Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-15
Hard Fighting Around the Glty-Ths Reds
Holding Their OWh SiIfly-ShslIs fall.
lig In the Champ Elysess-hs.
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1 with ThieTs' government, and moth
ing viii be made known until a full
| report of their mission is completed.
The plate seized in the bureau Of
| the Minister of Foreign Affairs has
| been converted into specie.
The Commune, considering the col
umn in the Place VendOme a barbar-
| Gus monument and a symbol of brute
force and false glory and negatiOn
Of fraternity, have decreed its demo-
| lition.
The Mot de Ordre claims that the
Nationals now occupy the whole OF
! NeUilly, and expects a general attack
will be made tonight by the army of
! Versailles.
PARIS, April 13, pm, via London,
April 14.-Asniers still holds out
against the Versailles forces, whose
attack is repulsed.
Engagements are in progress at
Neuilly.
Shells from Fort Mont VaIerien are
falling in the Champs Elysees.
Cannonading is heard south of the
city.
The object of the Versailles COM
mander today was apparently TO
! reach Asniers, and thereby relieve the
| detachment Of their troops surrounded
by the Communist forces on the island
of Grand Jutta.
The Versailles batteries cannOnaded
the villages of LIE VallOis, Camperet
/ and Neuilly. There was infantry
! fighting at all the approaches to the
| villages. The Communists gave way
at eleven o'clock, and General DOM
brOWski asked for reinfOrcements.
| They were sent forward, and it is
annOUnced by to nights Communist
| journal that the Versailles forces were
! finally repulsed.
Jecka NOled, a Franco Mexican
| banker, has been arrested.
The Commune has decided to keep
Bergeret under arrest, and to release
Assy.
Delegates from the party of cOncili-
alton have returned from Versailles,
and report that Thiers refused to dis,
cuss the question of treaty, but was
ready to guarantee the continuance of
the republic, and to accede to a mu-
nicipal franchise to Paris, upon a plan
to be elaborated by the Assembly. he
was also willing to allow the Organi-
ZatiOn of the National Guard of Paris,
which should take the place of and
include the army of France in the
city, but refused to recognize the bel
ligerency of the Commune, or enter
into negotiations for peace or even an
armistice.
The ABrdnchiB newspaper annOun-
ces that the insurgents have made
1000 prisoners at Nilliers.
BEFORE PARIS, April IA, VIA LON
DON, April Is, 2:30 a.m.-There was
fighting last night and this morning at
Neuilly and Asniers, but it did not
result in appreciably modifying the
relative positions Of the bellig-
erents. The Versailles forces still
occupy the vicinity of the
bridge of NeUily and a detachment
which the insurgents were endeavOr-
ing to force to reCrOss the Seine, re-
main on the island of Grande JOtte,
awaiting reinfOrcements. The build
ings in the neighbOrhOOd and ram
parts are badly damaged and nearly
all OF the inhabitants have moved
away.
The situation on the south. side Of
the city is unaltered. All are waiting
for the grand attack.
Marshal McMahOn is reported to be
at Reuu.
Cluseret, in his report to Commune
of the fighting on the 18th, boasts
that the Government troops were so
| easily repulsed that his men feel great
confidence in their ultimate success.
He declares the conduct of the Nation
al Guards under fire was admirable.
The Communists are plundering the
public offices of papers and plate. The
| latter is sent to the mint. The church
| es are carefully searched and valuaOles
found are seized and converted into
coin.
The chief of the secret police has
| been arrested.
The Commune is trying TO enforce
its rules against the departure of
| persons without passports. Even Wo-
men are prevented from lesving the
| city. Notwithstanding these precau-
| tiOns, over half a million people have
| left since the troubles commenced.
The supply of milk has ceased and
the prices of provisions are rising.
PARIS, April i4.-ArtilleFy firing
south and west Of Paris ceased to-
night.
Several battalions of the National
Guard were dissrmed for hostility to
the Commune, and their places i'm
mediately filled.
1t has been ordered by the Com
mune that the red flag only shall be
carried by the Nationals, and hOisted
over places occupied by them. All
other cOlOrs are suppressed.
Forts Issy and Vanvers have been
supplied with American mitrailleuses.
The Paris and Lyons railroad has
been cut.
LONDON, April IA, p.m.-The Yer
sailles forces have been repulsed
everywhere around Paris.
LONDON, April n Dispatches
from Paris, dated yesterday, state
that many shells had been fired into
Paris and caused great damage.
Shells are continually falling, and it
Is reckOned that house property,
valued at two million francs, has
been destroyed already.
The Government is endeavOring to
obtain the use of Prussian guns
against Belleville and MOntmartre.
VERSAILLES, April 14.-A violent
cannOnsde is Kept up at Asnlere5. but
without important effect. At Clam
mart the insurgents continue to fire
on our ranks, but their guns are
harmless,
The report that the insurgents have
re-captured Neuvilly Is false.
LONDON, April 14.-The Tines spe-
cial from Versailles says the arrival Of
General Fabrice, German adnainistra-
tor, is consequent upon the receipt of a
notification from the Versailles Gov
eminent of its intention to make a
supreme effort to capture Paris.
The MaillOt gate is an utter wreck.
A battalion Of Nationals from Quar-
tier st. Georges refused to 90 on the
ramparts, and forcihly resisted an at
| tempt to compel them to do 50.
The Daily Nei0s has separate dis
| patches from Paris stating that oirous-
set, Communist delegate and Minister
Of Foreign Affairs, declares Cancellation
| impossible,
A quantity Of guns have been seized
| ia the shop Of an American dealer.
Two American contractors have Of
| tered to buy the column Vendone and
cast It into cannon.
A dispatch from Versailles says that
the Assembly hiss adopted, by q vote