The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-06
THE BATTLES BEFORE PARIS
TEleeaAms TO the NEW YORK HERALD.

THE BATTLES BEFORE PARIS.
TELEeaAMs TO the NEW YORK HERALD.
No Further Attempt to Force the Prussiau
Lines-Thc French Massing Near CrcteiI-
Gums and Men Commissioned Ducrot
Still Holding His Positions-Losses Of the
saxons and Wurteu,bergers.
LONDON, Dec. s, 1870.
Advices from Paris have been received up TO q
late hour Sunday night. There had been ne further
attempt to force the Prussian lines.
THE FRENCH AAssING AT CRErETI.
A telegram from Versailles, Of to.days date, re.
ports that the French have been driven from che
Willy and have abandoned Champigny sur Marine.
They are now masslng near Creteil.
The cold is intense and the troops suffer severely
from exposure.
FRENCH GUNS AND SOLDIERS CAPTURED.
A Versailles despatch OF sunday evenings Date
reports that the French before vincennes have
been reinforced.
In the fight Of Friday General Treskow's division
took from the French seven guns. They also cap
tured 1900 prisoners, including one general and
two other on1cers.
GENERAL DuCRor NOT DRIVEN PROM THE MARINE.
Tours advices declare that the Parisians are sue
cessfully holding their own, and that tho movement
Of Paladines continues. General Ducrot was not
driven from the field on Thursday; on the contrary
his army have gained an importan threatening DO.
sition on the east bank Of the Marne
LOSSES OF THE SALONS.
The losses sustained by the Saxons IN the battles
around Paris from November 80 to December 2
are estimated Of absnt /, 800 men. Four regiments
Of the Saxon forces-the 104th, 1odth, 1o7th and
1Osth-lost fifteen officers killed and sixty-three
wounded. The total number Of French prisoners
taken was about 1900.
LOSS OF THE wURTEMBERGERs.
despatch from Stuttgart, dated TO day. states
that the total loss sustained by the Nuremberg
troops in the battle OF the I'd inst near Paris, Is
officially reported TO be s4s killed and wounded.
SEVERITY OF WEDNESDAYS ENGAGEMENT.
A correspondent telegraphs from Versailles on the
I'd inst that the fighting OF the 3Uh was as hard as
any during the whole war. The French consider
that they won partial triumph, because they took
one hundred German prisoners and occupied
positions lar in advance Of their former line
Of outp0sts in the sortIe between the
Seine and the Marne The French had an over
wheming force. The Wurtembergers lost 700 men
in killed and wounded, but retook much OF their
lost ground. The prisoners taken were all Saxons.
The French IN the sorre employed four whole divi-
sions. No efforts could wholly drive them back.
Details Of the Sorties-victory for the
French-The Captured Positions Still Held
German Losses--Opinion Of "a German Of
6cOr-The Inyenfuu Line EuIn rUed
LONDON, Dec. s. 1870.
courier arrived from Versailles on the night OF
the Sd with details OF the fighting OF the 30th OF No.
vember and I'd Of December.
THE CAPTURED POSITIONS STILL HELD BY THE
FRENCH.
The French now hold the line from Brle to Cham
pigny, stretching across the neck OF the peninsula
formed by the bend Of the Marne.
DETAILS OF THE FIGHTING.
At seven O'Clock on the morning OF the "a the
Plussian Second and Eleventh corps, with three
brigades Of wurtembergers, attacked Brie ana
Champgny, capturing the former and part OF the
latter. At ten O'Clock the French advanced TO re.
gain these positions and the battle ragged for six
hours, when sthe Prussans were driven out OF both
Brle and Champigny, and We're repulsed also nom
the posi- ions OF V1iliers and ConcIlly; the latter,
however finally remaining in the possession OF the
Germans.
FRENCH SUCCESSES NORTH OF THE cry
On the north the French also hold Genneviilie "a
and Epinay, which were captured on the s0h by the
Germans.
GERMAN CASUALTIES.
The losses of the Germans during the two days.
fighting were $500, as follows:-rhe Saxons. 1000;
the Second corps. $500; the WGrtembergers, ,7oo
Tie French losses not known.
OPINION OF A GERMAN OFFICER.
A German officer AT Versailles said TO our corre-
spondent that "Trochu afford to lose six TO our
three, and II he goes on in this fasnisn we sh all all
be used mp, while he viii have 1000 left.
THE GERMAN LINE ENLARGED.
The German line on the southeast Is considerably
lurIher back than before these engagements.