Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 17, 2025
Heavy guns, mounted on armored cars, moved to and fro on the Belt Railway, shelling Asnieres over the roofs of Levallois. It was at Vanves and Issy, however, that the cannonade was fiercest; it shook the windows of Paris as the siege had done when it was at its height.
Its fall had been officially promised at that hour, but up to half-past 6 it was still standing. It will probably fall to-day. The tricolour flag has just been attached to the statue, amid faint cheers from the crowd. An Armistice has been arranged for next Wednesday, to enable the inhabitants of Vanves and the neighbourhood to remove. Cluseret, Megy, and Schoelcher have been released.
After the fright caused by this last requisitionnement, two of the servants thought it expedient to find safer quarters in the center of Paris, and to live in seclusion, rather than run the risk of being requisitioned themselves. The forts Mont Valerien, Montrouge, Vanves, and Issy keep up an incessant firing.
Forts Montrouge and Vanves have been reduced to silence by a battery of mitrailleuses established on a parapet of Issy, which picks off Federal artillerymen when they show themselves. Seven guns on bastions 72, 73, and 74 have been dismounted by the new battery of Montretout and the bastions silenced. Many prisoners are said to have been taken at Issy yesterday.
The Insurgents have shot a captain of Engineers who imprudently advanced beyond the Versailles lines. In the Fort of Vanves a soldier of the Line has been found; his feet were tied together, and there are numbers of bayonet wounds in different parts of his body. The Insurgents had made him prisoner.
The Prussians are supposed to be at work at Chatillon. If they have heavy guns there, it will go hard with the Fort of Vanves. The rations are becoming in some of the arrondissements smaller by degrees and beautifully less. The rations are different in each arrondissement, as the Mayor of each tries to get hold of all he can, and some are more successful than others.
The Versailles troops are under the walls of Paris, and are exchanging shots with the Insurgents on the ramparts from the Muette Gate to the Issy Gate. The Federalists have been driven out of their entrenchments between Forts Vanves and Issy. A battery is being erected in the garden of the Tuileries, from which the Communists will be able to keep up a flank fire upon the Champs Elysées.
All persons in the possession of sulphur and phosphorus must declare to the Commune the amount of each within three days. La Cecilia has again undertaken the command at Petit Vanves. Torpedoes are to be laid down at exposed parts. The night has passed off quietly, and nothing of any importance has transpired.
As the Station is under fire from Fort Vanves I have no doubt that the military found it impossible to hold it, and that if not now in it the Insurgents may re-occupy it whenever they like. Again, there was much boasting about the taking of the Château of Issy.
A bugle sounded and a drum beat from the great fosse under the wall, and a company of piou-pious, red-capped, red-trousered, shambled through their evolutions in a manner to break the heart of a British or a German drill-sergeant. Then out past level fields to little Vanves, with its steep streets and its old gray church, and past the splendid grounds of the Lycée beyond.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking