PARISIAN AMAZONS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3277, 14 August 1871, Page 3

PARISIAN AMAZONS.

The correspondent of the London " News" says : Among tho prisoners marched into Versailles were a company of the Amazons of the Siene, and a battalion of patriotic children. The ■ former were dressed as vivandiercs. Some, who had shown themselves restive, were handcuffed. One had a child strung on her back ; the arm of another was in a sling; the hubit shirt of another pretty brunette was covered with fresh blood. Another Amazon was wounded. They all showed symptoms of fatigue, but still wore a defiant air and did not seem to belong to the class with which the Magdalen Asylums arc peopled. All were not young ; indeed matrons were more numerous than maidens in this band of female warriors. They were forced to walk at a quick pace, under a broiling sun by a troop of gensdarmes. Their advent in the streets of Versailles was the cause of much mirth among the people. One stout old woman, who responded to the smiles of the bystanders by disrespectful pantomine, was hailed as Merc DucJiesnc. In one detachment of 200 National Guards, ten of them were children net twelve years old. The young patriots seemed to feel that the eyes of Europe were upon them, and posed accordingly. They wore the uniform of the National Guard.