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have that commanding position for its final struggle
II was In the heart OF Paris, lar concerned the
fire, quiet night.
TUE. DAY, TIE SECOND DAY.


TUE. DAY, TIE SECOND DAY,
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MoNTMARrRE
From the Care St Lazare, up the Rue d'Amster-
dam, and from the Pare Monceaux, by the Boule-
ward Baugnolles, the troops operated In front at
tack by different streets on the harficades In the
Place Clchy, Place Blanche and Place Pigalle.
AT The same time column OF troops
moved by the line Of the city wall
along all the bastions and opened the gates behind
Montmartre to stronger body coming from outside
the wall, Now the Communists had only counted
upon defending Montmarire on the side toward the
city, depending, perhaps, upon the Prussan neu-
trality at the other side. 1t happened therefore,
that while men, women and chdren-for
AT MoNTMARIRE THE WOMEN ALSO FOUGHT DEspE.
RATELY-
were defending the barrlcades from the attack by
the streets named, the troops coming by the
gates went up to the buttes almost unre-
sisted, AID by noon this natural fort
ress was In the hands of the troops.
TIE MADELEINE AND THE OPERA.
simultaneously with the operation against Mont
martre another operation was pushed down the
Boulevard Haussmann towards the Opera House ana
the Boulevard des Itallens, and third down the
boulevard Malesherbes towards the Madeleine and
the Of the great defences In the Rue Royae and
the Ruc st. Florentln. On the Boulevard Hauss
mann the most desperate resistance was encoun.
tered, at The junction OF the Rue Auber the Rue
Carmartin, where there was large barricade; but
towards noon the soldiers in the windows Of
all the houses looked down into the barricade
so completely that the National Guards
could not be kept there. One captain, hoping
to inspire his comrades by his example, not only
stayed there but scornng any cover stood up on the
barricade, AMI some Of his men, crouching below,
loaded their guns and handed them up to him, and
he alone kept up The fire Till his head was pierced by
bullet and he fell dead.
SEVERAL PRISONERS
were taken in this barricade, among them boy Of
sixteen, and the soldiers made them kneel. and SO
kneeling blew out their brains. Into the open
mouth Of ono who had been killed that mornng they
thrust copy Of the filthy revolutionary print, Pere
Duc,esne. At the Opera House, too, there was q
nard fight but 1t was carried.
IN THE BOULEVARD MALEsHERBEs
the barrlcade just above the Madeleine was taken
and retaken several times, for it was like the Key
stone In the arch all the defences OF that quarter
Once, when the troops had been repulsed and were
again coming forward, some Guards making SEM
bance OF purpose to surrender. drew q group Of
soldiers near to them and killed them ALL Al eleven
O'Clock A. M the soldiers stormed It and held IT, and
was desperate combat In the very church itself,
and the soldiers visited their vengeance the pri-
With the capture OF this position and the
Opera NIL was ready for o general forward move.
ment across the whole quarter toward the Boulevard
and the Iulleres and then ensued the most terrific
struggle OF the day
THE BATTLE OF THE BOULEVARD.
At four p. N. on Tuesday the war came with the
greatest energy upon the grand Boulevard. Here
ragged for two hours ana Q half, and all the way
from the Madeleine TO the Rue du Faubourg Mont.
martre, the most resoute, obstinate and bloody
battle or the city. Looking out Of window at the
corner OF the Boulevard and the Rue Neuve des
Capucines, saw lot some time q desultory firing
from q barrcade In the Rue de Seze, which looked
toward the Rue Tronclet behind the Madeleine, and
saw the men OF the Commune compelled to cross
the street, one at time and In STOPPING posture,
to escape the fire OF the troops Bullets from the
troops at that time reached the Boulevard down the
Rue de Seze and the Rue Canmartin and
also swept up the Boulevard from the neighborhood
Of the Madeleine. Shells Of enormous size swept
down the Boulevard from the barricade at the Place
dc pOpera, whence the Communists fred on the
regulars at the Madeleine. Shells also reached the
Boulevard by the Rue Canmartin. Only those who
have known the beautiful and brilliant Boulevard
des Capucines In the days OF its sunshny spIendor
can ever imagine what a
PANDBx0NIUA
It became when swept by this storm of iron and
lead; but any one can readily fgure 10 himself the
difficulties under which the retreatlng National
Guards crossed q street so covered at once by the
fire OF both sides. Suddenly the movement In re-
treat became more positive. The soldiers moving
at once from the Boulevard Haussmann and the Rue
Tronchet, were pushing down the Rue Canmartin.
the Rue Godot de Mauroy, the Rue de Ia Ferme des
Mathurlns and the Rue de Seze,
CONCENTRATING 4 TERRIBLE FIRE
at the junction Of these streets with the Boulevard
DIES capucines. The National Guards came on the
run, STOPPING little to get the cover OF the barri-
cades they were leaving behind them, moving close
to the walls to expose themselves little as posi-
BILE to the fire. Or In other cases, making a reckless
run for iie hugQlng corner that covered them for
a moment from the nre in one direction yet afraid
to lnger there lest the Ore in the next minute should
come down the other street; stopping in doorway
to load and give the advancing regulars one
more shot; they came to the Boulevard,
nobody standing denantly up to face the fire. One
guard In running across the Rue de Sezc, dropped
some papers from his pocket and walked steadily
out and picked them up. That was solitary act Of
indifference to the danger. He was not hit. But
now all these men were crowded under cover OF
the walls on the northern side Of the Boulevard.
These covered them completely from the fire down
the side streets but at the moment the troops
firing up the boulevard from before The Madeleine,
sent showers OF bullets that picked them out one by
one and dropped them
DEAD CT DYING IN THE DooRwAYs OF ALL THE
HOUSES.
Every moment too, the troops were coming
closer and closer down the side streets; and thus
pushed from behind they were forced to the EFFORT to
cross the Boulevard. Presently little respite came,
Tor some men Of the Commune advancing from the
Place venddme and from the barrcade at the cor.
ncr OF the Rue de Rivoi, occupied the windows Of
all the houses OH the south side OF the Boulevard,
and from there opened fire on the troops near the
Madeleine and those coming down the Rue Canmar.
tin and the streets below and above 1t. For mo-
ment this diverted attention, and in that moment
the wretches budding on the north side OF the
Boulevard rushed TO the cover OF the defences on
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