THE LAST DAYS OF THE COM MUNE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2617, 20 April 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE LAST DAYS OF THE COM MUNE.

.Ukli.lviu.i-; was attacked on the mora iug of the 'iljr.h, soon atier daybreak. General Clinohamp approached it from the ramparts, ami General Bruat's division .•.ininltanouiuly marched on the quarter from the direction of the Rue de I'aris. Tau d'.'f-jucu was very obstinate and tin; t'-O'ip. liv! to take scvei. ti'imui't-..- ';. i-i'-- ■ •■in. After a whih-

tli'' i-i.•>)'.■ I -■: '.-.l'r-I t'j ...-urender, on conililitMj thai tin-iii 1 live.-, were spared. Tin.-, was peremptorily refused, mill the ttinggio continued till the position unearned, oeveral cannons and twouty-tw.' red Hags full to tin.; lot of the victors, and ;v largo number of the insurgents wore • luMpntclieil o>i the spot. "An English Medical Student," who puts forth some of his experiences on the last days of the Commune, says that the commander of a 'Belleville battalion with which ho was serving was u. ragpicker, who had commanded a barricade in IS-18. The men wore good lighting men, though horrible blackguards and drunkards. This writer saw a battalion of women lighting, and firing admirably with Snider ritles. Among them were many pretty-looking young girls, " They fought like devils," siys the medical student ; "far bett'T than men ; and I had the pain of seeing .3'-! shot down, oven when they had been surrounded by the troops and disarmed. I saw about (JO men shot at the same place as the women, at the same time. While Paris was blazing in the night, the cannon roaring, and the muskets rolling, a poor woman was crouching inside a cart, and crying !)iti:eily. I offered her a glass of wine ai,d a p ; ece of bread. She refused it saying, ' For the short- June I have, to !i.e, 1 shall not need it.' I saw the poor w.-.'iu-ui about to be st'iy.i"! by four roopers. I he n I the haish vote ■ o ! ' the commandin IX oliicer interrogative the woman piyiri", 'You arc Ij:,iv->—you have '.died two of my im.>" ' The woman laughed rle> isively, and r -.:,.jaded in a Lirlenu-l manner, 'i!a> i-ho curse of the A'mij'h'.y always rest up.,-., mo for not killing more ! Ih id two r ; 0:,.-i at Issy, v.-bo were ir.dh killed, an I Neuilly, w no--iia. e'■ ike s-in'j late. .My husband (I- ■ a*' this '•larricade ; and now do with me That von wili." 'I heir ''will :I was

%..-. <:h- si:..ml.! ~;..-. The word of i.;/ inland v.m--. givi'i!, r.iiit the wretched cr ■.!;■:i-j was shot. A woman who i.in. ..s herself wiih eombaianta must

; ,i-iro tin; f.,.0 ol the iiien ; but there was no ucc-jiur tr.i.;>--dy i.! the whole civil war than the stoiy of tiii.i poor fanatic.— J-"Yoin CiijM:ir.'i illustrated History of the War. ___________