The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-20
THE SITUATION.

ayhe Latest Advices from the Scene OF Slaush-
ter The Great Battle of Thursday ut Recon-
vile-BaZaine's Grand strategy and Its
Complete Defeat. ..rr-
''The ground between Metz and Verdun,'
\ bays Paris despatch of last night, has been
CONSTANT scene OF carnage since Sunday" This
6 the sum and substance of the voluminous
3hespatches from the seat Of war which have
been published during the last few days. For
the reliable details of this succession OF battles
we shall oe obliged to wait patiently for some
lays yet Marshal Bazaine, according to the
Paris Goulois "awaits sure resuHs before he
Eelegraphs his successes from which we are to
Infer that, despite the boasts of recent
French victories, success is not yet
Fnre. Fighting is still going on, says another
Paris despatch, but Bazaine will only send a
eport when the result is certain" SO, notwith-
Standing that Paris is roaring the .Marseillaise,"
and all Ireland resounds with the echo Paris is
OF yet advised in an authoritative way that the
week now drawing TO a close has witnessed an
Uninterrupted series of Prussan, Iepulses in the
regular qpadilateral boundedby Metz, Deulou-
rt Commercy, and Verdun.
The battle OF "wednesday.
No tidipgs have as yet been received of an
Encounter yesterday. The latest intelligence in
= act nights dispatches from the neighborhood
4 pf the scene of operations was dated at Verdun
! bn the evening of Wednesday, the 18th. This
|4e highly colored account from Marshal Ba-
laine himself of the battle of that day, which
asted from morning until nightfal. Previous
reports have located the scene of the conflict
pear Mars-la-Tour, a small town directly
1 west of Metz and twelve miles distant. The
tespatch just referred to states that the action
anne off in the neighborhood of the town of
lezonVille, the exact locality of which cannot
be defined. 1t is probably within few mile3 OF
Metz, and on the road between that fortress and
Yerduu. Owe have" says Marshal Bazaine,
everywhere held our positions, and have in
cted heavy losses on the enemy" But he
Idds significantly, ''our loss is serious" All
|'the reports thus far received of Wednesday s
fighting come from French sources, and are
wherefore TO be taken with some allowance.
French.
But whatever may have been the result OF
Wednesdays encounter, the despatch published
under our Second Edition head concerning the
[Nbattle of Thursday, coming from King William
tn person and bearing upon its face evidence OF
IT'S reliability, lends credence to the statement
4 contained in the London Times of yesterday
morning that the French army has been cut in
J two and the bulk of it driven in upon Metz thus
leaving the road 10 Chalons and Paris almost un-
Rp' structed King Wjlhams despatch, which is
addressed TO the Queen of Prussia, is dated
Near Rezonvile, Aug. ~, 8 P. NJ" and states
that the French army was attacked that day
west of Metz, and, after combat lasting nine
hours, totally routed, broeoa back oe Metz, and
ats Communications 1oih Paris destroyed. A
despatch from Munich, the capital of Bavaria,
dated at o'clock last evening, speaks OF a
bloody battle having occurred between Grave
lotte (six miles west of Metz) and Rezonville
yesterday the result being the same as that
given in King Williams despatch. The Mu-
/ pich despatch probably refers to the
! encounter OF the day before, as
Communications with the front have been SC
eardy of late as to render Thursday the latest
time up to which intelligence could be received.
HarshaI BazaIne's Grand - strateglcal Hove
The result OF the battle on Thursday is to
finally render abortiYe Bazaines strategical
movement" about the importance and success
YNof which we have heard so much from French
sources of late. From Sunday morning
1 to Thursday night he has been
J battling for . possession Of the road
Metz and Verdan. TO enable him &c
J transfer his army from the former TO the latter
point and he has fought in vain. When Mac
| Mahon on Saturday last eyaeuated Nancy, tht
/ line of the Moselle was rendered useless fol
offensive operations, and worse than useless, al
the result has shown, for defense. AS soor
Therefore as Bazaine became the Vir
tual commaader-in.chief, he deter
mined upon the abandonment of tht
| line of the Moselle, and his ultimate purpose
appears 10 have been TO make no determined
Kstand either on the line Of the Meuse or on the
! xta+ao,, ~ tha ArgOnrea hut after RetLlr0 hi,