New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-07
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We assume that no intelligent journalist IN
our City had any right on Monday evening 10
be ignorant of these leading facts
1. That the French Army of the LORE Whlcn
had previously held much longer hne north
of Orleans, facing toward Paris ana cohiIoh'-
ing the German forces which barred us way
to the Capital, had been, prior to ltS ior"aIu
movement last week, concentrated IN strohs
position around the village of Artenay, some
miles north of Orleans, on the direct road 10
Paris -.
Q. That il was put in motion, last week, with
intent TO omen the way to Paris, and did some
SQUARE. solid fighting on that line;
2. That, having chosen its own time and
Mace for delivering this blow, it was able to
Give the Germans directly in its front quite
enough to do before kindred concentration
or an e1uivalent reinforcement could be eff
fected on their part;
4. That, simultaneously with this advance,
and manifcstly by precOncert, Trochu impelled
several grand sOrties from Paris
8. That the most formidable Of these, under
the command of Gen. DucrOt was intended to
pierce the German lines on or near the Marine,
and, in case of the expected success OF Gen.
Aurelles's forward movement, to form june
ton with his army and help it to raise the
siege of Paris;
6. That this sortie, aided of course by others
in other directions intended TO distract the
Germans attention and prevent a cOncentra-
ton of their forces upon Ducrot-aided also
by q heavy fire from the nearest Of the fortresses
which form the exterior defenses of Paris
achieved u partial and temporary success, in
asmuch that Ducrot was enabled to establish
himself in an oxbow Of the Marine, some miles
outside of Paris
7. That DucrOt, after time had been afforded
the Germans to ascertain the meaning OF his
demons tration and to concentrate in his front,
was of course at the end of his tether, unable
to advance another rod consequently could at
best but await the booming of Aurelless vlcto-
rious guns
s. But Aureles's advance had by this time
not only been completely arrested, but he had
been thrown back on his fortified line abreast
of Artenay, and then driven from this back
into Orleans, and then compelled to abandon
that great city, spiking and leaving his heavy
guns, blowing up his magazines, and retreat
ing to Blois which is all but halfway from
Orleans to Tours.
In short no intelligent journalist in New
York could nationally be ignorant of the fact
that the well planned and well combined SUI
preme effort of the French to raise the siege
of Paris had disastrously failed-that by far
their best army had been badly defeated in
several desperate tights, and was in full re-
treat before the victorious and irresistible Ger
mans, leaving Paris without hope of deliv-
| erance.
Such were the known circumstances under
which The World yesterday put forth the
following sumner:
"T1IE SITUATION IN FRANCE.
| "Our special dispatches from Tours and Versailles
| enable us this morning 10 formIln approximately accu-
rate notion OF the military events OF the past week In
France
at is quite clear that the Operations OF the Army OF
Of Paris both to the north and the south OF that city,
were combined with skill and carried ont with spirit and
success They undoubtedly resulted in driving the be-
segers from some Of their most important positions,
particularly to the south OF Paris and establishing
formidable French force at points from which it act
with efficiency In support Of any really vigorous and
successful advance Of the Army Of the Loire Tia! com
punieaons hare been re0peHed beoeen he capital aud
the Army Of the Loire also appears 10 be quite certain
and il is obvious that the withdrawal OF powerful
force az that now without the walls OF Paris must
sources of the besged But the advance Of the Army
Of the Loire If has not been checked has at least been
arrested by the failure Of Of Its wings to repel the
| Germans moving upon Orleans, and no decisive results
can looked from the victories OF the troops Of Gen
Trochu on the Marine until TIE contest the Loire,
neeessitaed by the position Of tie Germans at Orleans
shall hare been fought 10 issue Gen de Paladines
to be embarrassed by the duty Of protecting Tours
somewhat our Generals In the late were by the
duty OF protecting Washington. The French hare doubt
less gained Incidentally in moral force by these recent
demonstrati0ns The material struggle, too has been
brought by them into and most interesting phase
But grasp OF the Germans upon the republic has
yet been far loosened to bear out the extreme
| change which seems TO have como over the spirit Of
English comment upon the and its prospects,"
Can faulty account for such mOnstrous
Interpretations Must they not involve q
lack either of decent intelligence OF of any
approach to honestly
Here is a specimen of the peculiar special"
information of The World:
LONDON OFFICE OF THR WORLD
No. 80 Fleet-st., Dec. S.
"Major Maclean sends me word from Tours at mid
night Sunday that the Army Of the Loire wait
ing in strongly ntrenched positions to the north Of Or
leans a concentrated attack OF the Prusslans"
AT midnight on Sunday" the Army of the
Loire, driven out of its strongly intrenched
positions aforesaid, and chased into Orleans,
was holding on for tho moment to the best of
its ability; but its brave and capable COM
mander had telegraphed to Tours, hours be-
fore, that he could not persist in 30 doing, but
must leave the city to its fate--as he soon
afterward did.
The pretense that Gen. de Palladines seems
to be embarrassed by the duty of protect
"ing Tours somewhat as our Generals in the
late war were by the duty of protecting
Washington" is without shadow of pre-
text. 1t is as unlike truth as The World is
unlike newspaper. Generals who hesitate
and intreuch may sometimes he embarrassed