The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-17
FROM EUROPE.
The Fight Rt Glen.

LONDON, Jan. 1850 P. MA despatch from
Bordeaux says in the fight at Glen, as a result
of which the enemy was driven from that place.
several Prussian officers were killed.
General Ubanxy to His soldiers.
General Chanzy announces the appearance of
the enemy's columns In the vicinity of his
forces on Sunday night, and that an engage
ment took place with their vanguard. Tue
General has issued an order of the day to the
Army of the Loire.
Explanatory Of the Recent Disaster,
and calling for the display of all their soldierly
qualities in the effort for its reparation.
He attributes
The Abandonment of lie Mans
by the army to an ineXplicable panic among
some troops and loss of important positions
which compromised the safety of the entire
army, and the failure to execute certain orders
given by himself. He says, nevertheless, that a
Supre me Effort
on the part of the army
May Yet save the Country,
and appeals in strong terms to the soldiers to
rally to his support, and fight with renewed
vigor for liberty and the republic.
Count Bismarck Ind'c.s the French RepnbIic
for Violations OF the UsaRes of War.
LONDON, Jan. 16.-The Herald special writer
in Berlin says:-Count Bismarck's circular, ad,
dressed to the Prussan representatives at foreign
courts, in answer to the French despatch of
General Chaudourdy, on The subject of the
treatment OF French prisoners, and their conduct
under parole, has been published.
Count Bismarck repudiates the idea of any
violation of the conventional usages of war on
the part of the Germans. He asserts. on the
contrary, that the French have been guilty of
such violations, and that. too, under circum-
stances which preclude the possibility
of mistake in making the charge
against them. He says that the French
hnn GrnA ,,f
flags of truce in twenty-one cases, and that
several of the Prussians were thus killed aud
wounded. After the battle of Wessenbourg it
was quite apparent that the French wounded,
even the French military surgeons, were
tirely ignorant of the existence of the conven-
tion, and it was consequently impossible that
they could comply with its regulations and
rules of guidance. Surgeons serving on the
Prussian ambulances were wounded.
Numbers of the French tireurs assumed the
cross of the Geneva Convention, as If they be-
longed to the Sanitary corps, when they were
compelled to retreat defeated In battle.
Besides, says the Prussian Premier, the cases
which were mentioned in my last circular, of
the 9th of September, 1870, on this subject
other infractions of conventions of international
law and of the general usages of civilized nations
have been perpetrated by the French EXplo-
sive balls were used by them in the battle Of
Woerth. Colonel Won Deckendorff was wounded
by one of these missiles.
The Germans did not use explosive bullets.
1ney nad bullet consisting OF sixteen 6harp-
edged pieces which they fired, but the make aud
intent of this missile we're openly submitted TO
the representatives of the foreign powers serv-
ing in Berlin, and approved of by them before
they were placed in the hands of the Prussian
soldiers in the field.
OUTRAGE AT SEA.
Count Bismarck goes on to instance. The
French man-of-war DessaiX burned three Ger
man ships at sea, instead of having them first
condemned by prize court.
VIOLATIONS ON LAND.
The German prisoners in the hands of the
French have been, and are, badly treated They
are insufticiently fed, and confined la cold and
damp prisons.
In Germany nothing of this sort has occurred.
The French TurcOs committed the most
beastly outrages both on the wounded and dead
Prussians. TO this they we're urged on bv the
utterances of French newspapers. The hide
penddnce Atgertne expressed its ''pity for the
poor Turcos" for men who had just cut off
the ears, noses, and heads of the German
wounded.
INFERENcEs.
Such proceedings says Count Bismarck are
| only possible under a dictatorship of French
rulers who excite the vlest passions of the
people, and who 'crush out" the liberty of the
| press, for the very purpose OF deceivng this
same people as to the real state of affairs exist
| ing in their country, and who by 30 doing le
| loose popular fury which they do not desire
| to keep within the bounds OF International law
and the lines of the usages of European war.
| RESULTS.
Thus, says the Prussan Premier in conclu
sion, we are compelled to prosecute the wa
| against France with degree of severity whic
is neither Characteristic of the German peopl
nor In accordance with our former usages in tn
years 1864 and 1866. You will thus be enable
to show to the Government to which you ar
accredited that the entire responsibility of thi
attaches to the French people-a people VIII
have continued NapoleOnic war without an
cause or right, at the same time renouncing a
the traditions of European warfare.
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