Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-05
WAR SPLINIERS.

WAR SPLINIERS.
There is still considera BILE INSTRUMENTATION
in the French army. The officers are appar-
emily unable to prevent disorder and violence
among the raw and undiscipiined soldiers
Severe examples have been made.
The Turcos give as a reason for throwing
their coffee into the faces of the highborn
young ladies who nurse them in the hospi-
tails, that it isn't strong enough.
a great many boys between the ages of -
and l6 are missing in the different cities of
Germany. In Berlin alone 40 have thus
mysteriously disappeared. They have run
away to join the army, and probably most of
them are now at the front.
According to a statement which appears
in LUnvers, Marshall Lebeuf, late Napo-
Icons chief of staff sought death in the bat
ties around Metz, and displayed the most
reckless valor. He admits that France was
unprepared for war, and confesses that he
did not dare to tell the Emperor before the
war commenced what the state of the army
was.
The people of Switzerland are all in SYM
pathy with the expelled Germans who are
fleeing from France. The Federal Council
has directed the officers of the various rail-
to furnish them with necessaries at the ex-
pense of the Government.
The repor. is reiterated that General
Beauregard, late of the Confederate army, is
in the French service. 1t is stated that he
first accepted eolonel's commission, but
that he has since been appointed general, and
is at present organizing troops in the south of
France.
Great military activity prevails in all the
military departments of Russia. Orders have
been issued for the concentration of stores at
different points near the frontiers. An en-
gineer commission has left St. Petersburg
to make an examination of the Notifications
OF Odessa, with view of carrying out con-
templated alterations.
Great scandals are coming to light from
the examination of official documents found
in the palace of the Tuilleries. They are of a
character duplicating the very highest per-
sonages in France and other parts of Europe.
The democrats in Germany are becoming
loud in protesting against an unnecessary hui
initiation of France. The continued arrests
strength to the current. There is great
dread Of reactionary tendencies in Prussia
among German liberals. They say that
seould King William proclaim himself Emper-
Fatherland before five years have elapsed.
This is the universal conviction throughout
Germany.
We are likely to have new light thrown
on Jecker's operations in Mexico by docu-
ments found at the Tuileries. As it has been
always suspected, DeMorny made immense
sums from them; this appears evident from
the facts now turned up, and it will probably
appear that DeMorny's mistresses had large
slices, for two of them became suddenly
mllionaires about that time.
Gen. Sheridan, in a letter dated Rheims,
Sept. s, says; 'You, of course long before
this, are familiar with the fate of Napoleon
and McMahon's army. They put their foot
into it, as we say in America, and | see
nothing now left to France but to give up the
contest and make the best terms possible.
The French have been outgeneraled, and, in
addition, the German troops go into every
battle to win 1t seems to make no differ
ence to them where they find the French;
they go to work to whip them, and have done
so in every instance. | feel, of course, a
great delicacy in saying anything about army
movements, but certainly 'on to Paris now is
a much more certain thing than 'on to
Richmond was with us"