The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-13

Montmedy. Those who really knew how TO
fight knew also when to yield.
THE sPoILs.
The StdGts Anzeiger publishes the follow
ing account of the capture of men and mate
rial by the German armies since the begin
ming of the war;
The losses of the enemy and the prizes of
the German armies in the present campaign,
not yet of two months duration, exclusive of
killed and wounded are One marshal, 80
generals, 1856 officers, 104, $50 men, and
II, 900 wounded in Sedan; 10, $50 herses, at
least Sc eagles, 102 mitrailleuses. 600 field and
fortress guns, over 400 standards, several
pontoons, magazines, railway trains; also an
almost innumerable mass of arms munitions,
dress and equipment articles, forage and
provisions. To this enormous total the
prizes taken at Toul and Strasburg have now
to be added.
THE SURRENDER OF sTRAsBURG.
The Lendon DAILY Ne,os says:-The great
French fortress has fallen, and the fast
friends of France need not be sorry that its
resistance is at an end. It's gallant defenders
. had discharged their duty. If the people of
every town in France had done as much ac-
cording to their means as the citizens of
Strasburg, if every military body in France
bad exhibited the steady endurance of its
garrison, German host would not at this
would not look in vain for an army to succor
and relieve her. Well have they borne their
share in the burdens of the war, and it was
time for them to decline contest that had
become hopeless. In the name of humanity
we may rejoice that this siege is over, and
that it has ended in a surrender.
BIsMARCK's POLICY.
The Daily Neaos observes that Count Bis
marck is apparently resolved to fight it out
upon his present line if it lasts all the winter.
Germany has deliberately counted the cost.
She has weighed every ingredient of the pos
sible sacrifice, and has calmly decided that it
must be borne. The NeaoS confesses that it
does not see any sufficient assurance that the
French have made up their minds with equal
deliberation and equal frmness. They seem
rather to be drifting about for principle and
policy. We cannot wonder if the Germans
take into consideration the fact that their
enemy is of ftful mood and apt to be blown
abeut by every gust of sentiment or fortune,
and feel bound to require practical guarantees
against the result of altered moods and sud-
oen counsels in their enemy. France refused
the armistice because it seemed to involve
unpalatable conditions of peace. Germany
is only the more resolved not to conclude
peace which would have the essential attri-
butes of a mere armistice.
THE ALLEGED PRUsssAN oUTRAGEs.
-Four English gentlemen, newspaper CORE
spondents and surgeons, who have followed
the campaign from Forbach to Sedan, have
sent home an explicit denial of the charges
made against the German troops, in letter
of correspondent of the PaN Mall Gazette,
as to outrages on women and the spoliation
of property. The writer's say:-"We
feel bound to give the most unqualified
contradiction to the statements of the
writer in the Pail Mall Gazette. We
have found want suffering, and misery
enough wherever we have turned but we
have never yet met, or even heard of, a
single instance of personal violence offered
to the peasantry, single instance of outrage
towards women, or a single instance in which
farmhouse has been robbed of more than
its stray fowls and fruit. Amid all the hor-
rors which have been going on around us,
we talk among ourselves of the kindness, for
bearance, and singular honesty with which,
considering all the circumstances, the Prus-
slams have behaved towards the people and
property of the towns and districts through
which they have passed" Independent tes-
timony to the same effect is quite conclusive
on this subject.