The only breaching battery that has as yet opened fire is that
established in the Parc aux Princes, at 400 metres distance from the
ramparts. It directs its fire against the _enceinte_ at Auteuil, where
the gates and the drawbridge have been destroyed.
The Fort of Montrouge is almost surrounded by the troops, who advance
also by means of trenches towards the Redoubt of Hautes Bruyeres.
Towards the South a series of attacks have been made, with the view of
driving all the Insurgents on that side from their positions outside the
_enceinte_.
Last night, in an affair at Lagrange, the military put 110 Insurgents
_hors de combat_ and made 43 prisoners.
All the breaching works are not yet completed.
To-day the Insurgents have been firing from La Muette, which is on the
_enceinte_ between Passy and Auteuil, and I observed that they had added
to the number of their guns between the Point du Jour and Montrouge.
Yesterday they had three batteries between those points; to-day they
have been firing from five.
Mont Valerien has done very little to-day, and Montretout has not been
so violent as usual, but the military batteries at Bas Meudon, Les
Moulineanx, and Issy have been very active, as have likewise been the
mortars and field guns in the Bois de Boulogne.
Twenty-one members of the Commune no longer attend the sittings of that
body, but remain in their Arrondissements.
Four hundred Versailles Chasseurs are said to have deserted from their
own side into Paris yesterday.
Batteries of 30 guns have been established at the Dauphine Gate.
The _Cri du peuple_ says the Committee have determined rather to blow up
Paris than capitulate.
A requisition has been made of the silver candlesticks at the Church of
Notre Dame des Victoires.
No one without a special pass is allowed to leave the city at night by
the Eastern or Northern gates.
The Commune has ordered that all prostitutes and drunkards shall be
arrested.
A decree of the Committee of Public Safety, published to-day, orders the
suppression of the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, _Avenir National_, _Patrie_,
_Commune_, _Justice_, and five other newspapers.
No new journals will be allowed to appear until the end of the war.
All articles must be signed by the writer.
Attacks on the Government will be dealt with according to martial law.
Officers who hesitate to obey the orders of the Committee of Public
Safety will be tried for high treason by court-martial.
The _Salut Public_ alleges that one of the chief persons implicated in
the explosion of the cartridge manufactory is Count Ladislas Zamoyski,
and that papers have been found upon him proving him to be in
communication with the Government of Versailles.
The same paper announces that the Germans demand that an armistice
should be entered into between the Commune and the Versailles
Government, in order that a _Plebiscite_ of all France may be held to
decide upon the future form of Government.
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