The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15 00:00:00

THE WAR.

PROCLAMATION OF 11. GAMBILTTA.
T.CRS, Oat. 10.

IN I. Gambetta has issued the following proclamation,
dated the 9th of October, addrcseed to the citizens of
the I )epartments :
" By order of the Republlcsri Government I byre left Paris
to convey to you the hopes of the Parisian people, and the
Instruction and orders .1 those abs accepted the minion of
delivering France from the foreigner.
" For 17 days Parte has been Invested, and offers the spec-
tacle of two millions of men, who, forgetting all differences,
range themselves round the Republican flag, will disappoint
the expectations of the Invader, who reckoned upon civil
discord. The Revolution found Paris without cannon and
without arms Now, 400,000 National Guards are armed,
100,000 Mobiles have been summoned, and 00,000 regular
troops are assembled.
" I ha foundries cast C.llOO, the women make one million
rartridgesd ally. The National Guar.' have teumitraillenses
for each ha tallow Field pieces are being made for north 9
against the besiegers. The Inds are manned by Marines, an.l
are filetilshe 1 * ith marvellous artillery, served by the first
gunners in the world. Up till now their fire has prevented
the enemy from establishing the smallest work.

" the der inte, which on the 4th of September had only
600 cannon, has now 3,8.0, with 400 rouuds of ammunition
for each.
• - •

The casting of projectiles continues with ardour
Every one Is at the post assigned to hin for fighting. The
'mom, Is uninterruptedly covered by the National Guard,
who from morning until night drill for the war with
patriotism and steadiness. The experience of these improvised
soldiers Increases
Behind the elleienle there is a third line of defence formed
of barricades, behind which the Parisians are found to defend
the Repubt c with the genius of street fighting. All this has
'seen executed with calmneu and order by the concurrence
and en thuelasm of all. It is not a vain illusion that Paris Is
ImpregnaWle. It cannot be captured Dor surprised. Teo
other means remain to the Prussians—With-1n and famine.
hut sedition will not arise, n famine either.

" Paris, by placing herself on rations, has enough to defy
the enemy for long months, thanks to the provisions which
have been accumulated, and will bear restraint and scarcity
with manly constancy, in order to afford her brothers in the
Departments time to gather.
" Such Is, without disguise, the state of Paris. This state
Imposes great duties upon you. The tint is to have no other
occupation than the war; the second is to accept fraternally
the supremacy of the Republican power, emanating from
necessity and right, which will serve no ambition. It has no
other passion than to rescue France from the abyss into
which Monarchy has plunged her.

"This done: the -Reptiblic will be founded, sheltered
against conspirators and reactionlats Therefore I have the
order, without taking into account difficeiltia or opposition,
to remedy, and, although time fails, to make up by activity,
the shortcomings caused by delay Men are cot wanting.
What has failed us has been a decisive resolution and the
consecutive execution of our plata. That which failed
us after the shameful capitulation at Sedan was arms
All supplies of this nature had been sent on to Sedan,
Metz, and Strasburg, as if, one would think, the authors of
our disaster, by a last criminal combination, had desired at
their fall to deprive us of all means of repairing cur ruin.
Steps have now been taken to obtain rifles and equipments
from all parts of the world. Neither workmen, nor
money are wanting. We must bring to bear all our
resources, which are Immense ; we must make the pro-
vinces shake off their torpor, re-act against foolish panics,
multiply our p wilsara, offer traps and ambushes to
harass the enemy, and inaugurate a national war. The
Republic demands the co-operation of all ; it will utilize the
courage of all its citizens, employ the capabilities of
each, according to it. traditional policy, will make
young men its chiefs. heaven itself will cease to favour
our adversarlei ; the autumn rains will come, and, de-
tained and held in check by the capital, far from their
home& and troubled and anxious for the future, the
Prussians will be decimated one by one by our arms, by
hunger, and by nature. No; It Is not possible that the genius
of France should be for ever more obscured ; it cannot be that
a great nation shall let Its place in the world be taken from
it by an Invaalon of 500,000 men. Up, then, In a mass, and let
no die rather than suffer the shame of dismemberment.
In the midst of our disasters we have still the sentiment
left of French unity and the indivisibility of the Republic.
Faris, surrounded by the enemy, affirms more loudly and
more gloriously than ever the immortal device which is dic-
tated to the whole of France. • Long live the Republic
• Long live France !" Long the the Republic, One and
Indivisible "