THE FRENCH SITUATION.
iTtfE F-reneh situation tiien, may bs si sited as ifollows : the flower of the army is cjestroyeft";" jut least 300,000 veteran troops are pr/t bu't;-o'f ithfrfieldi"•-• There is no other ,force capable,.of :resisting the 500,000 victorious Germans who hare shared in the month's fighting, and? who are supported by, another 500,U00 of well drilled reserves," already iri the Sold, near the frontier, and advancing to the interior. ' No tivops can be spared from Paris, and the, armies forming at Lyons and beyond tlie Loire consist of raw levies ...which, though they? may number respectively fi-om : 100,000.ta 200,000, as asserted, will not bo a match for the German veterans; inspired with victory r - and. massed in superior numerical force. If Paris ia attacked, it will of course be defended with desperate valour:; but it seems iinp'ossible:fcha.t it can be so.successfully .defended,-around a wall 22 miles in circumference, that the besiegers will be unable to effect a breach through which, they cait j charge ia force.-rr-iiittstin, Sept: 12. ** ' J K> ' z* a
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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 242, 18 October 1870, Page 2
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173THE FRENCH SITUATION. Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 242, 18 October 1870, Page 2
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