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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 792, 9 February 1871, Page 2

The Times correspondent reports that the French have plundered a part of the convoy under the charge of Mr Thomas, of London, for the sick and wounded. Assurances of the fall of Sedan was conveyed to Marshal Bazaine in an ingenious manner. Bazaine had just released 600 Prussian prisoners ; the Prussian commander could not better return the civility than by releasing the same number of French, and these were selected in such a manner that about one-quarter of them consisted of soldiers who had foughtand capitulated at Sedan. Although the French would have discredited any Prussian account of M'Mahon's disaster, Bazaine was not likely to doubt the veracity of the report emanating from French soldiers, and confirmed several hundred times from eye witnesses and actors in the dreadful tragedy.