t Ist loot of the city hear the Q stutter Sc.
torte, Its rich rubel', of Schiltighttm is given to the ti ones,
kud the pipit... Alerts of the cemetery of Helmis are cut
down; ten lot OWA the destruct!, not breweries and work-
shops—'mlllions (1 streycel out peat end lucrative le-
dwelt s annihilated." So far the history ol the siege reads
like a bintery of that of Paris nip t this time.
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Then come the stern r.allties of bomhercientnt 'Never
will Strasburg forget the emotions of the first two wet its of
August." says the writer of the local thronicle, but last
night--the night of the 18th turd the Doming of the 191h—
has been the wort tenni; of alt." It was toe night of the
first • ffe, tire hombari meat ; tie fall of the bombs, the
fires they caused, the cert. ucVotr, and the deaths are de-
scribed iii painful detail. An "eloquent law Cr " writes to
tto paper a letter descriptive of his terrible fright, mid how
be tonic refuge it. a cellar, and did not route mit till the
firing was over. these Inc lare everyday tow dents very
soon, ant no one writes about them; every body levee It.
the cellar who can afford to be lele and take no part in
the fight Of peopie who move about the 'Meet, met, woineo,
and children are daily killed,
have before me the extract's from the civii registers of
births, deaths, anki marriages. Ihe last mama& eof uhieh
I rind record is that if Marc-Emile Seuranel peuitre-ch reur.
vent, et Marie-Madeletrie Nrkola This was on the 195 h of
September, eight rtoys before the capaulation ; the weeding
music must have been mu ttal and hoarse: On the same day
were lulled by that's Chi.rles Rhea ten years rid, Marie
Erphrasse, aged stxty.htne y ems, Emile Roy, aned tin years,
with eight or !nue other adult citizoo.. Initials could nut
be mate en the ordinary «anterior outside the city; the
Botanical Gardens wore temporarily arsigued tor the put..
pose.

' The le,habitants were beginning to get pinched for food.
On the LOGI of August middlemen were p.ohehited from
!myths up meal and raising its price, and all sates were
ordered to be made in op.en market. h evattei lees, reef
rose to four francs a pound, and finally could sot be had.
Dorsett, sh wetn good and plentetal at hail the price. Potatoes
seventy franca asset. The price of bread was fixed Ity authority
ou the Int of September—s hhe bread at Sid and black brrial
at 31d, the two-pouhd loaf. nice ass p'euttiul and beer ansi
wine. Patel de tote gras do not seem to have tailed, for a
friend with rue has brought away a pile of them to give in
presents as w:. at he mil), calls "souvenirs of the siege."
tre the last day of the siege the Courrier appeared on a
smaller sheet, and was °insanely full of horrors. As usual
the day 'a list of the victims of bomburintent includes the
names of levered w-onion and childt en. "TOO ludubtrdmert
has rem terrific. I; seemed as if the dange r could be no
longer increased, and most terrible enii is of war had
already been used ; but last night they hurled Isteehelitry
bombs of a weight prey! tidy unknown td incredible
distances ; they hunt through EV,II into the cellars ; in one
hose six veld, were killed and twelve wounded almost simul-
taneously. This was the last night of these horrors.
Thirty hours afterwards the troubits of Stralburg wire at
an end—for the protest, at less,. Tne shops were being
opened, the Gersmdlosperking solv fors wrio luel bombarded
the two were drinking beer wilt the Germaterpeaking
lohalntauts who had suffered from the bamtmedm..lit, mot al
Germany was afoot to oeek to sepa7r the tetras it had an.
willingly Cone. You may- be sure that ehi Germans wl,l o
qdtt gow threeho'd of 8:ro,1,14, now sleep% Item thpLri, r
lutes mid with Litter disappointment: