19 NOVEMBER 1870, Page 3

A report seems to be prevalent in Normandy, and is

repeated by the Rouen journals, of a grand naval victory gained by the French fleet. They steamed into Jahde, sacrificed two frigates to explode the torpedoes, and cut out the entire German Fleet. As there is no conceivable reason why Rouen should know all that before Hamburg, or the Hague, or Tours, or London, we mention it only as one of the inventions which French journalists are at last beginning to abandon. If they could all be hanged comfortably and without much personal pain until the war is done, Europe would sympathize much more completely with the heroism of France.