THE WAR IN EUROPE.
LATEST TELEG-RAMS.
(BY ISDO-EUEOPEAS TELEGEAPII.)
The following telegrams are translated from the Continental papers :
Loxdok, August 10.
_ A second Freuch fleet, composed of nine iron clads, passed Dover yesterday, coming from Brest and Cherbourg, en route for the Baltic with troops.
TTiEBTTA, August 9. The unfortunate debut of the campaign has caused consternation among us. The Ministry have deliberated yesterday and to-day, and have resolved to push forward the armament already begun. The dispositions of the army and people towards France are verv favorable.
After which the Opinion Rationale (of Paris) exclaims :
" Forward, then ! take to your gun 3. An army to Munich! Another to Berlin! Forget not, Austra and Hungary, that you aro lost if France succumbs !"
August 10. The Ministerial journals in Berlin state that Prussia docs not make war against the Government of France, but against the nation always maddened by dreams of grandeur, and who for three centuries entertain ideas of dominion over all other nations. The object of the war is to put an end to these pretensions, to crush French pride, and to compensate Germany by the annexation of Lorraine to Bavaria, and Alsace to Baden, erected into a kingdom, with Strasbourg as a capital. A lie !—exclaims the French press —behind which Prussia tries to hide her desires for conquest.
The following petition was presented to the Corps Legislatif by M. G-am-betta:—•
""When the country demands for the defence of her soil, the valiant arms of all her children, the undersigned, who abandon, without murmuring, their wives, their homes, and their positions, protest against a law which loaves inactive, in their seminaries and convents, thousands of young men who have long reached the age of manhood and for military conscription, and whoso presence is not indispensable to the service of religion. " They, therefore, ask that a law be voted immediately calling togother those young men from their seminaries for the defence of the country." (Followed by more than 300 signatures.)
The law was voted on the samo day,
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 723, 13 October 1870, Page 2
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