The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-28 00:00:00

THE WAR.

IMPORTANT MOVEMENT BY

TROCHU,

BIMLIN, December 20 (11.30 p.m.).

A. portion of the Supplementary Reserve has
been called out to start for the front, after a short
drill.

General Trochu is provisioning Mont Valerien,
as though intending to retreat t) that fort and the
fortified camp as its foot when Paris surrenders.

The sami-official Warren's Correspondent of
Vienna says that there is nothing to prevent the
l'oNvers consenting to a change in the position of
Luxemburg on the conclusion of peace.

COMMENCEMENT OF THE BOMBARDMENT
OF FORT AVRON.
BERLIN, December 27.
The bombardment of the Paris forts was opened
to-day with an attack on Fort Avron. There have
ben great rejoicings here in consequence of this
event.
The attack ou the other forts is to follow.

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.

GONESSE C hrist 32as Day.)

Sluggish firing has taken place at intervals all
day, indeed, .ever since midnight. The troops here
Were alarmed, but were not called out.
On the 21st. inst. 60 men of the Queen Elizabeth
hegiment were taken prisoners outside Le Bourget.
The French have sent back a captured ambu-
lance. One of the medical men reports that the
German prisoners were well treated, and supplied
Plentifully. with coffee, cognac, sugar, an I wine.
The meat served out to them was hooseilesh. The
men are at St. Denis. The French officers are with-
out cigars. _ _ _

A. single shell yesterday killed and wounded four-
teen men of the Ist Regiment of the Guards at Pont
lon. The weather is terribly cold.

PURSUIT OF THE FRENCH ARMY OF THE

NORTH.

VERSAILLES, DeCeMbar 26.

On the 25th General Von Manteuffel, in the pur-
auit of the hostile Army of the North, reached
Albert, where prisoners were taken.

Before Paris the enemy to-day kept up an ineffec-
tive tire from the forts.

LILLE, December 27.

Corbie, Albert, and Acheux have been evacuated.
lans have cut the telegraph wires at Boileux.
General Faidherbe has cut the railway.
The Army of the North is concentrated around
Arras.

PROTEST BY CHANZY AGAINST GERMAN

OUTRAGES.

General Chanzy has sent the following communi-
eatit n—a protest against the outrages perpetrated
by the Germans—to the Prussian commandant at
Vendome
I am informed that violence, for which I can find
Ile language suitable to express my indignation, has
been resorted to by the troops under your command
against an innocent population at St. Calais, not-
Withstanding the good treatment of your sick
and wounded. Your officers have extorted money
and authorised pillage. This is an abuse of power
Which will weigh upon your conscience, though
Patriotism may enable our countrymen to bear it,
tut it cannot be permitted that you should ed to
this injury a gratuitous insult. You have alleged
that we are defeated. This is false. We have fought
and held you in check since the 4th of December.
You have dared to treat as cowards men who could
not answer you, pretending that they submitted to the
Will of the Government of National Defence in resist-
ing when they really wished for peace. lam justified in
Protesting against this statement by the resistance of
the whole of France, and by the resistance of the
army which up to the present time you have not
been able to conquer. We re-assert what our
Struggle. has already taught you; we shall struggle
On, conscious of our good right, and determined to
triumph at any cost. We shall struggle on a outrance,
Without truce or mercy. It is now no
,longer a question of fighting against a loyal enemy,
nut against devastating hordes, whose sole object is
the ruin and humiliation of a nation fighting for the
Preservation of its honour, its independence, and the
Xkaintenance of its rank. You reply to the genero-
sity with which we treat your prisoners and wounded
u3r insolence, by arson, and by pillage. I protest
With indignation in the name of humanity and the
law of nations, which you trample under foot."