A telegram to the second edition of yesterday's Times from,
Versailles says, quoting from a German official document :—" All around Orleans the country people, instigated to fight by the priests, who have been ordered by Bishop Dupanloup to preach a. crusade, have begun a guerilla warfare against the Germans.. Patrols are fired at from every building and every hedge. Officers carrying orders are shot down by labourers, seemingly working in the fields, but provided with rifles as well as spades. To avenge these assassinations, all non-soldiers carrying arms are immediately executed. Not a few priests are now awaiting trial." Would the Germans themselves do otherwise if the French were investing Ber- lin and penetrating into Silesia? Clearly this is the sort of spirit on which those who either undertake wars of conquest, or turn wars of defence into wars of conquest, ought to reckon. France will not. be conquered if this is the general temper of the people.
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