THE WAR.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2373, 9 November 1870, Page 2

THE WAR.

(from oreville’s telegram company, r.El'l'Eu's AGENTS.) BAZAINE’S PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. Wo find in the Paris correspondence o the Gazette do Lausanne, a plan of campaign submitted by Marshal Baizaine to the Emperor, at the very beginning of hostilities, and, in fact, immediately after the declaration of war:Military Prussia, said the general, may l;c compared to a clock —wound and set going, she keeps wonderful regularity and precision ; but before being wound and set going, she is a body without life. If I can get 40,000 soldiers, a corps (Velite, the greater portion of which good cavalry, with Zouaves and Tnrcos, 1 undo l take to cross the whole of Germany like a storm, before any organisation can he effected by the enemy, upsetting everything on my way—railroads, telegraphs, and administration of every kind ; burning legistrars and .oflices, sowing disorder and terror wherever I passed, and in fact destroying the very springs of the Prussian clockwork. It will lie the duty of the remainder of the French army—that is to say, of a mass of from 250,000 to 300,000 men, to turn the confusion of the enemy to good account. Ido not guarantee the re turn of one of my 40,000 men ; my sole object will be to disconnect and to destroy, rushing like a devastating torrent towards the Baltic, where our vessels will be read}' to receive the debris of my phalanx. This rash, but not impracticable, plan was rejected ; and yet, what else was it than a repetition of -Sherman’s bold march through Georgia, in the campaign of IBi>4—a march which brought on the fall of Richmond, the capital of the Slave States. In the same way, Bazaine’s hold conception, if carried out from the beginning, might have fallen like lightning on Germany surprised, and have been productive of most decisive results.