The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-31
The Surrender of metZ-Bazalne's IntrIgues
Opposition To the capitalization.

LONDON, Oct oO.-iSpeclal 10 ny. IrtOune.
THE ARMY LAYS DOWN ITS ARMS.
On the Goth the forts were taken possession of
by the artillery of the 7th Corps. At O'clock
the Sd Division (Which will depart towards the
southwesD and the 4th Division were reviewed
in SPLENDID pageant by the Prince on the Nancy
Metz road, near Tour le- Brede. Thereupon the
(French) Imperial Guards marched out of Metz,
bearing their arms, which they subsequently laid
down at Frascati and passedin review before the
Prince. This honor was accorded to them alone.
All the rest laid down their arms in the Metz
arsenals, and then marched to their cantonmenL
outside the town, to await transportation. The
Imperial Guards were received by the Prussian
troops with respect; not Jeering syllable was
heard nor an Improperly exultant look seen.
Previously, at the Princes review of the Ger
man troops, the cheering was loud and long
continued.
At4P. NJ, the.French companies that were
still mounting guard at the various gates of
the city and at depots and arsenals were re-
lieved by Prussians, two regiments of infantry
and one of cavalry having entered the town.
The appointed military Governor General, Won
Zastrow, the commander of the Seventh Corps,
took possession and control of the city and for
tress, where, he tells me, he expects to fnd the
portrait of one of his ancestors who was at
some early period also a military Governor of
Metz.
BAzAINE's INTRIGUEs.
The tragedy was completed, but there is
another side TO the story which still remains to
be reviewed. According to the statement of
General Won Zastrow, who held the woods of
VauX on the morning of August 10 (after the
battle of Gravelotte), BaZaine could have
avoided being inclosed in Metz. After he was
thus inclosed, he could have, according TO
MetZian statement made a sOrtie and joined
MacMahon more easily by far than MacMahon
could reach him. After most of Bazaine's
cavalry and artillery horses had been eaten, this
proceeding was of course more difficult; still
his movements are said to have lacked deter
mination, and, in the last two sorties, to have
been even frivolous. This is charged to a plot
in behalf of the regency by which this army
was 10 try to remain in stdtu quo until the con-
clusion OF the war in western France and then
was to become available, with Prussian consent,
for Bonapartist purposes. Bazaine himself
expected in that case TO be the governor
OF the Prince Imperial and the virtual Regent
Nearly all the Metezians seem to believe this;
and their most influential people have avOWed
such belief to me. Since the time of the invest
ment BaZaine has>hever been seen in the
camps except on extraordinary occasions; never
at all in the ambulances which are in part con-
structed in numerous railway box-wagous on
the Place Royae. Equally seldom has he been
seen in the city. The civil authorities had to
find him at the Barriee ST. Martin; he did not
appear at the City Hall once. He rarely, If ever,
said word to encourage his troops. Canrobert
sometimes cheered their hardships a little and
then they would cry ViUe Cdnroberu A bas
Bdzaine!"
BAzAIHE FEARED HIS OWN MEN.
Towards the last be dared not show himself
to his Own nen for fear Of assassination, and th'