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Paris Besieged as German Forces Tighten Ring Around City
Comprehensive dispatches describe Paris under near total siege with Prussian and Saxon columns surrounding the capital. French sorties from Paris are repelled while German reserves hold, prisoners taken, and fortifications from Sceaux to Mont Valérien fortified. Analysts warn of possible heavy bombardment and renewed attempts to breach the outer works.
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Paris
Prussia
Saxony
Versailles
Grand Tremblay
Ferritres
Lagny
5Th
11Th
Giuthani
Trochu
Chevilly
Ilay
Thiais
Choissy le Roi
Paris Forta
la Ferté Sous Jouarre
Moulin de la Tour
Toul
Francs-tireurs
Russell
Meaux
Strasbourg
Ferridree
la Lande
Boisy St. Leger
Villeneuve le Roi
Longjumeau
Chatenay
Vergailles
Pougisal Epernay
Marsanvillers
Feucherolles
le Menil St. Denis
Sceaux
St. Denis
Fort Romanville
Berlin
Mont Valérien
Sévres
St. Cloud
Garches
Courbevoie
St. Ouen
Seine
Gennevillers
Lille
St. Honoré
L’evéque
Argenteuil
la Garenne
Asniéres
Montmartre
St. Martin
Times
Vosges
Forbach
Burnside
J. Jules Favre
Washburne
Genevilliers
le Point du Jour
Daily News
M. de Villemessant
Orsini
The
Echo
Auteuil
Pall Mall Gazette