Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-14
CENSUS STATISTICS.


ANOTHER GERMAN VICTORY.
LONDON, Jan. 12.-Dispatches received here
state that decisive battle has been fought near
lie Mans between the army of Gen. Chauzy and
the right wing of Prince Frederick Charles's
command, which resulted in thorough
victory for the Germans. The French loss is
stated to be between 5000 and 5000 in killed and
wounded, and between II 900 and 70 900 cap
tured. 1t is estimated that the troops engaged
in the action numbered over 10000. The havoc
in the French ranks is said to have been APP
palling, and although the most determined re-
sistance was made by his troops, Gen Chauzy
was compelled 10 retreat, leaving his killed and
wounded in the hands of the Germans. 1t is
rumOred that lie Mans has been evacuated and
Chauzy is rapidly falling back towards Cher
bourg. kilograms received from Bordeaux
state that the defeat of Gen. Chauzy's army
produces the greatest CONSERVATION and alarm
in that city.
VERSAILLES, Jan. 12.-Further dispatches
have been received here from the command of
Prince Frederick Charles with reference to his
military movements lately executed in the
neighborhood Of LIE Mans. On Tuesday after
noon Prussian troops engaged the main body of
the French army under Gen. Chauzy, occupying
a position a few miles TO the eastward of lie
Mans, the French troops occupied position in
every respect superior, having full and excellent
scope for rendering their artillery service very
effective on the Prussian columns, which ad-
vanced rapidly on the enemy's position, and the
battle soon grew hot and general; the Prussian
artillery was also moved into such position as
was calculated to be most effective and this
combined with the determination of the enemy's
columns, soon began to tell on the ranks of the
French troops, whose disorderly and broken con-
dtion offered great and overpowering advantage.
The German front in repeated and over
whelming charges pressed steadily forward,
while the French battalions already wavering
began to realize the effect of the terrible cannon
ade which was being poured into their very
midst. After a desperate resistance against an
overwhelming force, the French troops were
compelled TO vacate the field of battle and fall
back on lie Mans, carefully covering their re-
treat from the enemy's pursuing column. The
loss 10 the French troops in this engagement
has not been ascertained, but il is known TO be
very considerable. Twenty-Five hundred prison
ers fell into the hands of the Prussians, who
also captured one piece of ordnance. The
wounded in the hospital have been removed TO
the cellars underground, in order TO avoid the
danger caused by the bursting of the Prussan
shells,
THE COMMANDMENT OF PARIS
VERSAILLES, Jan. PA terrible conflagra-
ton is now raging inside the walls of Paris, be.
heyed TO be near the centre of the city. Owing
to the heavy snow storms which have prevailed
here during the past few days, the gunners have
not been enabled TO fire with their former pre-
cision, but observations have been taken which
prove conclusively that the city has already ex-
perienced immense damage from the shells which
have been thrown into it.
The bombardment still goes on. On Tuesday
night 1t became general and all the forts were
attacked by the Prussian artillery. Yesterday,
the fire became still more deadly, many of the
Prussian batteries having occupied better posi-
tons and new and larger ordnance having been
also used in the cannonading. About 1000
balls were fired into the city yesterday. Many
women and children have been killed and
wounded. That part of the city situated in the
neighborhood of the Pantheon seems to have
suffered severely, numbers of houses and large
buildingsShaapg been laid in ruins The hos
pital deR5te has also been struck and greatly
damaged.
The fire into Paris from St. Cloud, Mendon,
Chatillon and. Clamart commands a maximum
range OF three and three-quarter miles, twenty
four-pounders reaching Menlly, Porte Maillot,
Avenue Roi de Rome, Champ de Mars, Les In
valdes and Jarden, Luxembourg observatory,
Dom and Porte Bicetre. All beyond is safe,
| being above range.
There are no batteries on the southern, east.
ern and northern sides that can yet touch Paris,