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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 16, 1870
Page
5
Letter from Paris and dispatches detail food shortages with meat prices and chelse scarce bread and coal, riots and guard injuries, armistice hopes, and army commands. Reports from Lyons Marseilles and Garibaldi's forces show preparations, executions, and public pressure toward continued war.
The circular from the Chancellor of the North German Confederation details Thiers and Paris Government actions in the armistice talks. It notes Bismarck offering a 25 day or 28 day halt with demarcation lines and revictualling Paris, Thiers demanding Parisian elections and wider revictualling, and the French position seen as unreconciled.
A Pall Mall Gazette summary notes the shift in war tactics as regular French forces fade, replaced by raw levies. Irregulars fight from barricaded towns, aided by government proclamations urging district support, while the invaders exhaust their strength before Metz surrender. Requisition columns require heavy guard amid constant ambush risk on disputed ground.
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