The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-06 00:00:00

THE WAR IN DENMARK.

(From the Special Correspondent of the .'limes.)
SONDERBURG, July 1.
As after the capture of Duppel, the Prm:siann•
now in occupation of this dilapidated town, seem
quite surprised at the facility of their last triumph,
which has placed in their hands the island of Alsen,
and so completed the conquest of Schleswig. They
are all eagerness to go to Funen, which they confi-
dently
b a assertbl
e wouldh quickly be taken, and, although
i the chief Danish force is now as-
sembled on that island, one can hardly call their
confidence presumption when one sees how poorly
the Danes defended themselves here. No one who
stands on the Sundewitt shore at Satrup or Sand-
berg can help feeling surprise that an enemy should
have been allowed to cross that broad channel in
open boats with scarcely any loss. The fact shows
such unreadiness and want of vigilance on the part
of a foe who certainly cannot be accused of
cowardice, that one does not wonder at hearing
that, the crossing effected, the expulsion of the
Danes from the island was little more than a hunt,
with the exception of a stand they made at a place
called Kjar, north of Sonderberg, on the road from
• where they seem to have dee
fendedrh
themselves
obstinately, and where the Prus-
siansß o
oe
af yt o
thUe 1 kb ea by uo l
nl e t
was used. When I say the
expulsion from the island I hardly know whether I
should make an exception on account of Kekenis,
where the Danes still are at this time of writing,
and where their ships are to he seen engaged in re-
moving troops and stores. Kekenis, a patch of land
lying due south of the island, used to be connected
with it by an isthmus so narrow that the geogra-
phers in depicting it scarcely found room to indicate
the road that passed over it. That isthmus has
lately been cut through, so that Kekenis is now an,
island. The rumours of to-day relate to an alleged
projected attack upon it, but there seems an under-
standing that the Danes should be allowed quietly
to go away unmolested, although if they depart
with their characteristic slowness the Prussian
batteries may be tempted to open upon them.
With respect to the passage from Sundewitt and the
incidents that ensued upon it, I perceive that the
Hamburg papers have, as usual, in their eagerness
to give information which they do not possess, been
drawing upon their imaginations and deluding the
public—so far, at least, as it puts faith in their pro-
verbially
accounts. Thus their informa-
tion have been effected over
concerning
the passage
a pontoon bridge,and followed by a prolonged stout
fight at Sonderburg, where the principle loss was
sustained, and the valiant defence made by the
Danes of one position after another, proves for the
most part erroneous. There was no bridge at all,
but the passage was made in small boats, of which
nearly 200 seem to have been employed, carrying
each from 15 to 25 men. If you trace upon the map
the west shore of Alsen Sound, beginning at its
northern extremity, you soon come to a wooded
promontory. This is Satrup Wood, whence the
principal attack was made. Boats also went across
at Schnabeck and at two other points in that neigh-
bourhood. The crossing commenced as nearly as
possible at 2 o'clock a.m., and officers who were in
the boats have told me that they had reached the
middle of the Sound before the Danes began to fire,
and that then the fire was so misdirected (appa-
rently too high) that it had scarcely any effect.
According to some accounts only two men were
killed and six or eight wounded during the crossing,
but it is difficult to ascertain the exact numbers, as
those hit in the boats would be mixed up with others
who fell immediately on landing. At the principal
point of:pessage the Ist battalion of the 60th Regi-
ment (which forms with the 35th the well-known
CAnstein brigade) were drawn up on the Sandwitt
shore, and covered the boats by the quick fire of
their needle guns—a most serviceable weapon in
such circumstances. This battalion, by the by, was
first under fire in this war at Missunde on Feb. 2,
and the 60th, the 35th, and 61th are probably the
regiments that have done the most work since then.
The force that crossed Alsen Sund on Wednesday
morning was 17 battalions. In Sundewitt there
were two divisions, each of two brigades, each bri-
gade of two regiments, and of each regiment two
battalions crossed, Besides the 16 thus obtained, the
3a Jager battalion, old friends and acquaintances at
Broaelter, were forward in the attack, and suffered
more than their proportion of the very moderate loss
inflicted on the assailants by the discomfited Danes.
Their commandL7g officer, the gallant Major von
Witzleben, fell at thb2r head, severely wounded in
the side. The troops left their helmets and knap-
sacks on the Sundewitt shore. As soon as the Danes
(whose attention had previously t,; en distracted as
much as possible by lights and noise a: Ballegaard
and elsewhere) detected the commencemen: of the
crossing their beacons flamed up as a signal to te:elr
ships. The Rolf Krake lay in Augustenburg Bay,
but seemingly her fires were banked, as on the day
of the storming of Duppel, for a considerable time
elapsed before she emerged upon the scene of action,
and then she Was received with such a concentrated
fire from the Prussian batteries that she was sick of
it, and again sought shelter behind the friendly
promontory. She opened with grape at too great a
distance, and seems to have done no harm to the
troops on shore, but she sank a couple of boats, one
of them containing about 25 men, who were nearly
all drowned. The boats were protected from the
Danish infantry fire by
raettresses. A great num-
ber of these had been got togeta
'er to be used in the
assault on Duppel,
where,
,however,
they had been
found of little use, and for the most part h.:cl been
thrown aside by the storming party before it
reached the forts. The mattresses were fixed in the
bow of the boats as a buckler, and are said to have
stopped many shots. The Danes used their artil-
little.
lery very The east coast of the Sound
has long bristled with batteries, but very few
guns were found in there"-at least, long that north-
ern frontier which extends from Ahrenkiel Ore
southwards to a small bay nearly opposite Ravens-
koppel—that is to Say, about halfway from the point
opposite Schnabeak to Sonderburg. As soon as the
first batch of troops, say about 3,000 men, were
across, the chief difficulty of the undertaking waa
surmounted. The Danes drew back to a wood called
Holsforet, opposite to Satrup,
wood, bat at some dis-
tance from the shore, and soon, as the Prussians be-
came more numerous, they Were everywhere in fall
retreat. At Sjariwhioh is a long straggling village
and a good position, they fought stoutly, and also
in a wood's little to the n
—erth, where a great many
fell on both sides. It Was important they should
make a stand somewhere, in order to allow time for
retreat to troops more In the interior of the island.
They did not, however, hold oat long enough to
prevent the capture of a large number of prisoners.
Not less than 2,600, perhaps 3,ooo,were taken by the
Prussians. You Were informed of the departure of
700 yesterday from Flensburg, where in churches
and other buildings, a great many more were there
confined, On the road up to this place I met 525
men, marching southwards, under escort of a few
Lancers. They belonged and
to 10th Regiment,
were chiefly stout fellows of from 2,5 to 30 years of
age, with a few old noneeonantietsiocet: officers. No

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The Danish Blockade.
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(From the London Gazette of Tuesday, July 5.)
NOTIFICATION OF BLOCKADE.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, July 5.
It is hereby notified that Earl Russell, K.G., her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, has received despatches from her Majesty's
Minister at Copenhagen and her Majesty's Consul
at Stettin, enclosing the following official notifica-
tion of the blockade of the German ports of the
Baltic :

"The Ministry of Marine notifies herewith, that
the blockade of the Prussian ports of Colberg, Cam-
min, Swinemunde, Wolgast, Greifswalde, Stral-
sund, and Barth is effectuated the 27th instant, and
that the blockade of the ports of Holstein andSchles-
wig, mentioned in the notification of the 25th inst.
is likewise effectuated the 26th inst.

" 0. LITTKEN.

"Ministry of Marine, Copenhagen, June 28."

With respect to neutral vessels in the abovemen-
tioned ports, it is officially notified that they may
complete the lading of their cargoes and leave these
ports without being interrupted up to July 16, but
that on July 17, and afterwards, all neutral vessels
leaving these ports will be liable to seizure by the
Danizh blockading force.
With respect to the harbour of Pilnan, Earl
Russell has received a despatch from her Majesty's
Consul at Koenigsberg, containing the following no-
tification from the captain of his Danish Majesty's
frigate Jylland, certified by the Danish consul at
Pillau

" On board his Majesty's frigate Jylland, off
Pillau, June 27.
"The undersigned has the honour to inform the
consuls residing at Pillau that the blockade of the
said port has been re-established by the force under
his orders. The neutral ships which are now in the
port will be allowed until July 16 to complete their
freight and to leave Pillau. After that period—
that is to say from the 17th of next month—every
neutral vessel leaving the port of Pillau will be
seized by the ships under my orders.

" .
" The Consuls of the Neutral Powers, PiHORN
llau."

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stopped my carriage sa•
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SERIOUS RIOTING AT TUNBRIDO-E-WELLS.—On roadside fr., see them pass, and exchanged
me
Saturday night last a riot perfectly unprecedented words w;
-, :in several of them, wiio ‘O,l answered
~
,_ le ,party
in its nature took place at Tunbridge Wells. A few weeks it h
•-.r.,rman. They assured me that th 6 ww"-- ';*v
ago it was rumoured that an epidemic in the shape of typhus 1
o.,nsisted of Schleswigers ; but that is a qu-....
and scarlet fever had visited the place, and in consequence
prisoners when they speak German,
which Danish t
a large number of visitors left. The report appears to hav 0 I
are sometimes glad o assume, in the hope
great Inet:LlY
given great annoyance, and as a Mr Webber was idenFASed
withg it a large mob of about 1,000 persons asserabled La frontbetter treatment
of his house on the evening in question, and having burnt and even release. Some other prisoners with whom
him in effigy commenced to smash his pl.ate glass windows. I have conversed at greater leieure,land who were ,I
The small police force was quite powP,rless, and the crowd In
that it may procure them
tlanders and Island-Danes, expressed themselves I
was only dispersed at a late hour 'oy a heavy fall of rain, with id- •
ke and other
in which their ships
On Sunday, the excitement in the town continued, and an- n
other riot is considered as proba.ble. It is said that the had behaved, It seemed as if they
ignation at the manner their •
upon the Rolf Kra had reckoned
sanitary inspector sent down by Sir G. Grey, on Mr Web-
ber's application, could find nothing to justify the evil re- Alsen from invasion, 'and perhaps this cause
that
respecting the unhealthy condition of the town, deuce in their naval resources was the cause that
• `:essels to secure