Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-04-07
KILOGRAMS TO THE STAR.
This Afternoons Dispatches.
Associated Press Reports.
IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE,
The Civil War in France!
ANOTHER SEIGE OF PARIS,
The City Invested by the Assembly's Forces
The New Reign Of Terror-Terrible Scenes
IN Paris-Wsr Against the Church
Churches Sacked, Priests Nal.
treated and Jesuits Shot,
KILOGRAMS TO THE STAR,
ANOTHER sEIGE OF PARIS,
felegrdphed ErciGsipely to Tie 1sesiac Sto,.
Paris Desieged by Frenchmen,

VERSAILLES, April 9, via LONDON, April :,
$50 a. m.-The insurgents have been dislodged
from the bridge Of Neuilly. A fierce cannonade
is kept up between Chatlon and Forts Issy and
Nanyres. deputation of Partisan merch ants
nave waited upon Theirs and held q consulta-
ton. A bill has been introduced into Tia AS
sembly TO accelerate the action of the courts
martial. 1t Is apparently the purpose of the
commander OF the Versailles army TO invest the
capital. Inc lines are already established on
the left bank of the Seine. Bagneux has been
occupied, and the occupation of Shay and
Choisy lie Roi will soon follow.
Extreme Measures ofthe Communists
PARIS, April 8, via LONDON, April 4 3 30 q.
m.-Ihe commune DEGREES the arrest OF ali
persons accused of completely with Versailles
and jury OF investigation will decide who shall
De detained as hostages. Every execution of a
national taken prisoner or civil partisan OF the
commune by the Versailles officers will be i'm
medistely followed by the execution of a treble
NUMBER OF hostages. The reorganizat alton of the
national guards will give the Commune 100 GO1
picked men. The present policy is TO maintain
an attitude Of defence. Rochefort's journal Is
by the commune.
The War ON the Church,
LONDON, April - a. ma special dispatch
70 the DAILY Nevs says that all the officers aud
nave been arrested by the communists.
Groussits has been appointed by the iusur-
gent delegates Minister Of Foreign Affairs He
has sent out circular addressed 10 the repre-
sentatives Of France abroad, notifying them of
mune. WIN
The army of Versailles is waiting for baavv
artillery TO attack Issy Palace.
The Peace Conference.
Inc pleniPotensaries OF France and Ger
urdsy.
The Position OF the Commuusst.
The nationals have been ordered TO retire be-
hind the forts and remain on the Defensive
Bougeret claims that the fire of the forts has
a ha 0n 49, 49, q.
vanced positions. The commune il making re-
QUESTIONS on the shops for arms and ammuni-
ton.
Terrible Scenes I'm Paris.
BRUSSELS, April GA nun who escaped from
Pans and arrived here to-day reports that the
churches have been sacked, priests insulted
arrested, and maltreated, and the converts en-.
tered at night and searched. A rumor pre-
vailed before she left that twenty Jesuits had
been shot. nj. Assy succeeded in escapIng from
Paris after he had been hunted by the com
Funeral Of the Communists KilIed
I'm Battle.
PARIS, April 6.-The funeral OF the killed to-
Gay was an extraordinary scene. There were
three huge hearses, with black velvet pals.
each decorated with twelve red flags, containing
the dead. Following them were 5000 National
GUARDS and double that number Of citizens
Women were marching in hundreds past and
along the boulevards at a solemn pace. MANY
members of the Commune joined the PROCESSION
when they arrived at Pere la Chaise. Each
hearse contained thirty-three collins, and TWEEN
ty-three other hearses were already in the GEM
etery hlled with the dead from the hospital, II
was an awful scene; one huge grave for an
ne bodies were lowered one at a time amidst
the shrieks of women and the shouts of men for /
vengeance on the assassins of Versailles Pere
la Chaise was one mass Of people swayins With |
passion and screaming "yive Ia Republic.D |
"Viye Ia Commune" The losses of the Com |
munists creates great grief in the city, mixed |
with bitter luminosity.
a Trace.
VERSAILLES, april 8, 8 p, m.-Firing has |
ceased tor the present.
Another Battle I'm Progress
LONDON, April IA dispatch from Versailles
to-day state that q violent cannonadins was |
heard both last night and this morning IN the |
direction OF Conberoie to the northeast OF Paris
and Chatillon south OF that city. The rumor |
that Gen. Henry had been executed by order OF |
the Versailles government Is rather apocryphal |
in view Of the Tact cabled 70 you on the attn /
instant, that the special correspondent of the |
London telegraph saw him Killed by a shell |
from Fort Ealerian. The story was probably /
circulated by the insurgents TO fan the excite /
ment against the government. NJ Resuiere i
who has been suspected OF an attempt At neoo
tation with the Versailles govern ment has been /
arrested ndimprisoned by order of the Cpm- |
mune.
- Dead.
Baron Leghetoff. the distinguished Austrian
Admiral, who won the naval battle OF LISA in
1855, and superintended in 1858 the removal /
Of the remains OF the ex-Enperor MAMMALIAN /
from Mexico % Trieste, died yesterday at his |
residence In Vienna.