Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-04
WAR NEWS.

Tours, Oct. GA dispatch to the
Ministry from Beaune announces thar
the Prussians have occupied Dion. The
Prussians were twelve thousand strong,
and well provided with artillery. They
attacked the city at 9 o'clock in the
forenoon of Sunday. and the lombard
ment continued till nearly night-fall.--
The town was-not fortified, and the
commander of the French, not able to
resist with his small force, was compel
led to retreat.
VERSAILLES, Oct. 3o-Formal notice
of the capitulation of Metz has been
sent to Paris under a flag of truce. The
King of Prussia has announced his de-
termination to Immediately lombard the
city. He considers the enormous num-
Der of prisoners who must invariably be
subject to the privations of hunger and
suffering, consequent upon the long siege
Of Metz, would, under these circum-
stances, be more mercifully dealt with
by forcing an entry into Paris, and be a
proper tribute of respect to those who
fought best for France. Large numbers
of reenforcements of Prussian troops
have reached the investing lines to-day.
LONDON, October .3I-The news from
headquarters before that city, is quite
captured report that the troops behind
the Notifications receive only half a
pound of meat twice a week.
A Cologne dispatch, of the 3oth, says
Prussia and the North German Confed-
Grafton have furnished 74O, 900 troops
for the present war, and the States of
Germany sII6, 900. Nearly all are now
on French soil. They are expected to
complete the conquest of Paris in a
short winter campaign.
THE MEN AND MUNITIONS CAPTURED
AT METZ.
The Metz capitulation includes 81 in
fantry regiments, I3 battalions of foot
chasseurs, I8 foot and depot battalions,
and SO cavalry regiments. namely; 10
cuiuassiers, guide, II Dragons, Ian
GERS, 3 hussars, 8 chasseurs, and 8 Chas-
seurs d Antique also 6 squadrons. II5
field batteries, II batteries of mitrail-
leuses, 90 eagles belonging to the in
fantry, of which were two formerly taken
at Mars la Tour, and So cavalry eagles.
Including the garrison, the surrendered
army originally comprised 22I battalions
of infantry and I62 squadrons of horse.
The original numerical strength was
2Io,o 900 infantry and 2I,4so cavalry, 600
~ Besides the
three Marshals, Bazaine, Canrobert and
LeBoeuf, and three corps commanders,
Frossard, Decaen. and L'Admirault,
there are forty division generals and one
hundred Brigadiers. Ninety thousand
of the sound prisoners have been sent
to North Germany. The sick and
wounded have been distributed in the
same proportion.
BERLIN, Oct. ga report is current
here that an attempt was made yester-
day, at Versailles, on the life OF KING
William. The King was unhurt, but
General Room, who stood near, was
wounded.
THE SURRENDER OF METZ AND THE
QUESTION OF BAzAINE's rRRAcHERY.
LONDON, Nov. 1st.-The Indepen-
dence Beige, at Brussels, derives from
an officer who escaped from Metz, and
from the Moselle independence, pub
lished at Metz at the time Of the entry
of the German troops, the fact that the
French leaders to the last deceived the
army " FAOlAiAS-9 ~ 81 SNAs " -A-~
place. These promises were solemnly
repeated. even while negotiations for the
surrender were pending.
The independence Beige says Gam
beta was unqucstionably right in charg
ing Bazaine with high treason. The
population Of Metz were unanimous in
denouncing Bazaine as a traitor. After
the caPitulation had been agreed upon,
the people followed the Marshal through
in his ears.
At Tours the news of the capituIation
OF Metz tell upon the Government and
the people like thunderbolt 81 strong
had been the official assurance Of its
safety; some journals. however. and
notably the Constitutional Francais and
the Gazette de France, demand sus-
pension Of judgment. and deprecate the
strong language of Gambetta's nrocla-
nation condemning Bazaine. The lat
ter journal suggests council war to in
vestigate the matter. in order to give the
Marshal fair opportunity TO make his
defense.
The Government at Tours is in re-