The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-25
The Latest Advices by Mail.
weissenburg, FOrbach and WOerth.
Further n fails Of the Battles.
French Prisoners at Berlin.
THE SITUATION.


Affairs Around nIetz-No Satisfactory AdvIces,
and the Exact Condition of Things still In
Doubt-Bazaine still Near Metz. II
The dispatches whichj we published in our
later editions ye sterday, and those which were
received last night, afford no definite and salts
factory clue to the actual positions of the belli
gerent armies between the Moselle and the
Meuse. 1t would still appear that Marshal
Bazaine has succeeded in reopening his
communications with the capital but
il would seem that he has
not succeeded in effectiug the withdrawal of any
considerable portion of his army from the neigh
borhood OF Metz. A report from Rheims, dated
as far back as Monday, states that Bazaine, with
part of his army, was retreating by way of
Vouzieres, on the Aisue, but 1t was thought that
this force was that portion of the main army
near Metz which is supposed to have escaped to
the west of Gravelotte before the road was
seized by the Prussians in the battle of the
18th. The latest reports from Paris lay no more
etrees upon Bazaines alleged escape to the
northwest, but generally acknowledge that he
is still hemmed in by the Prussians at Metz.
One report even states that Metz is completely
isolated, and that the Prussians have cut off all
communications between that point and Thion-
vile and Montmedy, and then, in the face of
this acknowledgment, insists that Bazaine aad
Minister of the Interior claims to have
favorable advices from the armies in the field,
which he withholds because some of the jour
nails indiscreetly make public details which
should be kept back. II there were any truth In
this statement, the ministry could easily fur
nish the public with such details as would not
benefit the enemy, and withhold from the indis-
Greet journals the rest and if favorable news
had been received, they would not be slow to
adopt this course. Asos
The dispatches received this morning up to
the time at which we write state that the Paris
papers are persuading themselves that Bazaise
is realizing some deep-laid strategical plan. Ad-
vices from Montmedy, by way of which place
Baxaine was said to have effected his escape,
dated Tuesday, the 23d, mention nothing what
ever of his alleged movements in that direction.
vanciuG.
Concerning the position and movements of
MacMahon and the Crown Prince, the reports
of last night were as unsatisfactory as those
from the valley of the Moselle. According to
them, however, the Crown Prince would appear
to have progressed as far as st. Dizier, 35
miles southeast of Chalons, and lis miles
east-southeast of Paris. There were reports
that he had halted here to reinforce the Prus-
sian right and centre, under Prince Frederick
Charles and General Won Stein metz.
The dispatches which we have received this
morning, however, lead to the belief that the
Crown Prince is steadily advancing on the capi-
tai. An official despatch from Prussian sources
states that Chalons has been evacuated by the
French, and that Prussian column is west of
that point, advancing rapidly on Paris; while a
Paris despatch, dated midnight, gives a
report that the Prussian advance
had reached Sezanne, town about 80 miles s..
w. of Chalons and but 65 miles e. s. E. from
Paris. Prussian detachmeHts are also reported
at Brienne, on the Aube, 40 miles s. e. OF
Sezanne, and at Chaumont, near the Marne, 80
miles further to the s. e. These reports indi-
cate that the Crown Princes army is advancing
on the capital by way of the Valley of the Aube,
as stated day or two ago, avoiding the army
of MacMahon in the neighborhood of Chalons
As to MacMahon, according to some of last
nights reports he was still at Chalons, while
others insisted that the camp there had been
abandoned, the army being posted on the plains
Immediately east, with the advance as far as
Ste. Menehould, on the Aisne, twenty-five miles
90 the northeast. The official Prussian report OF
the evacuation of Chalons, and the movement
of the Prussians TO the west of that point, tend
TO strengthen the credit of these reports.
The Naval Reconnaissance of the 17th.
The unimportant naval encounter which took
place on the 17th and of which the details have
just been received, is of little significance. The
Bay of Kuegen, from which the German de-
spatch-boat Grille started out on its recon
NOTHING expedition, divides the island o.
Ruegen from the mainland. and is stu
ated almost directly moth of Berlin
On the narrow portion of it the strong
sea-fortress OF stralsund is situated, at dis
tance of 100 miles from the Prussian capital
The Danish island of Moen, near which the
French squadron was encountered is located
northwest of the Bay OF Ruegen, the arm Of the
Baltic which interposes being here about n
miles in width. The French feet in the Baltic
is apparently inactive, and manifested on thil
occasion no disposition 70 do anything NOR.