The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-11-28
War Notes.

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A sharp engagement occurred at Demuin on
Tuesday. Two French battalions attacked a
force Of 1900 Prussians who were entrenched
at that point and had three cannon. The
Prussians were routed and driven as far as
Quesnel. s323fs9@
Reports have been received at Berlin from
time to time announcing that large bodies of
citizens, aud in some instances regular troops
of the garrison at Paris, have come to the
Prussian outposts and offered to surrender, but
were invariably turned back
Steamer Erie, formerly of Boston, is ready
to sail from New York for France with 115,0CO
Springfield muskets.
The latest story from Paris is that there is
subsistence enough for two and half months
bread sufficient for eight months and wine and
brandy for year. Time will decide the truth
of these food reports better than Geographic
dispatches.
There are rumors of sortie from Paris on
Friday and fight at Montargis; but they come
through the New York World.
The Prussans are reported to have fired on
the people who were gathering their crops in
the suburbs of Paris and approached too near
the RUSSIAN lines. .
ANOTHER INTERVIEW WITH BIsMARcK.-The
following account OF an interview with Bis
marck comes from the New York World:
In reply to question relative to the cam
paign against Paris, Bismarck said "The cap
ture of Paris is clamored for and must be ac-
complished sooner or later to satisfy the folks
at home. Had my counsel been followed Paris
would have been attacked long ago." when
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the victories of Weisseburg and Worth emerg-
ed from Vosges and marched towards Chalons,
Won Moltke decided that they should come up
and help to annhilate the army SO hurriedly
abandoned at Chalons l urged that they
should be ordered to continue their march on
Paris, then unprepared for siege, and take it
or at least cut it off from the rest of France,
which should then be overrun as quickly as
quickly as possible. When the department of
the Seine was reached it was found nut hard
ment, of which intention to open the secret
park of artillery at Villa Coubla was complete
proof. This measure urged but now came a
new disagreement The King under the ad-
vice of Won Moltke, decided to let famine re-
duce the capital, trusting that discords among
the Parisians would contribute to hasten the
surrender. s .a.-l5.t s
Correspondent-Bu this plan was universal
ly supposed to be your own. Jazz rt
Bismarck-So far is that opinion from truth,
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ing no longer made party to councils wherein
great questions were decided. In 1866 no i'm
portant proposition was decided without asking
my advice. Nov there are great changes,
whole plans are adopted without consulting
me, while popular disapproval falls upon me-
Those who say that it is my fault that Paris has
not been bombarded are wholly in error.
most ardently desired it and most strenuously
urged it.
Correspondent-But you have the satisfac-
ton of having accomplished the uniication of
Germany.
Bismarck-Ah! no. I attribute hating and
partial failureof the attempt for German unityto
inc IN delayresulting from these opposing schemes.
d d al my advice been followed, the people of
Bavaria and Wurtemburg would have been
carried in on the wave which swept over Ger
many and the grand scheme of United Vater-
land and Deutcher Kaiser would have become
reality, instead of half hearted confederation
now about to be born. For me the great OBJ
iect of the war never lay on this side of the
Rhine. but on the other side where / meant
should exist one great country, one great peo-
pie, and one great Emperor.