Abstract

The Week

The article presents information about political developments from various countries. The latest news from Paris has reached the outer world in a most extraordinary way. A member of the Government of National Defence M. Gambetta, was the bearer of it. A severe fight, south of Metz, took place on the 3rd, several brigades being engaged on both sides but the sortie accomplished nothing definite. The wounded French were left, intentionally, on the field. On the following days some fighting and cannonading was carried on around the northern fortifications. Stories of Prussian cruelty and depredations were for a while confined to the Paris papers, whose very extravagance and absurdity, however, rendered their charges harmless. Stories of Russia's preparing for an immediate attack on Turkey, which were put in circulation last week, have disappeared.