The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-01-02
Bonn bardment of Paris s--InterestfnE
Statements and speculatiOns.

| aosinst Paris not by that bOmbardment o
.Lo oon;.,, 90 ofto, nrod;ctsd 90 obo,t r.
WV e"p''" s.0
peein, anu pos'poueo ~. 81 n,aoy uu'a,
telllgiole reasons, put against the redouo'
or earthwork on Mount Avron, six miles
east of the city walls. This temporary
dof,,so h., hoa, a oo,,roo Of oroot ornov-
s1s ~ a." .a' csss.s s ~ !. AZ. go,
anoe W Tue oeinia's' fio'u ~ 'no ioie''
OF Bondy has been raked with shells, the
advanced posts of the enemy made. uncom-
fortablv hot their cannons dismopnted
- !, n,o.a.,, ao..;o 80 rooo,o ho. ~ q
aAN - =
gteatly aiaeu .ne french operations against
Gagny and MASON blanche. Ihe New
York Journal of Commerce, referring to
the "situation." remarks:
Iftho corrons hod No ;deo of bo,,hard
,na pa,;. % !. mnnIS h. aoosor ,ooa ~ ' Gu tha;-
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pan;. O. ~ ~. - on I'll -. .es ...oanS
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"n p'uoauy uoy s .;,, ta no no.uins Ia. 81
81. oa no M Pso p;SahIa III D s1'S u.n
ond tsa a,rthnorL hat,or;o so,, h;oh ~ suy, aa,
= ~ w;il III roIa rn,, Viii tarr;hia % su c..
III, VIII rake Avron with terrlble nre.
But allow that Rosny is itself captured
after Avron, the former fort will then be
the centre of fen d enfer from forts
Romainville, Noisy and Nogent, which
will make the chances three to one against
the Prussians keeping Rosny The ex-
ternal system of the defenses of Paris has
its defects, but this great and crowning
merit that except possibly on the west side,
where Mont Valerien keeps its grim watch
and ward over large tract of country.
the forts are SO near together that any two
can, by direct pounding fire, destroy any
intermediate forti6caton which ill-luck
may put in the enemy's hands.
Unless two forts living contiguous can
be captured simultaneously, the Germans
have, therefore, little to hope from at
tempting to reduce those defences. The
operation against Avron is more likely to
be, as we have suggested, an experiment to
the safety and comfort of the be-
'ieging lines, which it tconstantly threatens,
han step taken as the first in series for
he reduction of Paris by bombardment
md assault. Could the Prussians capture
md hold Avrop, they could close up their
'--he nttie aU that point, and make the
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