Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24
Paris Captured by the VersaiIIists.
Communists Retire Before The VictOrs.
Miscellaneous and Washington News.
MIscELLANY
vERsAILBIsTs sFORCE THE GATES
... AND ENTER PARIS.
IeayN Fighting Mithin one CIV.

Heavy Fighting within the city.
New YoRI<, May 22.-The Vorlols cable
dispatches from Paris this afternoon SAYS
All is over. Seventy thousand Versaillists
have already entered the city, and more
are now coming. They were marching i'm
all night, coming through six gates, and
met with but slight resistance. The barri-
cades Were not defended, and no mines
were exploded.
The Versaillists are now moving on the
Hotel de Vile, where the Communists
will make their last stand.
The Nersaillists behaved splendidly. and
are committing no excuses.
Theirs circular announces that General
Donai rushed into Paris through the gate
Of st. Cloud.
Later advices state that Donai holds his
position inside the walls.
A white flag was hoisted at Anteville
gate, where two regiments entered.
Malakoff and Fort Montrouge were
abandoned by the insurgents.
1t is stated that Pyatt, Gronesset, and
other Commune leaders, had disappeared
The only Commune generals now outside
of the walls are Dombrowski in the Bots de
Boulogne, and Wroblewsid at Chantilly
Still later advices say the Versaillists
had reached the Arc de Triomphe, and
that thegans on the ranlparts were turned
upon the insurgents. IlN
n Twenty thousand men are under the
walls of lssy, and forty thousand more are
moving on the open gates. o..
PARIS, May 2I.-This afternoon three
squadrons of cavalry were reviewed amid
a tremendous excitement. Gems. Herriri
and Fortune presented them with stand
ards, and they shouted: 1--WE will defend
them till DEATH Soon afterwards Petit
Vanvres, by order of the commander, was
| evacuated in order TO shelter Montague.
AT six O'Clock tonight the Versaillists
entered the La Meritte gate, and sharp
| fighting ensued.
Extraordinary rumors are afloat. e
1t is reported that theVersaillists have
been repulsed.
Mounted orderlies have just -afriyed at
the war office with news.
Col. Lisboune, commanding the Franc
Tireurs, started Immediately to attack the
| Fersaillists In the flank.
! LONDON, May Accommodation
| with Paris has been suspended.
The Prussians have cut the northern
railroad.
! The capture of Dombrowslxi is reported.
The bombardment of the portion of the
Paris Notifications, held by the insurgents
still continues.
A Versailles dispatch this morning says
that the Versaillists hold the gates of St
Cloud, Passy, Anteville, Trocadere and
| Minette.
Half of the Versailles army is within
the walls. H.. a-EFE
Heavy firing is heard in the Champs
| Elyses.
VERSAILLES, May 22.-General Dom.
| browski, who was reported as taken
prisoner by the Versailles troops, is said to
have been recaptured by his own men,
and since made an attempt to escape from
Paris, and it is now stated that he and his
commandlare surrounded near st. Quentin
and will probably be captured. a
PARIS, May 22.-Afternoon.-The Yer
sailles army has occupied Paris. The
; headquarters of Marshal Mcmahon are
established in the new Opera House. TIL,
headquarters of General Cissy, whose
forces entered the city from the South, are
i'm the Ecole Mlitaire, which fronts the
= Champs de Mars -z-a-- ---,--sra----s--
There was great explosion near the
Esplanade DIES Invalides.
LONDON, May 22.-The steamer Paro-
quay, hence to New York, returned dam
aged by running down the screw steamel
Webb. The Webb sunk Immediately
There were thirteen lives lost.