The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-30

10 make sure Inat the enemy na0 StOppeu MS
retreat on the northern route. The combat
which ensued was long and terrible. On the
left guards and Saxon troops fought at st.
Marie, st. Privat and Doncourt Meanwhile
the other wing was engaged near st. All, La
Cuisse, Wand and Verneville, as far as the
north side of the northern road from Metz to
Verdun.
The 9Th and 9th corps participated in the ac-
tion of Gravelotte, and the contest spread from
Vaux to Mosee, where a brigade of the 81
and 10th, with artillery, were engaged with the
entire French army, McMahon's corps and
Failly's division excepted. t~~N-r
After sundown the Prussians took the
heights by storm, Singing back the French
along their entire line to the shelter of Metz.
LONDON, August 29.-[Special to New York
Tribune. Our correspondent writes from
Rethel on Friday; The Emperor left early
this morning. He was cheered in the streets.
We start tomorrow for Meziores. At two
O'Clock this afternoon troops were still filing
out. Part are ordered to Attigny and others
to Doncourt. The main body is still moving
on Mezieres.
The correspondent of the Tribune with the
Crown Princes headquarters, writes from
Nancy, on the 10Th, that while General Stein
metz anG Prince Frederick Charles have done
well on the right of the main French army,
the Crown Prince has occupied a more threat
ening position on the right of the whole
French position. Unless Failly can quickly
muster sufficient force to cover central and
southern France, the empire will be exposed
to imminent danger in regions quite unpre-
pared for defence. Once relieved from the
possibility of a movement northward, the
Crown Prince can do pretty much as he likes
in other quarters. 1t is true, masses of the
National Garde and French reserves will soon
be marching against him; but, without train
ing, without proper equipments, and many of
them without breech-loaders, they must go.
down before the German armies.
The situation near Metz cannot be better
summed up than by saying the French armies
are more than matched by the first and second
Prussian armies, and If these armies should
win, though only by hairbreadth, the Prus-
SLAMS and their southern allies in the third
army could do what they pleased with central
France. ..r
The smaller French fortresses are making
gallant resistance. Pfalzburg is already ia
nous for holding out so obstinatey. Toul
has just successfully repelled a somewhat
| serious attack, and there seems to have been a
| mistake as to the condition of the place for
defence.
Yesterday mornings attack was met with
great vigor by the French garrison. They did
| not venture to a sortie to follow up their ad-
vantage, but inflicted loss on their assailants
with, as far as we know, very little loss to
themselves.
The peasants do not suffer what is techni-
cally called the horrors of war. Young girls
stand at their cottage doors in villages, or on
the street corners, to see the soldiers pass,
and are not molested by them. Shops open
in towns are not plundered; peaceful citizens
60 about their business without fear for life or
limb. But fruit and vegetables are taken
along the wayside; horses are pressed into the
service; soldiers are quartered on the people,
and large supplies of food are demanded from
the local authorities.
The same correspondent, under date of the
oath, writing from the Crown Princes head
quarters at Vaucouleurs, says: While there
seemed to be chance that Napoleon might
win near Metz, 1t was necessary to hold the
third army in readiness to march northward.
So while battles were raging near Metz, this
army lay about Nancy and Luneville, halt
expecting to be ordered up to support the
other German armies.
Then come news of the defeat of the French
by Steinmetz and Prince Frederick Charles.
There was no longer need to hesitate about
invading central France, and the march was
commenced, of which you will soon hear the
results There is a straight aNd rapid march
of the third army, supported by other troops
Without giving details of the movements
flushed with victory, and splendidly organ
ized, are about to break UP the quarters of the
French. (n " te
Three or four columns are marching abreast
on the same roads. Two go by the road it.
self, and sometimes two more through fields
to the right and left, or at least one Other
column. 1t is remarkable how well the
columns are directed, how carefully they
choose their routes, though invading pro
vince like Pfalzburg.
Toul is a point of resistance, but not rally
ing point for the surrounding people. Tht
fortress is held, and the enemy passed OF
without troubling himself to capture it. The
French simply retreat clear out of reach wheI
they do not mean to fight in earnest, and leave
open towns and villages to be quietly occupied
by the advancing foe.
The same Tribune correspondent writes from
, the same place on the 22d: Everything
will turn on what the French recruits can do
No time will be given to train them. Their
is a rapid concentration of troops under tn
Grown Prince moving on Chaons, and ampl
force to watch Metz. Masses of the landweh
are marching by every road between the Rhn
and Meuse. Pfalzburg will be left TO the land
wehr to besiege, so will Bitche and probabl
Strasburg. The whole active army of Ger
many will be available to blockade Metz an
capture Paris.
.. The New York Tribune's correspondent
! writing from Paris Sunday evening, says
| ssThe intolerance of certain Journals is revolt
, ing. The GaulOis proposes that women no
wearing mourning in the streets be insulted
The Figaro complains that there have bee
: only 1000 arrests. The prefect of police say
there is room for no more in the prisons. Th
FigarO replies: sIfy you cannot lodge all Prus
sian spies shoot them, and you will hay
room' AS a sequence of the recent sugges
, tion the same journals propose to supply tn