The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-20
FROM EUROPE.
IBY ASSOCIATED PRESS. I

The Battle of Asnieres.
PARIS, April 1S.-In the affair at Asnieres
yesterday the 22Sth Battalion of the National
Guards retreated inside the Porte, crying OUT
"All is lost" The people charged the Ma
tionals with cowardice, and
A Hot Fight
ensued between the civil and military adherents
of the Commune
presents
A Horrible Spectacle,
the Nationals carousing and the wounded lying
in the streets groaning.
1t is curious that the Government did not fol-
low up the attack, as they must have succeeded.
At Neuly body of gensdarmes have been
entrenchee eight days, and in spite of wither-
ing fire still hold out.
The News of the Reverse
at Asnieres yesterday caused great excitement
in Paris. An Englishman in restaurant near
the Invalides was grossly insulted for not bear
ing arms.
A shell fell yesterday in the Faubourg st.
Honore.
The Communists are digging trenches in front
of Fort Nanvres, and the Government troops are
doing the same on the opposite side. Last
Shells Were Falling
in the Rue des Ternes.
A bloody combat has been raging at Neuilly
since SIX In the morning.
The commandant of the 26lst Battalion Ma
tionals was killed. The commandant of the
artillery was denounced and arrested as q
traitor.
The Nationals are now Retreating
| in large numbers. They set fire to q number of
| houses in Neuilly, and the inhabitants, hidden
| in the cellars, being unable to eXtricate them
selves, were
| Burned to Death.
Your correspondent while dodgng under a
| fire of ballets in the Boulevard Inkerman at
| Neuilly, stopped for instant in a doorway,
where he heard some one sobbing in the cellar
underneath. He looked in and saw
A;Woman and Two Children,
afraid to stir, having been there since yesterday.
| The inhabitants of Neuilly
| -BetitiOned for Armistice,
| to remove the woman and children, but General
| Cluseret refused the favor.
Numbers of houses in Versailles have been
struck by shells and are on fire.
Force of the VersaiIlists.
VERSAILLES, April $4,000 Government
troops are in the wood at st. Cloud and 10, 600
quartered at Bougival The Communists are
firing on Puteaux and doing great damage.
The road to st. Denis is crowded with
People Leaving Paris,
the advantages for doing SO being greater than
|
browsxis house yesterday. He and his staff
officer were in bed, but neither were injured. 1
learn that the reason the Versailles Government
are
BoRbarding the Champs Elysees
is to frighten the foreign ambassadors into
taking refuge in Versailles.
The Military situation.
PARIS, April 19-Eyening. cannonade
has been mingled with the fire of mitrailleuses
and musketry all day, at Courbevoie, Porte
MailIot, Puteaux, Asnieres, and Levallois. The
iron-clad railroad vans are operating actively.
Barricades and trenches are in course of con-
struction inside of Paris. The ReUea news
paper denies that the Versailles forces are mas
ters of the bridge crossing the Seine from
Asnieres to Clichy.
The Concentration of Troops
for the army of the Assembly continues.
The Are de TriOmphe Destroyed.
LONDON, April 20.-A special despatch to the
Telegraph says that the Arc de Triomphe has
been destroyed by the fire of the batteries of the
Versailles army.
Ordnance Captured by the Government
Troops
Two guns were captured by the Versailles
troops in the battle at Asnieres on the 18th.
ReinforcemenLs of twenty thousand men from
the army of the Assembly under the command
of General Ducrot, are expected at Asnieres.
MARsEILLEs, April 20.-The circular issued by
NJ. Theirs, announcing
The Capture OF Asnieres,
asserts that 1t is the key TO Courbevoie. NJ.
Theirs also says the insurgent losses in the fight
at Asneres were very heavy.
Turkey.
LONDON, April 20.-The Morning Posts spe-
clal despatch from Constantinople says the Porte
Intends to send large iron-clad feet to cruise
in the Black Sea.
Yachting In England.
J LONDON, April 20.-The on.James Ashbury,