Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-08
Foreign Notes.
AFFAIRS IN FRANCE.


VERSAILLES, April 6.-Apparently the pur-
pose of the commander of the Versailles army is
TO completely invest the capital. Lines are al
ready established on the left bank Of the Seine.
BagneauX has been occupied, and the occupa-
ton of fHay and PHoeisy lie Rol will soon fol-
low. The nationals have been ordered to retire
behind the forts and remain on the defensive.
A Brussels dispatch states that the nun who
escaped from Paris arrived there to-day reports
that the churches have been sacked, the priests
insulted, ousted and matreated, and the con-
vents entered at night and searched A rumor
prevailed that twenty Jesuits had been shot and
all the officers and professors of the College of
Jesuits in Paris arrested by the communists.
PARIS, April 6.-The commune DEGREES the
arrest OF all persons accused of completely with
Versailles, and jury of investigation will de-
eide who shall be detained as hostages Every
execution of a national taken prisoner or of a
civil partizan of the commune by Versailles
officers will be Immediately followed by the ex-
ecution of treble the number OF hostages
AT the funeral of dead insurgents to-day 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.
Each hearse contained thirty-three collins, and
twenty-three other hearses were in the cemetery
filled with dead from the various hospitals. 1t
was an awful SOMEONE huge grave for all.
The bodies were lowered, one at a time, amid
the shrieks of women and the shouts of men for
vengeance on the assassins of Versailles. Pere
Chaise was one mass of people, swaying with
passion and screaming, give la Repubique!'
give la Communep
VERSAILLES, April 7.-Violent cannonadlng
was heard last night and this morning in the
direction of COurberoie, northeast of Paris. and
Chatillon, south of that city.
The government troops made vigorous at
tack upon the insurgent nationals at Neuilly,
and were aided therein by the fire of Fort Mont
Valerien and the batteries at Courbevorl. The
combat still continues, and the nationals have
everywhere abandoned the offensive for the de-
fensiye. A large force of insurgents is at Genne-
villiers, surrounded by government troops. A
bold attempt has been made by them to pierce
the lines of the Versailles army and return to
Paris, but it proved utterly futile
PARIS, April 6.-Several shells have burst
within the walls in Avenue dc Plmperatrice. The
communists are determined to continue the
struggle, and have greatly strengthened the for.
tifications at Montmartre and Batignolles. Gen
Cluseret is reorganlzing the national guards
The party of Cancellation are rebuilding tbeil
efforts. Several placards devoted to their object
have appeared, all of which demand complete
municipal liberty for Paris. Hopes are enter
tanned that an armistiee of forty-eight hours will
be concluded for the exchange of prisoners.