Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-14
Miscellaneous Dispatches.
Domestic Notes.
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| FRANCE.
| PARIS April 12--The cannonade which was
sustained all Tuesday night was continued Wig
| orously Wednesday morning, and simultane
| ous attack was made on the west and south, the
| Versailles troops opening with thirty new anC
heavy guns. The principal effort was directed
against Vanvres. 1t is supposed that they in
| tended to mask a serious movement agains
Porte Maillot. AT one time there was a genera
| alarm over report that the Versailles troops
were inside of the city, but the communists now
announce that the attack everywhere failed
Porte Mailot had been shattered by the guns o.
Fort Valerien. The cannonade lasted all day
numerous shells reaching the Arc de Triomphe
1t was intended to disperse bodies of communis
troops. The latter, advancing from Choisy Il
Roi, were driven back on the Orleans railway
which had been cut by the Versailles troops
The condition of Paris is unchanged. The com
mune grants passports more literally. Roche
fort writes boldly against the commune, de
Douncing Pyat and his set as abominable tyrants
if not more probably downright fools. The ma
tionals, refusing to fight, have been disarmed
Dombrowski now holds possession of three-quar.
tiers Of the town of Neuilly. He now commands
the insurgents, but was PIussian spy during
the siege of Paris.
surgents has advanced to Clamart without
meeting with opposition. Theirs is opposed to
bringing on decisive action until $4,000 add.
tional men shall have reinforced the Versatile.
army. Guizot, in q letter on state affairs in
France to-day, approves of the conduct of the
assembly, trusts that the struggle will be short
and expresses confidence that the result is both
certain and decisive. The portion of the Yer
sailles army engaged upon the outlying forts to
the south of Paris has suffered greatly in killed
and wounded. The communists have sur.
rounded and will probably capture three thou
sand gendarmes near Asnieres. General Dom.
bouski is very popular with his troops. He de
clares he will burn Neuilly, Vilers and PuteauX
it necessary for the defence of Paris. The bonn
bardment of the Maillot gate continues. A bat.
| terry of big guns has been mounted in the avenue
du Trocadero pointing towards Fort Valerien
The nationals are massed near the arch of tri
umph. Gen. Dombrouski has selected Asnieres
as the centre of operations against Courbevoie
Longchamps and Asnieres are both well forti
fed. Paris is calm, but the exodus of the in
habitants continues.
There IS great concentration of troops before
Paris Marshal McMahon has gone to Villele
tang, and decisive attack upon the insurgen
positions is expected. Theirs is now opposed t.
Cancellation, and thinks that the success of the
army is certain. Theirs, in a circular of the
18th, describes the situation as in the main un.
changed, and says that the government will act
at the proper time. The commune accounts oil
the victory at Paris are as false as they are UNI
principled. Our victory will come bloodlessly.
Paris delegates have arrived and were received
not because they are communists, but because
they are republicans. My answer to them was
that "No one menaces the republic but assas.
sins. The lives of the insurgents will be spared,
but the workmen, temporarily subsidized in
Paris, must return to their labors and secession
be suppressed as it has been in America" Gssksii