IRON WIRE IN WAR.
Tire late Sir Robert Peel once said to the Conservatives in a great speech, I*RegisteiS register, register." In the Mine way it might bo said in the Prussian system of making sieges, " Iron wire, iron wire, iron wire." Not only' nre the trees twined with it, but the very hedges are interlaced with it, mostly to the height of about seven feet. 1 don't know if il will bo worth the while of our military engineers to look into this question, but if I may venture to oiler si humble opiniou, J should say from what I have seen, that the defences thus made are utterly impassable to cavalry and artillery, and are all but impassable to infantry, except at a tearful loss of life. What the Prussians did around Metz, at Jferci le Haut, at Noissy, at Ar.sLequencxy, at Malroi, at Corny, they have done at Thionville and at Phalsburg, and both places arc just wired iu as they would be in a mousetrap.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 794, 28 March 1871, Page 3
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169IRON WIRE IN WAR. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 794, 28 March 1871, Page 3
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