MORE CRY' THAN WOOL.
The bombardment of a city seems not to be so great a calamity as it looks or sounds. At, the siege of Paris, Victor Hugo tells us, from one Tuesday to Sunday the Prussians hurled 25,000 projectiles at the doomed city. It required two (hundred and twenty railway trucks tp transport them. Each shot cost 60 francs; total, 1,500,----000 francs. The damage to the forts was estimated at 1400 francs. About ten men were killed. Each of the dead thus cost the Pr\issian.s about 150,006 francs. As to the beleaguered, Hugo also tells us that the Parisians out of curiosity visited the bombarded districts, to see the shells fall as they would have gone to a fireworks display. National Guards had to keep the people back. So may it be with our friends in Africa.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 3 February 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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139MORE CRY' THAN WOOL. Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 3 February 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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