WAR ITEMS.
A correspondent writing from "Wilhelmshohe, about the middle of September, speaking of an interview with the captive Emperor says: —
The Emperor praised in high terras the bravery, endurance, and pluck of the German armies, which we had not been able to subdue, in spite of the excellency and heroic devotion of his own troops. In conversing upon the qualities of the . Chassepot, his Majesty observed that there could be no doubt of the indisputable excellence of the weapon, but that the French soldiers required at least ten more years to master its practice The Emperor complains bitterly of hia Generals, blaming their recklessness, incapacity, and contemptuous disregard of himself, repeatedly dwelling on his own reluctance to enter on the war, and his deep regret that he should have acceded to the voice of the people—especially the Parisians—which in a great measure urged him to the fatal step. " I render," he says, "all homage to the bravery and discipline of the Prussian troops. ! Their discipline ia unawerviag, and ia only surpa3Bed by their courage. Mothing can resist them, They will enter Paris, which . will tunable to defend iteelf again** them."
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Colonist, Volume XIV, Issue 1383, 27 December 1870, Page 3
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191WAR ITEMS. Colonist, Volume XIV, Issue 1383, 27 December 1870, Page 3
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