Ur Russell says military men at Versailles speak with the utmost enthusiasm of the grand plan of attack on all the French positions which General Moltke had prepared for the opening of hostilities. In two days the German armies would have been engaged in sweeping away the levies which have been collected to oppose them at every point where they stood in force. It is said that an advance on five great fronts, converging on certain points, would have led to the most complete discomfiture yet seen of the armies of Framce,
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2580, 25 May 1871, Page 2
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92Untitled Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2580, 25 May 1871, Page 2
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