31 DECEMBER 1870, page 1

The Standard Publishes A Telegram From Pere Announcing...

Charles of Roumania has declared the independence of the Principalities. This is, we imagine, a very natural exaggeration of a step taken some days since by the flospodar, the......

The German Telegrams Are Rapidly Diminishing In Accuracy,...

written for the special benefit of Paris. Throughout the week - the authorities at Versailles have steadily represented that General Faidherbe was defeated at Noyelles on the......

News Of The Week.

T HE new work at Mont Avron was bombarded by the Germans all Tuesday and Wednesday (27th and 28th December) ; on the 28th the batteries of the place were apparently silenced,......

Somebody Or Other In Spain Aeems To Think It Worth

while to kill Marshal Prim. He was in his carriage with one of his adju- tants driving to the Ministry of War, when some persons fired a volley into the vehicle. The Marshal......

General Trochu Is Building Such Works Below Mont Val6rien...

the German leaders are unable to account for them, and the favourite theory in Versailles and Berlin is that he intends to abandon Paris, and retire with his army to the......

To Set Off Against This Misfortune To Paris, The News

from the Garibaldian quarter is very favourable to the French. It seems -clear that for some time back General Werder's occupation of Dijon has been very precarious. In the......

The Object Of General Trochu's Sortie Of Wednesday Week Re-

mains still partially unexplained. It was apparently meant to be serious, 100,000 men being held in readiness, a great force of artillery, and the railway mitrailleuses ; but......

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