, 1870-08-15
FOREIGN.


{Sp+cial Despatch to the New York Htrafhl
InypoH, Aug. 13.-The French Embassy. in this
ctv,, has received report from Paris that there
WIS 1shting to-day before Metz, and that the at
taek was made By the French. No report Of the
fight il received in this city rum correspondents
pfalzbuIg, the key Of the Fosges. twenty 1se
,nIles fsqM Strasbufg, has surE1nucEei II the
p1uss3apa the Crown Princes arnT hai left
pf&lzbu5g IN tue rear long before It's surrender.
METZ. Aug. t3-6 ?. MA body OF the enemy
came near Frpnar1, station on the Paris Ssr2s-
burg KailHaT, this morning. They were attacked
and driven Oh, and their commander taken
prisoner. ........
To-day our cavalry maie brilliant rec 1nnols-
sancc In the direction OF the rive: S.el The enc
m.s courters and small bodies Of osyalEy paue-
tsats far INTO shc county, but tho mAln bodJ OF
thel. army Il not making anr forward movemeat.
LONDON, Aug. 1s-AdVces from St Av"sd
10 Friday night represent that the French
army Is west of the Aoss!lH, aao s1M
feueat1u2. The Pluxstau cavalry had reached
Pout Moussan. about hall way between
Metz and Nancy, on the railroad The Prusslans,
as they adFAnte, capture vast stoiea, Hnlca Lave
been abandoned By tho French.
NEW YoRx, Aug, IA special to the Eetnin9
E<segrarn from London, 18th, says: Reports from
csrls1uhe this morning announce the capttula-
tin Of Ssraaburg, after abort bombaEdmeuI
-tSharp fighting took place In front OF Metz yes
teEday. 4 considerable force OF Plusstans ad-
yanced into the enytrnns OF the city as reCon-
no,testng party, to discover whether the reports
Of the town having been evacuated b. the French
were nue They were met BY sharp DIRE from
batter1eF aud forced to retire.
ssRetnforcemenis for the French, both ID men
and stores arc constantly and rapidly Arriving.
II would appear that the Prusslan advance has
received decided check at this poiut, and great
battle cannot Tow much longer be tlellYeL"
The French claim that Strasbufg Il thoroughly
pEeIared for siege They say four hundred ean-
nun are mounted on The rau.parts, and the garfi-
son CONSISTS Of 11.oOo men, without counting rhe
National Gua1t.
LONDON. Aug. 1s.-A French officer, who LETT
London few days ago, full Of patriotism and
lire fur. his country, writes: ~ have Just met
scme persons from Nancy who retreascd before
the Prusslans, who, day before yesterday, were At
yie, a few miles from Nancy. They nil! thence
by Toui, and probably Join the other army behind
cbalous, perhaps at Paris. Why the French army
remains concentrated before Metz nobody under
ssauds, It Il believed that the P1ussians are al
res.1T 1t Nancy, aud 1t appears that the empire II
rolled up 1ks scroll
s4Whak HousEsy said this morning II true. For
twenty 5eRta nobo.ty In France has studied war
seriously. Everything has bean done superncially,
while the Prussspe era nrss In science, and have
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