THE WAR IN EUROPE.
Om- contemporary, the Daily Times, published the following “Extra.” this afternoon. We give it for what it is worth, without knowing the authority on which it was based. We ourselves have received no corresponding advice : An expedition, comprising 350 French ships, wdth 40,000 men, arc preparing to sail for the B:dtic ; hence Elsinore is reported to bo the basis of French operations. France, it is said, intends to bombard all the Prussian towns on the Baltic, and laud a hundred thousand of an army on its coast, thus taking Prussia in the rear fast. A Prussian despatch boat is watching the progress of the French ironclads. Strategists profess to make out that the battle at Metz, notwithstanding late engagements, will be on very equal terms. The French Baltic Expedition is considered an effective Hank movement. _____________
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2298, 17 September 1870, Page 2
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139THE WAR IN EUROPE. Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2298, 17 September 1870, Page 2
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