The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-05-22
TIE FRENCH REVOLUTION. =
Heavy Fighting Around Paris Executions in
the City-The Germans will Not Interfere
The Archbishop OF Paris Selected for 81
Execution, &C., sc. j.. =. a i,sl..s
NO GERMAN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IN THE

NO GERMAN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN THE
MINISTRY. $50 go.
LONDON, May 20.-The following is sum-
mary of the latest dispatches -.
a special TO the Daily Neaos says the re-
port that the Germans would aid in the
attack on Paris is unfounded. Another
dispatch says Simon and Favre will leave
the French letters, and that private letters
implicate Gambetta In conspiracy against
the Versailles Government. A flag of truce
from Paris has arrived ut Versailles. Roche
forts arrest at Mieux is reported.
STATE OF AFFAIRS IN PARIS. ~
The Commune has ordered the occupants
of corner buildings to evacuate them, and
the buildings to be loop-holed for the use of
musketry. The Central Committee has as
sumed the war power, and the Commune is
determined to take the offensiv68gainst the
Versaillists. Another account is that they
have determined to blow up the ramparts.
The Communists claim that they repulsed
yesterday the attacks at Neuilly, Cichy,
Issy, and Vauvrcs. :.
EoCHEFoRT AT VERSAILLES!
VERSAILLES. May 20.-Rochefort was ar
rested Yesterday at MieuX, while attempt
ing to escape from the Commune, and has
been brought here.
NEWS FROM THE FRONT.
PARIS, May 20-Euening.-An important
Engagement took place near Anteuil this
morning, but the result is as yet unknown.
Fort Montrouge still holds out. The Gov
ernor of Fort Bicetre has been arrested.
The Versaillists in the Bots de Boulogne
have made seven distinct assaults upon the
ramparts. Great numbers OF the Com
munists are stationed at the threatened
points. The bastions facing the German
positions are being repaired.
The minority party in the Commune and
Military Commission is being replaced by
Communists of q more radical type. The
Church of Notre Dame DIES Victories, in
Paris, which was sacked, is now occupied
by inSurgent troops.
MADNESS OF THE PARIS MoB-EXECUTI0Ns IN
TIE o1TY-THE ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS Sc
LECTED TO BE EXECUTED.
PARIS, May 20.-Two spies were shot
yesterday, and four persons were con-
demned to death upon the charge of COM
plicity in the recent explosion In Trocadera
Street, and will be shot tonight. The Cen
trail Committee is again the principal power
in Paris, and acts in concert with the Com
mittee Of Public Safety. The journals OF
the Commune declare that the Federal po-
sition is strong, and that their improved
OISdulLitlOu LAS SLCaIlJ slA0ASeu0hSo ppu-
Lie confidence.
PARIS, May 20.-[ World special.l-The
Prusslans at Bondy and Aubervilliers have
been strongly reinforced. The first hostages
selected for execution are the Archbishop
of Paris and the Abbess de Query and the
Abbess de Croze.
HEAVY BATTLE AROUND PARIS.
PARIS, May 20-Might.-At noon yester-
dav the Versaillists attacked the st. Cloud
gate. At TX P. nj. the combat ragged ut
Neuilly, and at 2 o'clock the line Of battle
extended from the Bots de Boulogne to the
Cl!chz gate. Twenty thousand troops were
engaged, but there was no decisive results.
RATIFICATION OF TIE TREATY OF PEACE.
FRANKFORT, May Bismarck, Fayre,
and Ponyer Quertier, arrived here to-day
for the purpose of exchanging Publications
of the treaty of peace. ALI the public
buildings and great many. private resi-,
dences are decorated with flags In honor Oh
ban