The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-20
NOTES OF THE WAR.
A CIRCLE OF DETACHED FORTS.

A CIRCLE OF DETACHED FORTS.
The Pail NdU Gazette saws modern warfare has
shown in more than one instance the value of en-
trencheo camps formed by a circle of detached
forts, with the main fortress for its nucleus. Man.
tua, by its position was an entrenched camp, so was
Dantzic, more or less, in 1907, and these two were
the only fortresses which ever arrested Napoleon l.
Again, in 1918, DaDtzc was enabled by it's detached
forts-feld works for the most part-to offer pro-
longed resistance. The whole OF Radetzkys cam
paign in lS49 in LoDbardy hinged the entrenched
camp of Verona itself the nucleus of the Celebrated
Quadrilatera; so did the whole of the Crimean war
depend on the entrenched camp OF Sebastopol,
which held out 80 long merely because the Allies
were unable to invest 1t on all sides and cat Off sup
plies and renforcements from the besieged.
RAPID RECOVERY OF WOUNDED.
We read in letter from Metz 1.-THE head doc.
tor in charge of the wounded at Gravelotte informs
me that in no war upon record have the wounded
to. their duty. This he accounts for by the very
small and clean wounds that the chassepot outlet
let has touched bone it has been diverted from its
course and has taken a diagonal direction A
other hand the needle bullet makes a fearful
wound, and the Prussian shells, cased as they are
with lead to take the grooves still worse"
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.
Writing of the Prince Imperial, the London corres-
pondent of the Scotsman says:-'"Three or four
years ago he was in very delicate condition. A
disease OF the ankle bones and other rather alarming
symptoms appeared / saw him almost daily at
Biarritz at this time, and when he was playing with
young Conneau on the terrace OF the chateau It was
easy TO see how he limped, and when he went out
into the town he always rode In carriage even
great physical fatigue and anxiety to which the poor
boy has of late been subject have produced some
indications of recurrence of the old disorder, and
hence the visit to Hastings"
THE FALLEN EMPEROR.
The London Post contends that the Imperial
family of France has at this moment title OF no
common kind to the good wishes and friendly esti-
nation Of Engshmen. That the Emperor in gov
ernng a most mpracticable and impusive people,
not denied but who that remembers the France of
1s4s and compares 1t with the France of the early
national prosperity which, under the rule OF Napo-
leon III, the Empire has made? And if now his
mas gone e opSe Of ~ 80
| inherent defects in his own discharge of his eX-
TOO MANY PRISONERS.
The Pail Mall Gazette says the Prussians must be
beginning TO feel rather uncomfortable at the num-
ber of French prisoners they have their hands To
| say nothing OF the trouble OF guarding them, the
expense of feeding them must add considerably to
the cost of the war; II the French really wished to
annoy their invaders to the utmost degree they per-
| haps could not put them in more embarrassing
condition than by forming army after army and ca
pitulating as fast as they formed There ought not
| to be much diffeulty in carrying out this plan.
Very little training as soldier Is necessary to make
good prisoner is there any occasion to be par
ticular as to age, height, or general soundness.
They have only to go on calling out the men of all
| ages until they reach those between seVenty-dye
and eighty-five II they can muster some thousands
of these, and get them hemmed in by the Prussians
they may afford to laugh at their foes.
| YOUTHFUL TROOPS
| The Pail Mall Gazette remarks:-''No one can help
being struck with the youthful and undeVeloped ap-
peaTance of the regulars aud the very unwieldy ee-
ments of which many battalions OF the French
National Guard are Composed. Some of the re-
spectacle battalions march and look well enough
parade, but the battallons just organized and taken
from quarters OF the town notorlously disafected
to the recent Government, are little more than
rabble. It is curious to see gate OF the Tuierie'
guarded by votigeur of the guard on one side
and an armed citizen in blouse on the other. What
ever the late Imperial Guard may inwardly think, il
has followed the popular movement and offered ur
its eagles ON the altar OF freedom"
THE FRENCH 'TURCos"
The Baron Henry voA Nathan, the well-knowI
African traveller, writes from Tripoli to the AUge
meme Zeitung as folows:-
81 am daily readingsn the newspapers accounts o
the dreadful crueties committed by the Turc0s upoI
the wounded German prisoners. am not at al
astonished at these reports. The Turcos for tn
most part consist OF inhabitants of the Caboul, wei
known as the most brutal and ferOciOus nation o
| the North African tribes. In the CabOul campaig
| OF 1851 the captured French prisoners had thei
| limbs torn from them and the wounded had thei
eyes plucked out and their noses and cut of b
the women Of Caboul and every manly heart mus
be filed with indignation TO lind that the French
who call themselves civilized nation, should en-
ploy such bloodthirsty men, whose instincts ar
well known to them, in war against another ciyi
lied nation, and hound them on against the Gel
mans. But the day OF reckoning does not seem ia
distant"
NEW GERMAN EMPIRE.
Leipsic letter in the Paris ConstutonneI SAYS :
81 have just seen in booksellers window here th
new map OF the German Empire ('Dle Karte d(
Deutchen Reiches.) 1t absorbs in FrBnce, Lo
! raine, Alsace, and Franche-Comte; the line the
| leaves the Doubs, and passes In Switzerland b.
| tween Berne and Frlburg, borders st. GOthard G
the south, and crosses the Alps to Trieste when,
D 1t remounts by Gratz and Vienna TO the confines
through Austria all the territory west OF that lin
: | To the north nothing is changed Only the color
q the German provinces belonging to Russia is q