FORT ISSY STILL HELD BY THE COMMUNISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 433, 31 May 1871, Page 2

FORT ISSY STILL HELD BY THE COMMUNISTS.

FLAGS OF TRUCE. NOT RECOGNISED

CLUSERET TO BE TEISD FOB, COMPLICITY WITH THE PRUSSIANS.

THE EXPULSION OF THE ORLEANS

PEINOES,

THE ORDER MA#E BY THIERS, AND NOT THE COMMUTE.

New York, May 4th.—A despatch from Paris last night confirms the statement that Fort Issy has been re-occupied by the. Commune. .

Torpedoes are placed near the southern forts. On a trial of them five houses wore blown into the air. Batteries will be placed to menace several points of the ramparts, and rails for the purpose will b»laid in forty-eight hours. . "

General Sossel forbids all communication with the enemy. No flag of truce will be attended to, and firing will go on as itsual. A special correspondent telegraphed from Paris at a late hour last night that the inhabitants of the Avenue Deiylous received notice to leave the avrondissement within twentyfour hours.

Concierges are ordered to make returns of all persons occupying apartments. The Versailles army jis investing actively,, and a decisive action is imminent.

A balloon with letters left the Hotel cle Ville to-day.

A great meeting or all the Republican so.

cieties is called for Sunday in the court yard of the Louvre. Ledru Kollin will preside. It is reported that Cluseret will be tried for complicity with the Prussians. Dombrowski will be a member of the court-martial.

Seals hare been placed on the oniees of several notaries public, by order of the commune. Vebsailles, May 4th. —The Versailles forces hare carried by assault the Insurgent position at Saquefc Mill. One hundred and fifty Communists were killed, and ten cannon and three hundred prisoners captured. The Mill was, howaver, evacuated by the Versailles troops, as it is exposed to a destructive fire from the insurgent fortifications. Saquet Mill is south of and about-one mile from Forts Bicetre and Ivrv. The approaches to Fort issy are completely surrounded, and it is impossible for the garrison to escape. The c annonade and musketry fire continues, but the engagements are unimportant.

Sixty prisoners have arrived. Favre has gone to Brussels to participate in the negotiations.

London, May 4.—A. Daily News correspondent at Versailles says : " On Tuesday night, three divisions, com- ■ rnanded by 'McMahon, advanced toward the Enciente through tho Bois de Boulogne. The entire Army Corps was ordered to follow, but. owing to circumstances imprudent to explain, the advance was not made." Thiers refuses the commercial treaty with Germany, i Bismarck,protests against unjust discrimi- : nations. Versailles, May 4.—The Assembly yesterday debated the removal of magistrates, on account of their political antecedents, by Gambetta, during the administration of the Government of the National Defence. Dufam-e, Procureur-General, said some of these officials had been reinstated, but, on the whole, he prefered Gambetta's magistrates to those appointed by Napoleon.

It was Thiers, and not the Paris Commune, who issued the recent order for the expulsion of the Orleans Princes.

Bbttssels, May 4th—Baron Yon Arnim has gone to Berlin, and the French Plenipotentiaries to Versailles, for fresh instructions.

London, May 4th.—Rumors ars circulating that the insurrection in Algeria is extending, and that the Government at Versailles is heedless of the growing danger.