Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-01
Foreign Notes.

ITEMS FROM PARIS.
PARIS, Feb. 27-An official notice, signed bv
| Picard, confirms the signature of the prelimina-
| ries of peace, and announces that the armiStlce
| is prolonged four DAYS. Contributions and re-
| quisihOns are to cease. The entrance of the
| Germans into Paris was the price paid to save
Belfort.
NJ Quertier has heen appointed minister of
| finance. General Paladine has been named
commander Of the national guards of the Seine.
The Germans enter Paris on Wednesday, and
| will evacuate the city Immediately upon the
ratification of peace
The consultation commission goes to Bor.
| deauX on Tuesday, and debate upon the ques-
| ton of ratification of the treaty of peace will
| commence Immediately.
The Partisan army will occupy the left bank
of the Seine. No Frenchmen In uniforms are TO
be allowed to enter the German portion of the
city, which will be surrounded by barbados.
In consequence of the report of the immediate
entry of the Germans, Sunday night, the guard
erected rampartS in the Champs Elysees to repel
the enemy.
At midnight, quiet was restored, but on Mon
day morning the city was again agitated.
Crowds surrounded a notice signed by Picard,
which has been placarded in various parts of
the city, appealing tor the preservation of order
and dignity. The crowd also invaded the prison
OF S5int Pelagie, and freed two commandants of
the guard placed under arrest.
All papers, even the Ultra Radical, recommend
papers Il abstain from publication during the
occupation. 1t is believed there will be no con-
flict.
The Patrie says that the question of the entry
Of the German army into Paris occupied the ne
gotiatiOns ten times longer than those of terri
torial cession and indemnity. Many citizens
have purchased weeks provisions to avoid ap.
pealing in tue sheets during the German occu.
patton.
The policeman who was drowned in the Seine
by the enraged crowd on Sunday proves to have
heen an emplove under the NdpoleOnic Project
Pictri, and TO have been murdered in consequence
of his acts in that capacity.
The PLrisians believe that the Germans enter
the city with the intention to provoke a conflict
which will give coloi to more eXactions.
Rothschild has promised TO pay the entire in
dcmnity to Germany within a year. aud the
German army of occupation will be got rid of
at the end Of that time
BY the treaty 81 gued Sunday the fortified cities
of Luneville, Nancy and Belfort are left TO
France. L)ngwy, Thionvlle, Metz, Slarbruck,
and the iron districts 90 to Germany. Prince
Fred erick Charles is to be governor of Cham
pague, with his headquarters at Rheims.
The decision of the national assembly is
anXiously looked for, AMI great fears are ex-
pressed that the councils of the left NAV prevail
and that upon official communication of the
terms of peace they may meet with reiectious
that will complicate the peace prospects of the
nation.
Louis Blanc and Gambetta are opposed to the
acceptance of these terms.
A number Of Bonapartist agents are in Paris,
and it is certain that they Will favor rejection.
The PrusSians are evidently preparing for
contingency of this kind. Bism irck is known
to ne opposed to the entry of the troops aud if
collision should occur between the prople and
the Prussans 1t will be nude the excuse of
putting the city under martial law.