The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-24
THE WAR.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES.

BAzAINE's GREAT MOvEMENT-HE CUTS HIS WAY
OUT OF METZ AND ARRIVES AT MoNTMEDY =
THE GREAT BATTLE OF GRAvELoTrE-A sPLEN-
DID PIECE OF DESCRIPTION.
LONDON, August 23.-The details of the
battle of August 18, at Graveotte, are still
wanting, even at Berlin.
German dispatches are meagre to-day, but
from them we gather that the military situa-
tion is as follows: The 18th Prussian corps is
now between Metz and Thionvie, and serves
to keep up communication between Prince
Frederick Charles and General Stenmetz. The
fortress of Metz is inclosed on all sides. The
communication between Chalons (Metz?) and
Paris are cut off, and the headquarters of the
Grown Prince are at Bar la-Duc. Mcmahon
and Failly are still retreating to cover Paris
The following statement from a semi official
source foreshadows the demands likely to be
made by Prussia in case ofa successful termi-
nation of the war: ssThe time has arrived
when Germany must be freed from French in
reference and menaces, and have a long Pc
riod of unbrOken peace. A mere change in
the dynasty of France would not be sufficient
to insure this, for the next sovereign would
seek, as soon as possible, to secure the lost
military prestige of France, and the burdens Of
an armed peace would be perpetuated.
BERLIN, August 23.-The German forces in
France have undergone partial reorganiz-
alton, and, as reinforced and redistributed,
will go into battle in the following orders First
army, under General Steinmetz, composed of
the lst, 7tb, 8th and 9th Prussian army corps,
amounting in all to 100, 900 infantry and 2S, 900
cavalry.
Second army under Prince Frederick Charles,
composed of the I'd, Sd, 4th, 10th and 18th
Prussian army corps; corps of Prussan guards;
Royal Saxon corps, and a division of the
Grand Duchy of Hesse. This is the strongest
of the three armies, and contains forty-eight
regiments of infantry, with three batteries OF
artillery each, and thirty -four regiments of in
fantry, with two batteries each, and thirty
four regiments of cavalry. Aggregate in round
numbers 220,0 900 men and 600 guns.
Third army corps, commanded by the Grown
Prince, composed of I'd Bavarian army corps
under Generals Tam and Hartman, containing
each regiments of infantry, 8. battalions o.
rifemen and regiments of cavalry, one mixed
corps of Baden and Wurtemburg troops, under
General VanW erder, and composed of 8 regi
ments of infantry, 2 battalions of rihemen, 4 re
giments of cavalry, and batteries of artillery
belonging to Wurtemburg, and six regiments
OF infantry and three Of cavalry, eight bate
ries of artillery, belonging to Baden, and tn,
9th and 18th Prussian army corps, containing
the 10th infantry and 10th cavalry regiments
and thirty batteries of artillery. Total o
German forces in France 100000 men, divided
into sixteen army corps. UP to this tim
100000 of the landwehr have entered Alsac
and Lorraine, to invest and occupy places il
the rear, and relieve the regular soldiers o
those duties, so that they may join their ow
regiments in the front. Orders have bee
issued TO disband the veteran reserves, whic
we're called out at the commencement of III
war.
LOHDOS, August 23.-Lsgecial to the NeN