The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-12 00:00:00

PRUSSIA AND POSEN.

The Poles in Posen are waging a war of exterrn:
nation against the Prussians.

" The call to arms issued by blieroslawski," says the
Cologne Gazette, " has been universally responded to.
The towns and villages are deserted by all capable of
bearing arms, and left to the care of old men, women,
and children. The Poles have no head•quarters, but
keep constantly moving. In the last encounter with
General Hirschfeld they fought with a disregard of
death that was wonderful ; although they were exposed
to a raking fire from a battery of four guns loaded with
grape, and finally to the terrible carnage of sharpnell
shells and grenades charged with 150 bullets, they ad-
vanced undaunted over heaps of their own slain, and
finally broke through the Prussian ranks. No less
thon 460 Poles fell i❑ this battle, without counting the
wounded."

Since the fall of Xionz the Prussians have been
beat in every skirmish. The tactics of MlEausLAwsai
are peculiar, and puzzle the Prussian leaders, at the
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tional air, "Nock ist Polen Nicht verlorem." They
keep step to the air, and on the first volley of the
Prussian troops they fall on one knee, and then sud-
denly rising rush impetuously on the foe. This
struggle for the liberty which they had hoped from
Germany will be a war of extermination. Thirty-six
pieces of heavy artillery and numerous field batteries
are on the road, accompanied by grenades and rockets
to carry on the slaughter. On the evening of the sth,
heavy firing was heard in the neighbourhood of
Wimario, well as Fort Wilda, fired
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beaten in the streets of Posen, as it was reported that
the scythemen were advancing on the town.
The Preussische Staats Anzeiger gives the following
particulars of the fighting at Buck :
"Captain Boenigk entered Buck at half-past one
o'clock A.M., on the 4th inst. His force consisted of one
battalion of infantry. He found the place in the posses-
sion of a civic guard, who assured him of their desire to
maintain peace and order. Captain Boenigk quartered
his soldiers in thd town, and is said to have been careless
in his measures of precaution. He was surprised by the
insurgents about four oclock in the morning. The
soldiers were partly disarmed, and some of them mur-
dered by the citizens, in whose houses they were quar-
tered. All the officers were for a short time captives.
They were liberated by ten soldiers, most of them Poles,
who attacked the insurgents and drovo them back.
" Captain Boenigk then succeeded in rallying his men.
He drove the insurgents from the town, which he occu-
pied till eleven o'clock in the morning, when he received
information that fresh bands of insurgents were march-
ing upon Buck. Upon this he evacuated the town and
retired to Prinn. Six soldiers were killed, and sixteen
wounded. One man's e 3
'es were thrust out by the
insurgents in the morning. He died during the night.
" An orderly from Buck informed Major Breetz at
Griitz of these events, who sent off one company of foot
to assist Captain Boenigk. About ten o'clock informa-
tion was received at Gratz that Buck was occupied by
the insurgents, and that the troops were either killed
or taken. Major Breetz collected all his available forces
and marched upon Buck. Being reinforced on the road
by the company that had preceded him, he approached
the town, where he did not find that obstinate resistance
he had been led to expect. His entrance was chiefly
opposed by the priest of the place, who beaded a party
of scythemen. He was killed in doing so. The insur-
gents sacked Buck before they left it; the booty was
carried off by women who accompanied them. The
greater part of the inhabitants of Buck have fled.
"The insurgents are spreading in all directions. This
is no longer a war; it is downright butchery. Blood for
blood is its motto. The insurgents of Stenszewo are
the same
length
eEs :wh o surprised Buck. They were led by Colonel
Niezolewski. Eugen von Ssczanicky, whom we cap-
tured,wtha es a onerr carried. of
the
attack upon our troops."
leaders, and very active in the
The following account of the battle of Miloslaw is
given by a Polish officer, in a letter to General
‘
" The Prussian artillery opened its fire upon the town,
and the battle commenced at 11 A.M. The town, at-
tacked first first by two and then by two more battalions, was
a
Count Nlidsynski's palace was plun-
dereda"
he slightly wounded. In the meantime,
Garez. ynski hastened to our support from Neustadt,
whereupon and took the palace and stormed
defended the church, now
well as the wholin
e town, was soon ourbands
.again.
But the Prussians also reformed, attacked, and under
cover of a heavy ire of •
artillery, drove us into the neigh-