The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1871-04-15
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NV YoRK, April 10.-A Versailles special
to morning paper reports the death Of Gen.
eral Richot from wounds received.
Siege guns are arriving. The Government
has resolved to enter Paris by storm at any
cost. rather than lombard the city.
The FIRE from Fort Valerien Is for the pur-
pose of clearing the ramparts and to prevent
artillery from being used TO repel an attack.
A partial breach has been made in the forti6-
cations. The snrtie yesterday against Chat
tilon was repulsed with heavy loss. Issv.
Mount Rouge and Vanvres FIRE necessarily
with slight damage. Vinoy keeps command
until Tuesday.
The Paris merchants have sent a deputa-
ton to Theirs. They returned without any
satisfactory result. Cancellation is impessi-
hle. The Assembly had no meeting on SUD-
day. The members went to mass A Paris
special reports that Commune bulletin says
the Versailles forces have been Withdrawn
from the Necilly' bridge aud the Nationals
are eager to advance, but are not allowed to.
The Church of Norte Dame has been sacked
Rochefort tried in vein to saveit. The great.
er part of the valnahles were taken out.
The Archbishop of Paris was sent to prison.
General Henri was sent TO Belle Isle. De
inent Communists, reported arrested
The Commune is controlled by secret Com
mittee. 1t has no known chief. Verguer
to-day says Piatt declares that the suppress.
sion of newspapers is an act of common public
safety.
Paris, April 10--Unless the Germans
save us. Paris will swim in blood. The Com.
mune is growing more desperate, commit
ting fearful excuses. Conciergerie is filled
with priests and nuns, who are arrested on
warrants by persons calling themselves chi
zens. styled "Sergants of the Person called
God" Archbishop Durbec was stripped
naked. bound to pillar, and scourge1 and
Knocked for hours by band of two hundred
Reds.
PARIS, April H. World cable. An as.
sault on Porte Maillott isexpected Tomorrow
the breach being practicable. The Commune
are barricading the strents. They have un.
der command over 100000 desperate men.
The work of carrying the barricades will be
fearfully bloody. A correspondent has inter.
viewed the Central Committee. They ex.
press disappointment and disgust at the work
of the Commune, who have aped the revclu
tienists of 1898. saying their folly will alien.
ate the provinces and we will have the whole
world against us. We must resume the
power entrusted to the Commune. They are
incapable of legislating or directing military
operations. We who created them must sci
them aside. Nothing is left us now but tc
annihilate Versailles, or he anniailated. I'm
less Versailles is overthrown, We and the Re
public are lost.
BERLIN, April 1.-THE Cross Gazette saws
the British Government is erdesvoring tc
persuade Germany to restore order in Paris.
LONDON, April 1.-THE Paris insurgents
are said to have made a demand upon the
Church for one million francs, and vow they
will kill the Archbishop of Paris if it is not
paid. Favre, In a speech to the National As
senlbly, said that allthe powers had expressed
their sympathies with the Government OF
Versailles as the only Legitimate Government
Of France. He also stated that the German
administrator in France, General Fabrirs
had declined the overtures made to him by
the Cummunes. which he believed mus,
shortly succumb to the Government.