The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-28
SECOND EDITION
T0-DAY'S CABLE NEWS.
The Surrender StraSburg
King William Confirms the News.
The Prussians Occupy Orleans
German Review at Versailles.
a 4S Hour Armistice.
From Paris by Balloon.
DesertionS in The Garde Mobile.
Men Shot for Ensubordination
ETC., ETC., Etc.s ETC., ETC.
DeseriiOns in The Garde Mobile.
Nen Shot for Knsubordination
FROM EUROPE.

FROM EUROPE.
Surrender of strasburs.
DARMsTADT Sept. 27-A telegram has been
received from Ludwigshofen, announcing that
Strasburg surrendered to the Prussians on Mon
day afternoon at o'clock.
AForty-eIaht Hours Arnfsstice.
LONDON, Sept. 28-An armistice of forty
eight kours was concluded at Mezieres on Mon
day for the removal of the wounded.
France Will Resist to the Last:
Tours, Sept. 2S.-The disposition to resist
the Gemans to the last grows stronger in the
west and south. Troops continue to pour into
Tours.
Order In Paris.
Advices from Paris to Sunday, the 25th, have
been received by balloon. Perfect order existed
in the city.
Occupation of Orlenus.
The Prussians have marched into
Orleans and are now in full occupation Of that
city.
The Crown Prince ut Versailles.
LONDON, Sept. 2S.-A grand parade of Prus-
slams in the court yard at Versailles took place
yesterday The Crown Prince, standing under the
statue of Louis XIV, distributed honors to the
soldiers who had distinguished themselves by
their gallantry.
The Duke of WurtemberG Wounded.
The Duke of Wurtemberg was wounded in
the action at the outposts of St. Cloud.
The Mobiles arc Deserving
in crowds at Paris. 200 have been shot for in
subordination.
Fall of strnsburg-KiDE Williams Despatch
King Williams despatch to Queen Augusta,
announcing the capitulation of Strasburg at II
o'clock last evening is just made public here.
Other dispatches say the city surrendered at
o'clock.
Russia Preparing for War.
LONDON, Sept, 2S.-Reports thicken that Rus
sia is preparing for war. The army at the
South has been modified, and the late move
ments towards the Turkish border are ominous.
The CapituIation of Toul-Description of the
Fortress and Details of the surrender.
LONDON, Sept. 27.-[Specal Despatch to the New
York Tribune. IA correspondent at the headquar-
ters of Prince Frederick Charles, telegraphs via
Arlop, this day:-I have Just Returned from Toul,
travelling one day and two nights. The investment
of that city began August H. On the 10th assault
il t was epused With the no loss
hundred Germans. Thereafter an irregular sue
the 28d, but they were not sufficiently serious to
effect anything, the artillery employed being Of the
field service, together with such medieval siege
"The Bavarian Railroad directors, who run the
line from Weissenburg through Nancy to Paris,
fortnight; but Moltke said, No; we shall have Toul
long before that tme. The struggling attack, how
u "a
escarpment with full bastions, and was fully case
| mated. There was no glacis, but double moat,
tress. 1t was defended by seventy-nve guns, OF
which twenty-six were heavy rihed pieces from
| Strasburg, brought thence while yet France in
| tended an earnest defense OF Toul.
within the last fortnight heavy siege guns
| which had arrived from Germany were put in posi-
| on the heights opposite the Faubourg ST. Egare on
the southwest, and at Dommsrtin-les-Toul on the
southeast. Nothing serious was then attempted
! when a
| centrated bombardment OF the works was
4S Areg By troops
OF the 34th Infantry Brigade. All these form part of
a new independent command, under the Grand
| Duke of MecklenbuTg- -Schwerin, embracing all the
forces lying between the armies OF prederck Charles
and the Crown Prince-that is, all the troops of the
invasion not engaged In the sieges OF Metz and
''The firing continued all Friday, with an active
butvery ineffective reply from the garrison. In the
evening, the town being on fire in twenty three
| places, the pressure OF the inhabitants upon the
and offer to capituiate. The offer was im5
| mediatey accepted by Colonel Manteufel,
4he The of
were precisely those of Sedan council of the mu-
nicipaity, held on Friday, decided not to favor a
duals who feared useless destruction completely
overcame the belligerent determination Of the mill
tary and civil authorities.
1.-THE garrison was ridculously small. 1t con-
sisted OF go cuirasslers, 100 troops Of the line 4C
not one artnleTyman among them. The commands
ant was Major Huck, an old cavaryman. The Ger.
man officers are indignant that SO small
a force should have blockaded for slH
weeks the railroad to Paris, so essential
for trsnsport-in fact, the only line. Now the
railway is complete, Communicating directly will
the Paris siege army. Everything had been pre-
pared beyond Tou for weeks and trains were run
ming by horse power. Only bridge OF twelve fee
in length near Toul had to be replaced. This was
done on the 2bth and yesterday 26thl the first loco
motive went through.
81 went to Toul on the first inspectors train tha
approached the town after the surrender. Man!
houses are destroyed. The condition OF things i
worse than at Sedan but not SO bad as at Bazeiles
The Gothic chapel of Saint Gengoult is almOs
ruined but the ancient and very imposing Cathedra
has only a window arch demolished and IL
outside battered by score OF shells
The town and environs have a picturesqu
appearance and are built very much in the old Ger
man style. There are but few wounded, no sick
and but little disorder in Toul. Only two battalion
OF the 18th infantry remain as garrison. The prison
ers Of the native Garde Mobile were released unde
parole not TO serve again during the WsT oi u