DECISIVE FRENCH VICTORY ON THE SEINE.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 756, 22 November 1870, Page 4

DECISIVE FRENCH VICTORY ON THE SEINE.

The special correspondent of the World at Boulogne telegraphs that exciting news is received from Rouen of the crowning defeat of the German forces on the south and west of Paris, by the army of Generals Ducrot aud Meuden on the 27th. The French were reinforced on Monday by General Trochu, and advanced on the Gei*man position at Montrenil and Versailles. Early on Tuesday morning the battle began at Viroflay aud Velizy, the Germans contesting the French advance with desperate energy until ihey were assailed by fresh columns advancing from beneath guns of Mont Valerien arid St. Cloud through the Bois de Fausses Reposes and Vancrisson, where a number of regiments of Baden troops mutinied on Iho battle field, and refused to go under fire. Nearly one hundred of these troops were shot by order of the German commander, but the rest still held back, and many throwing down their arms, dispersed through the forests. The Crown Prince was finally compelled to retreat upon Bongival, abandoning Versailles to the victorious French. The German columns which attempted the passage of the Seine at Bongival were kept under a terrible fire from Mont Valerien, which converted the retreat into a rout. They were driven beyond St. Germaift, and n'ght alone stopped the pursuit. The Germans lost 5000 prisoners, among whom were many officers of the staff of the Crown Piince of Prussia, and 50 cannon and mitrailleuses. The road to Orleans and Tours is re opened and cleared of the enemy. The reports from Paris are that the gener.il state of feeling is excellent, perfect order prevailing, and the morale. of the people and troops much improved by the succession of victories of Trochu and the army of defence.