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Oafechized by a Oorfespondent-Hts
TROUBLES with Won noltIke-How
Paris Could Have Been Taken
L.nst Angust--German Unity the
object OF the War. f
LONDON, Nov. ga special CORES :
pondent Of theWorld, who left Versailles
on the 2lst, brings the following report
of an interview had with Bismarck on
that day:
Correspondent-Wh is the explana-
ton of the great dissatisfaction expressed
in Germany at the plan of the campaign,
especially in relation to Paris @
Bismarck-The capture of Paris is
clamored for, and it must be accomplished
sooner or later to satisfy the folk at
home. Respecting the time and means
for effecting this, public opinion is widely
astray. 1t bestows animadversion IN
Justly. Had my counsel been followed,
Paris would have been attacked long ago.
Correspor dent-Your Excellency says
that your counsels were overruled.
Bismarck-When the forces led by
Gen. Won Blumenthal after the victories
of Wessembourg and Woerth, emerged
from the Vosges and marched toward
Ohalons, where the cavalry under Prince
Albrecht stood, Gen. Won Moltke decided
that they should come up and help to an
initiate the army so hurriedly abandoned
at Chal0ns. urged thai they should be
ordered 10 continue their march on Paris,
which was unprepared for siege, and
take it, or at least cut it off from the rest
of France which should then be oYerrun as
quickly as possible. When the Depart
ment of the Seine was reached, it was
found nut hard 10 crack. Then there
was new question, how was the kernal
to be catchedl First, we determined on
bombardment, of the intention to open
which the secret park of artillery at Villa
Corblay was complete proof. This mea>
sure urged, but now came new disa-
greement. The King, under the advice
of Won Moltke, decided on famine to re-
duce the capital, trusting that discord
among the Parisians would contribute to
hasten the surrender. az.
Cor.-But this plan was universally
supposed 10 be your own.
Bismarck.-So far is that opinion from
the truth that l now ceased todisguise my
Indignation at being no longer made
party to councils where great questions
were decided. In 1866 the important
propositions were decided without asking
my advice. Now there are great changes,
whole plans are adopted without consult
ing me, while the popular disapproval
falls on me. Those who say it is my
fault that Paris has not been bombarded
are wholly in error. l have most ardent
" desired and enormously urged it. I
Cor.-But at least you have the salts
faction of having accomplished the unfit
cation of Germany.
Bismarck-Ah, no; attribute the halt
ing and partial failure of the attempt for
German unity to the delay resulting from
these opposing schemes. Had my advice
been followed, the people of Bavaria aud
Nurtemburg would have been carried in
on the wave which swept over Germany,
and the grand scheme of united Water
land and Deutscher Kaiser would have be-
come reality, instead of the half-heaTted
Confederation now about to be born. For
me, the great object Of the war never lay
on this side of the Rhine, but on the other
side, where / meant there should exist one
great country, one great people and one
great Emperor.
This extraordinary conversation was
held under peculiar circumstances, which
cannot now be stated, but have given
almost the exact words used by the Chan
cellor.