SINGULAR INCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 265, 15 November 1870, Page 2

SINGULAR INCIDENT.

The San Francisco Co» rw/publishes a letter from the Gaulois, which states that at a place called " Jaumont" some Prussians having destroyed the homes of four peasants by burning their houses and offering violence to their daughters, the men determined to have signal and awful revenge, which they obtained in the following manner. They offered themselves as guides to the Prussians, and led them to a place the Prussians thought impregnable, little knowing the awful doom that awaited them. The place where the Prussians had been led to was a mountainous district of the Garonne, with large excavations underneath, which the French had greatly enlarged, and supported with pillars. After the Prussians had ensconced themselves in their stronghold as they thought safely, one of the guides went and informed Bazaine of their whereabouts. Pazaine then attacked ther" in front, and Canrobert in the rear with artillery, fired at the supports of the hill on which the Prussians were. After an hour's firing, the supports gave way, and 20,000 Prussians were engulfed in this human tomb. Their cries were heard four days after, and it being impossible to extricate them, the Prussians had to employ Belgians, at teu francs a day, to fill up the cavern with sand, thus completing the most awful revenge ever heard of.