The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-25
Movements Of Macnzahon.
Bs|Sium's Violated Neutrality.
France and Belsium.

b.
France and Belgium. s .i 1
PANS, Aug. 25.-The journals of last night
demand to know what action will be taken
by the French Government, now that Bel
gium has permitted a violation of her neu-
trality by the Prussians. ..1.-,.'l,N
A,,r The Siege of Metz. .t
LONDON, Aug. 25.-Preparations for the
siege of Metz seem formidable, and the en-
trenchments proceed with great activity. Z,
-he Baxaine's Strategy. 4
The Paris papers are persuading them
selves that Bazaine is realizing some deep
laid strategy. 81 l.sae4 a.a .g.a-a
\. s The Paris Council. r j,
PARIS, Aug. 25,-At the council of minis
ters held yesterday, General Wimpfen, who
has recently been operating against the
rebels in Algeria, was appointed to the COM
mand of the corps formerly commanded by
General Failly. The council is now composed
Of the ministers and Rouher, Schneider,
; Persigny, Baroche, and Trochu. i,iiJ F
ss The Prussians between Chalens aud Paris.
IGs LONDON, Aug. 25.-The following official
despatch from Berlin has just been received.
The Government has received q despatch
dated Bar-le-Duc, last evening, to the effect
that Chalons has been evacuated by the
French, and that O Prussian column is west
of Chalons, advancing rapidly. A fttt41o Z
% PARIS, Aug 24-Midnight. TT is reported
that the Prussians are at Sezanne to-day.
(NoTE-Sezanne is town of 5000 people,
25 miles southwest of Epernay, and about 65
miles east from Paris) sd is
|eisll The Prince Royal
of Prussia is reported at Nancy. Nothing
has been received from Metz or from the
armies of MacMahon and Bazaine to-day
Mac xIahon's Movements.
LONDON, Aug. 25-Noon.-The entire COM
mand of Marshal MacMahon left Rheims on
Monday, hoping to protect Paris.
! Prussian scouting parties are near Chalons
and Troyes
b. Mentnedy Adyices
| to August 23, Tuesday, mention nothing
whatever of Bazaine's junction with Mac
Mahon.
| Bazaine's reports find no credit.
Prussian detachments are reported at Chau-
! mont and Brienne.
| Laying Waste the Country Around Paris.
The Paris Committee of Defense has given
an order for the destruction of the crops and
food in the Departments of Marne and Seine
as the Prussians approach.
The above probably is intended for the De-
| partments of Marne and Seine-et-Marne The
| former is the one in which ChalOns is situated
and extends east to Ste. Menehould, north to
situated Immediately west, between the Seine
| and the Marne.-ED. EVE. TEL. 81
| The Empress Hopeless. sas
The Empress is still at the Tuileries, hope
less and detected. 1t is said she has become
very unpopular on account of her bigotry.
Change In the Nlllitury Situation.
| Special TO the Courier des EtGts-Un
PARIS, Aug. PA decided change is ap-
parent in our military situation within the
last forty-eight hours. We look back upon
ourselves after three m onths of dis appoint
ment and defeat, and tomorrow perhaps we
shall take the offensive. Such at least is the
opinion which prevails at the War Depart
ment and throughout official circles.
The Retreat ChaIons.
This is the intelligence which / have OBJ
tanned after the defeat of Froschweiler: The
debris of the corps engaged retreated in
pretty good order upon Saverne and Nancy,
whence they were transported to Chalons by
the Strasburg Railway as rapidly as the dis
organized service of that line would permit.
Other CoBcentrations at ChsIons.
On the other hand, part of the troops en-
camped in Centerbad, south of Alsace, as
well as the large garrison of Belfort were
sent forward to Chalons by the Paris and
Muhlhouse Railway. AT the same time an ex-
peditionary force concentrated at Cherbourg,
in order to operate on the shores of the Bal
tic, and nearly forty thousand troops of the
line were also despatched to Chalons where
they arrived in five days.
The Total Forces.
These forces, added to fifteen thousand
regulars from Paris and the frontier towns
near Belgium, made up an effective army OF
one hundred thousand mon. Thirty-fve
thousand of the Garde Mobile were also
added to them, and under the able direction
of General Trochu these forces, lately en-.
tirely distinct, have not been slow to con
solidate into an army homogeneous and Injured
to war, and provided with all necessary mate
rial fer a campaign.
Another Army at Paris.
After completing the formation of thii