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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 4, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 16.

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News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
LONDON, March 30.—Paris grows sadder in appearance daily, and 160,000 people have left the city within the past 10 days.
LONDON, March 31.—The Independence Belge states that Ulric Fouvienille is organizing a force of 300,000 National Guards at St. Germaines, for the support of law and order.
A special dispatch to the London Times anticipates an approaching struggle which must be of a desperate character.
The evening edition of the Times contains a letter describing the situation of Paris as critical. The gravest apprehension is felt in all quarters, measures for proscription are secretly enforced everywhere, and the significant word “guillotine,” although spoken only in whispers, is in everybody’s mouth.
PARIS, March 31.—All is consternation. The watchword of the Commune is, “Death to the rich; death to the land owners; death to the priests.”
Decrees confiscating church property have been prepared.
Denunciations of suspected persons are made hourly, and many have been arrested. The guillotine will soon be erected, and many houses have been marked as good for the guillotine.
Drafts on the treasury are not paid either in Paris or Versailles.
The government has completed arrangements for moving against Paris. Troops will move simultaneously with the Germans along the line by Montmartre and Berry. Learning this, the Commune has resolved to march upon Versailles to-night with 30,000 National Guards.
In spite of M. Thiers’ sanguine expectations, the Reds have obtained possession of Paris. They have also secured the National Guards by promising to pay them two and a half francs a day. The Republicans of Marseilles have come out in favor of the Paris government, and that city has been declared to be in a state of siege by the regular Minister of War. The regular army is still organizing at Versailles, and will not be ready to march on Paris for eight days at least.