Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-10-17
BAZAINE OUT OF METZ.
HIS DEFEAT OF THE BEsIEGERs.
OTHER REPORTED GERMAN DEFEATS.

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Telegrophsd Exoirsirely TO 7he Er,aing Star.
WAR NOTES FROM TOURS.
Tours, Oct. I6.-The Committee on Arma-
ment announce that they have distributed over
l,Ooo eco guns, and will soon have I,Ooo, 900
more.
The Archbishop Of Tours has addressed the
government here against the persecution Of the
clergy in some parts of France.
News has been received from Bordeaux that
an effigy of the republic has been erected there
The Bishop Of Anglers has issued a circular
advising the religious communities in his do
cese to subscribe to the departmental armament
loan.
A NEW MILITARY DECREE OF THE
FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
decree o-day announces that departments
within one hundred kilometres Of the enemy are
under military law. The military chiefs are TO
make known the approach Of the enemy and
prompt notice must be given of all his move
Hents. They must also Immediately select and
and prepare places suitable TO resist his ad-
vance. Military committees have the right TO
make requisitions for persons and things and
will pay with orders on the government. Any
military chief has right to call out the ma
tional guards, and may send them to any place
within his command, go long as the department
is under military law. The national guards
which the State will pay tor. The military chiefs
OF departments are personally responsible for
the organization of the forces and the prepara-
tons TO reeist the enemy.
PROTEST AGAINST THE ANNEXATION
OF ALSACE AND LORRAINE
Upwards Of hundred of the leading citizen
OF Berlin publish their names, signed to a pro
test, against annexation OF Alsace and Lorraine
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION AT PRI-S-
SIAN HEADQUARTERS.
BERLIN, Oct. l6.-GSpecIal to Herald There
are rumors of differences of opinion at head
quarters, Moltke favoring immediate bombard-
ment, while Bismarck aud the Crown Prince
favor the slow process orsiege and starvation.
MORE IMPERIAL DOCUMENTS.
Papers found i'm the Tuilleries show ths
2G,642 persons were arrested in France for polit-
ical offences since December ID, 1851, OF whom
II .l1S were transported, banished or imprisoned
Edmund Adam has been appointed Prefect
OF Police, vice keratry, who has resigned 10
enter upon mission Of foreign affairs.
TRoCHU'S SUCCESSFUL SoRrIE.
NRw YORK, Oct. IA World special gives
the following account of the sortie Of Trochu
The attack was led by the Garde Mobiles, who
behaved with valor and ste adiness, and the Ger
mans, after brief resistance, broke every
where IN confusion, abandoning their artillery
and teams. considerable force, which re-
treated in better order as far as Leplesser Pc
quit, nine miles south OF Paris, was hotly pur-
sued by the Gardes OF Brittany and OF the Seine,
and attempted to make a stand at the chateau
OF that place. They we're assaulted finally, and
after brief eng lgenent compelled TO sgrreu-
der at discretion. The French captured a great
number Of prisoners, cannon, nags, ambulances
and commissary teams
There are now no Prussan siege works occu-
pied within four miles OF the enceinte OF the
walls of Paris.
BAZAINE OUT OF THE BOTTLE AT
LAST.
The Worlds special correspondent at Ostend
says Marshal Bazaine made a fourth and over
whelming attack in force, marching by Laisn-
champ and Mesieres, while another part of his
army furiously assailei the Germans beyond
Noseule. The Germans were beaten in both
directions, their camps broken up, and a body
forced into disastrous retreat upon Pont a
Molsson, where they now are. Bazaine him
self Is at ThionyIlle organizing movement In
regard to which all m amer OF speculstions are
afoat He holds the line to Mezieres and Mar
ange.
and Forbach. The government Of Holland is
engaged in active negotiations with the Bel
gian government relating to the matter of the
occupation OF Lux mburg, and the Belgian army
at Nsmur has been ordered to be heavily rein
forced.
MORE REPORTED GERMAN DEFEATS.
The Worlds special correspondent at Boulog-
ma says: Engagements have taken place within
the past three days at Cherisy, at Ecos Les
AuOely 8, ana Al Laforte ST. Aubin, in each Of
which the Germans were badly beaten. In the
latter engagement. which occurred Thursday,
the Germans. to the number OF between s,o00
and COO, we're attacked early in the morning
by O,0O0 Gardes Mobiles and troops Of the line
OF the Army Of the Loire. They we're badly
posted, and were taken partially by surprise,
but fought with considerable Discrimination
until they were taken in the ftAnk b. the right
wing OF the French, when, finding themselves
out -maneuvered, they sought retreat through
the town. The inhabitants, aided by . small
hnax Of Evan hoA hor aAaA fho
main streets, and resisted the Germans until
the main body Of the pursuing French fell upon
them again, cut their rstreating column In two,
and captured or dispersed the whole<Orce.
NEW PHASE OF THE PEACE NEGoTI-
ATIONS.
A special to the New York World says:-The
Prussian embassy here addressed itseh to-day
TO the FL glsh government, with view to gain
the co.opersfion Of Great Britain In efforts for
peace. The English government b instructed
demand for money indemnity, or - abandon IL
Altogether and th hat the naturalization OF Stras-
burg and Metz will be accepted In lieu Of their
surrender. The demand OF Prussia for the sur
doped entirely, the Russian government having
siguified distinctly its absolute determination
not to permit the transfer Of any part Of the
French sect TO the North German flag.
Ii is also understood that Russia insists upon
a European Congress as preliminary 20 treaty
Of eace, and that Prince Gortschakof has in
Termed the government Of Berlin that II the for.
tresses OF the Rhine frontier are 20 be neutral
lied, R-ssia VII require equisalcnt guarantees
TO be given u her on the Baltic on the Polish
line. This demand of Rassa Is supported by An
informal note from the ustro- n unaarian ckan-
cery.
The government OF the Hague has also nrA-
sented claim 70 be heard en- the terms Of settle