The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-10-01

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would h. nntblr e. disiarb ilie siege.
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atiaek. lfSt licns wls taken the
Gefman army could advance towsri
Moutraartro, upoa tl's eHee'sis
without being sposcd ta ilc ofo.s-
hfc from the outer furts II would
have nothing 70 leaf but The hre
eCning from the Seine
THE German army will simulta-
nccusly attack the three forts OF 81.
Dcni. aud Fort d'Auberrillicrs, or i
will attack, less seriously, the other
forts on the east side, The siege
will thus assume the character ot
,hat OF Scbastopol, aud the aggrcss-
ing operations will have to be under
taken ut the same time against a
line of Notifications several leagues
in length.
"St. Denis lies on the right bank
OF the Seine, which makes here
another bend and forms q sort OF
peninsula from which the works of
the bcsicging army could be taken
I in the flank and rear. Hence, it Is
necessary that the German troops
should occupy II. This occupation
is a difficult operations, but it is not
impossible if the German troops
cross the Seine in the neighborhood
of Argcntcuil.
"The besieging army will then be
able to observe the citadel Of Mont
Valerien, situated on the second pc
ninsula, destroy the communications
of the railroad on the left bank or
| the Seine with Paris, and cover the
assault on st. Denis. A bridge
thrown across the Seine would put it
| into communication with the troops
operating on the right bank of the
river"
In order to take Paris in this
! manner, the author OF the impor-
tant work from which we have
quoted says that an army of one
hundred and eighty thousand men
is required, and that the besicging
army would do well to bring with it
from Germany gunboats destined
to operate on the Seine, whereby
the movements of the troops would
be greatly facilitated. He assumes,
furthermore, that the. French will
have in the field large army, which
he calls tho Army of Succor, and
whose task it is to raise the siege,
In order to thwart the movements
of this French army in the field,
the author says, Germany would
have to send another army, the
| Army of Observation, which should
be one hundred and twenty thou
sand men strong, TO the neighbor-
hood of Paris, and another army,
one hundred thousand men strong
should penetrate through Switzer-
land into France, and approach
Paris from the Southeast,
Now, owing to the defeats OF
Marshals MCMAHON and BAzAINE,
there will be no French army in the
field ready to disturb the operations
Of the bssieging forces Of the Ger
mans; for it will take weeks, nay,
tmonths, before ths so-called Army
of Lyons will be in such a condition
4 as to be able to operate in the field
against the German armies; and i
the Notifications of Paris arc now
stronger than the author of the
above mentioned work supposed
they would be in the event Of O
siege, we should bear in mind that
AZ soon as Marshal BAzArNE has sur.
rendered his army, now pent up al
Metz--and that capitulation is only
a question OF time-the King o.
i Prussia will be able to concentrate
near six hundred thousand mei
around Parisr-Ciaeinnatti Commer
ciai. s.,