The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-07
FIRST EDITIO N
The Invasion of France.
The Ckinese-FranCo Trouble.
DR.. JaeOhi, The German Liberal.
a Chase at Sea.
ETC.. Etc.s ETC.. ETC.. Etc
Etc. Etc.s ETC.. ETC.. Etc
THE GERMAN INVASION,
France UndcrfoOt-War scenes and IncIdents
Events In City and Country.

France UBdcrfoOt-War scenes and Incldents
Events in City and Country
HOW THE GERMANS BEHAVE IN FRANCE.
DR.. Russell, writing from Coulommiers Sep
tember 16, in the same letter which contains his
imaginative account of the interview between
King William and the Emperor, says:-
Nothing can be more distressing than the
continual voice of complaint and lamentation
addressed to a stranger soon as it is disco
Vered he is not q Prussiap. The men have
nothing to do, the women but little, and SO they
sit and walk about and drive each other crazy
by tales of sorrow relating to forage, corn, wine,
wine, cocks and hens, horses and carriages
pilloge et gdspildge.' very grave fault has
been committed in one respect by many people,
but it was natural enough-they shut up their
houses and left them When soldiers come to a
|. house which is fastened up, first they knock and
then they break in, and when they have broken
in, they force open the doors and ransack the
premises, not TO plunder, but to search for arms
and wine--the first for duty, the second for
pleasure. Ny host here took me into house
yesterday which he said had been sorely i'll
used. The floors were covered with articles
tumbled out of the drawers and cupboards aud
some doors and glass were broken; but beyond
that no real mischief had been done, and there
were pictures on the walls, clocks, etc, all uu
touched.
But the cellar was certainly much the worse
for future visitors. q the old man was holding
up gi{ets ands les chemiSeS de monsieur to my
plying gaze, in came Prussan officer, to
whom ! explained the grievance. Yes. and
tell him that they broke open the doors, though
there, you see, are all the keys lying ia a row
on the table there y The Prussiau smiled. But
does he really think the soldiers could afford
the time to find out the keys of the doors? If
they don't wish their doors to be forced they
had better leave them unlocked or put the keys
in them quite ready Nothing more practical
and sensible than that, think. The villages
and townspeople again, naturally enough, de-
clare that all their stores are gone when requi-
sitiOns are made upon them. They say that
they are starving at time when they
ought merely to say, If you take this and that
we shall be in danger of starving" The Prus-
SLAMS may search, and find what they want, and
then consider and treat all the people as liars,
of criminal proportions. There must be vii
lagos in which starvation is actual or imminent,
for the harvest was very bad, and the passage
of the troops of both armies incessant, but
aid viii no doubt be forthcoming from the large
towns as soon as the Prussians can spare the
means of transport. In fact, ladies and gentle
men, war is disagreeabe thing, and in its train
comes a convoy Of evils, misery and wrong;
but there is one outrage which l firmly believe
no one can lay to the charge of the German
armies. They respect women everywhere. A
Frenchman at Rheims gave them no credit for
that virtue for he declared all the young girls
and good-looking women had been carefully
sentaway."
sTRASBURG CATHEDRAL.
4 London Times correspondent writing be-
fore the surrender Of StrasOurg, SAYS
ITO the naked eye the siege of Strasburg, as
viewed from the heights behind Offenburg looks
very mucn ike the siege OF StTaSDuIS taJl6Qral.
The cathedral is the only building that can be
seen; the cathedral, standing, as it does on high
ground in the very centre of the city, is the
only building that can be seen entire For the
cathedral, in spite of the stories circulated as to
the damage done to it is entire. The clock, /
believe, has been injured, and it is said that q
shell broke through one of the celebrated
painted glass windows and burst close to the
organ. The spire has been struck in many
places, but | have been within mile and a
half of the cathedral, and as regards the general
appearance at that distance, can declare it to be
unchanged. In any case, 1t is foolish calumny
TO say that the besiegers have fired upon the
cathedral. 1t was difficult to avoid hitting it
from time TO time, and if stray shots have in
deed tonched it, the fact will be regretted by
the Germans as much as by the French"
THE LAST HORRORS OF THE BATTLEFIELD.
II am happy to say" writes correspondent,
"a severe example has just been made of three
Prussians, who came from the town of Duren.
1t appears that these three ruflians had dis
guised themselves, two as Johnniter and the
third as a clergyman. On the field of the 18th
they were observed by Prussian wounded Off
Ger to lean over the bodies of the dead, and to
take an unnecessarily long time over places
where no assistance was required. He watched
them carefully, until sharp cry OF pain left
him no doubt as to their horrible errand. They
leaned over man who evidently refused to
permit them to take from him the things Sc
dear to the dying solder-perhaps the portraits
of his wife and mother-perhaps the few ring:
that brought to his memory the faces of his
children whom he was never more to behold
The wounded officer drew his revolver and hi
one of the wretches; the report drew the atten
tion of some army policemen, who, fastening
to the spot, secured the three inhumau brutes
Their knives were red with the blood of theil
victims, and | am happy to say their shrft was
short and summary.
FRENCH IGNORANCE,
The ignorant prejudices of the French t.
which even men in the high aud respons blI
situation of General Trochu, and authors whi
stand in the foremost ranks OF literature suct
as NJ. Edmond About, are not ashamed Il
pander, have been amusngly eXemplified a
Stettp where the captive French officers have
been joined by their wives and friends. Tn,
ladies are greatly astOnisbed to find that th,
stores distributed to the prisoners and the com
modities which they purchase in the town arr
of excellent quality and not so dear thu
same things in Paris. A French gentleman wa
asked, in his own language, by a German office
in the citadel, how it was that nation lik
France could think of inhictiDg, even on
country with whom it was at war, the presenc
of sayages. To this the Frenchman retorted
"Well, you do the same; have You not sent int,
France whole troops of barbarous Pomerauians?
lie had no distinct geographical impression
with regard to Pomerania, but rather lmagine
Twas a remote and unciyiized land, appende
To the Prussian sovereignty; and he was aston
ished and confused on being told that he wa
rhen discoursing learnedly in a Pomeranla
town. This is no exaggerated or even Verl
extraordinary instance.
WAR EXPENSES.
A present estimate of the expenses OF the wa
cannot possibly be based on any accessible
Statistics or approximate calculations, and mus