The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-14 00:00:00

THIONVILLE ON FIRE.

Some travellers who arrived at Arlon on the 12th
State that Thionville had been heavily bombarded by
by the Germans, and that the greater part of the
City was in flames.

THE BATTLE AT ORLEANS.
BERLIN, November 13 (2.20 p.m.)
General Podbielski telegraphs from the Royal
Read-quarters at Versailles that General Von
der Tann on the 9th instant, repulsed all
the attacks of the enemy with great loss before
he retreated.
At mid-day on the 10th a division of the artillery
reserve, with two guns, loit its way, and was cap-
tured by the French.
No later movement of the Loire army has been
reported.

The following French telegram differs from the
ahovA
•w :--

TOURS, November, 13 (6 p.m.)
The battle of the 9th was a decided success. The
German loss was at least 5,000.
The conduct of the Mobiles was very great.
The moral effect has been very good.
Prisoners are arriving, and reinforcements have
gone up.
Gambetta has returned.

TILE SIEGE OF PARIS.

BERLIN, November 11.

The French have armed their new redoubt at Ville-
uif 22 heavy guns, and are constructing another
redoubt between Villejuif and Vitry.

In front of these redoubts are trenches and rifle-
Pits; the whole being a fac simile of Totleben's
eelebrated defences at Sebastopol.
Liberal papers dissuade the Government from
summoning the Federal Parliament to meet at Ver-
%Wes, as the members would scarcely consent to go
thither.

Npvember 12.

After the arrival of General Wittich, Prince
Albrecht, and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg,
Von der Tann's army amounts to nearly 70,000
ken.

The Loire army opposed. to it is probably some-
What stronger,. but has only 12,000 regulars..

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A. battle is expected unless the French retreat.

To-day one of the leading bankers of Berlin was
arrested' on a charge of high treason, for sub-
Beribing to the French war loan.
The blown-up tunnel at Nanteuil, on the Paris and
trasburg line, which was in course of reconstruc-
tion, has fallen in again.

DEPARTURE OF ENGLISH SUBJECTS
FROM PARIS;

VERSAILLES, November 11.

Mr. Wodehouse, who, ..,withs a convoy of British
84bjects, was allOWed to..leave Paris by the German
44thorities, arrived here last:night. Some of them
Were,in distress. •

-They report that provisions were short. The al-
lowance of fresh meat was 50 gre mines a day to
each person.
The British prisoners taken.- n a balloon near
Verdun will be sent to a -Prussian fortress and tried
,
court-martial.
The weather is cold and snowy:.
General Moltke has issued' very strict orders re-
ElPecting the bearers of the Geneva Cross.

DECISION RESPECTING THE -
BOMBARDMENT.
• BRUSSELS, November 13.
According to very.. trustworthy information Paris
cannot hold out for more than three,. weeks. 'lt is,
therefore, intended to trust to hunger for the sur-
render of the city, and no bombardment will now
take place: . • • • .

WAR ITEMS FROM TOURS.
Nothing further had reached Tours up to the
evening of the 10th inst. relaiive to the engagement
4 Orleans, further than the arrival of 400 of the
Bavarian prisoners. The French journals say the
64g4hng
t was most desperate, especially at Coulmiers
d
ißaccon.
The Germans loss in killed and wounded since the
7
th is put down at no less than 10,000.

General Werder, with his army, proposes to effect
a junction with General von der Tann.

The expected visit of the Germans to the
Eastern provinces will take place, it is believed, by
11$Y of Chalons, vid Seurre and Clergy. Chagny will
be avoided. On the first signal of their approach all
the bridges on the Rhone will be destroyed.
The Government have ordered the formation of a
Camp of Instruction at Toulouse for the formation
of s'L an army of the South West.

According to the official announcement, the
1111rnber of prisoners taken at Orleans on the oth and
10th amounts to 2,500 men.
The Moniteur says the greatest barbarity has
been exhibited by the Prussian army. Wounded
801diers at Chateauden were thrown from the win-
dows of the house's in which they were lodged, and
I,°lne peasants had been shot for working on the
l'elich entrenchment.

,Ministerial despatch from Evreux announces
that 800 Prussians have arrived at Etrysaguy. The
Prussian strength between G isors and Pointoise is
'titnated at 4,000 men, with ten guns.