The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-05
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Continued Fighting.
PARIS, Thursday Evening, May 4.-The fight
ing continues, and mitrailleuses are. greatly
used, almost superseding the chassepots.
The Losses of the Insurgents
have been heavy. Fort d'Issy is little better
than heap of ruins.
ROsseI and CIuseret.
General Rossel defends his predecessor, Gene
raj Cluseret and denies that the latter attempted
to make the battalion rise against the Com
mune. He was the first to enter Fort dIssy after
the advanced works were captured by the Ver-
sailles troops, and
The Panic-strlclzen Garrison
deserted the fort.
Last night the operations were
Disastrous TO the Commune.
The insurgents at Neuilly, Amiedes, Bagneux,
and Vilejuif assumed the offensive. but advanc-
ing too far beyond the forts were almost
surrounded by Great Numbers of the Ver-
saiIIes Troops
and driven back with heavy losses.
Opposite LIE Vallais the Versailles forces are
preparing to make an attack, and have un-
masked battery at Montretout, composed of
marine heavy artillery, and commanding Pont
du Jour, Autenil, and Passy. Auteuil is riddled
with shells, and the
Shells have fallen on the Faubourg st. Honore.
The Champs Elysees and Avenue des Ternes are
deserted. The Chateau of Issy is in flames.
To-day the
Prussians Made n RequisItiOn
upon the Commune for Vincennes, which had
been occupied by the insurgents some weeks.
They took all the ammunition and ej ejected the
National Guards conducting them nearly to
the gate of the city.
The Rebellion ut it's Last Gasp.
VERSAILLES May A flag of truce which
came to the lines of the Versailles troops to-
day refused to go back. The bearer declared
! that he was tired of fighting, and gave deplo-
rable account of the insurgents, all of whom
excepting the deserters are foreign adventurers.
Between Forts Vanvres and Issy eight hun
dred more prisoners were taken to-day.
MuIhausen and the Germans.
BERLIN, May At is evident, from the an
nouncement in the Strasbourger Zeitung, that
the city of Mulhausen will remain in the posses
sion of the Germans.
All Hope of Peace Abandoned.
LONDON, May 5.-The Times special from
Paris says all hopes of peace are abandoned. A
delegation of Free Masons has gone to the pro-
vinces to agitate in favor of the Commune.
There was
Constant Heavy Firing
yesterday between the forts.
The Times Versailles despatch says that NM
Favre and Ponyer Quertier have gone to Frank
fert-on- the Main to meet Prince Bismarck.
The Daily Ne1os says the
Versailles Forces are SheIIing AuteuIl
from a battery at Montretout.
The Prussians allow provisions to enter Paris
which occasions uneasness at Versailles.
The Castle of Issy has been burned.
The Republican Union League
demands the negotiation of truce for twenty
days.
The railway station at Auteuil has been
damaged by the fire of the Versailles batteries
and the inhabitants of the place are flying from
the bombardment.
Insurgemt Losses.
Since Friday the insurgents have lost 2OOC
killed, wounded, and prisoners.
PARIS May 5-The Communists still hold
Fort dIssy, and are having it entrenched. The
fort continues to fire slowly upon the Versail
kst batteries at Clamart and Bas Meudon, and
receives in return
A Perfect Hail of PrOjectiles.
Fort Vanvres also keeps upa slow fire, and il
vigorously shelled by Versaillists at Clamar
and Chati llon
, The Assemblyists
p. have unmasked formidable battery at Montre
tout, near st. Cloud, which menaces Auteuil
Pont du Jour, and Passy.
a VERSAILLES May 5.-st. German has bee
d taken possession of by the Versailles forces
who have establishes battery there, wit
: which to shell the
insurgents GunbOats
: on the.seine. A naval combat is expected.
Forta k,ontrOuDa and Hauta Rruvaraa ara ear