The New York Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1871, Page 3

| | TH E GERMAN OCCUPATI NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. eo ON OF PARIS. reer Map Showing the Triumphal Entry---Advance of the Two Columns Through Le Point du Jour and the Porte de Neuilly-~4 Zone of the German Occupation---Important Buildings Within the Line. rs KS yy, l » »S ant aye My) aff \ S | Heraid Special Reports from the French Capital. ENTRY OF THE GERMAN ARMY. The March Witnessed by the Emperor William. Splendid Appearance of the Victorious Army. Kime of March and Zone Occupied. PARIS QUIET, TEARFUL AND DESOLATE. Scenes on the Eve and Morn- ing of the Occupation. THE EVE OF OCCUPATION. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO, Improved Feeling—Demonstration by the Zouaves—The Hotel de Ville Threatened— Encendiary Threats—Restive National Gaards= Serious UDisturbunces — Cannons Seized and Placed in Position—Intense Ex- eitement of the People—Fears of Bloodshed. Lowpon, March 1, 1871. Under date of midnight, last night, the correspondent of the New York Henatp sends me the following interesting despatch, He eays:— A BRITER FEELING PREVAILING, At one o'clock this afternoon the situation was much improved. A proclamation which had been issued by the government, declaring that the rioters of Sunday last would be promptly punished, had a good effect. The disturbances subsided greatly, and this favor- able change was greatly due to the press, which is unanimous in supporting the cause of law and order, DEMONSTRATION BY ZOUAVES, a demonstration Woe made Inst night, but Perv a Y fe. MICITARY Em, 8° HOOF. q it was comparatively insignificant. At mid- | night a number of armed Zouaves crowded the boulevard Montmartre and indulged in loud denunciations of the Prussians. They swore to resist the German entry into Paris at all hazards. THE HOTEL DE VILLE THREATENED. An attack upon the Hotel de Ville was threatened this morning, but the morning hours passed without any demonstration being made. Two battalions of the National Guards have refused to surrender their arms, although ordered to do so. General Vinoy intends dis- arming them at all hazards, REPORTS OF INTENDED INCENDIARISM. Today fears were expressed that some rioting may occur, but the general feeling was one of greater security. The police haé intor- mation that an attempt would be likely to be made to fire the city to-night. A trong guard was kept up during the night, and at this hour no incendiary attempts have been made, NATIONAL GUARDS RESTIVE. This afternoon the National Guards, who were concentrated at the Hotel de Ville, the Tuileries and the Ecole Militaire, asked to be marched to some other quarter and allowed to deposit their arms. WHAT THE GERMANS MAY DO. After their entry the Prussian soldiers may visit the Louvre, passing through the Garden of the Tuileries so as not to be seen by the people. | A WSING NOT TO BE SUPPRESSED. Owing to the insufficient number of French regulars in the city no attempt will be made to suppress a rising of the people, should one take place, except on the line of demarcation, DEPRESSION, “ ‘Towards evening the sense of security gave way toa general feeling of depression among the friends of order and of hitter irritation among the lower classes, SERIOUS DIBTURBANOES—CANNON SEIZED. Since writing the first part of this despatch L have learned that at eight o’clock this morn- ing serious demonstrations were made by the National Guards. They crowded the Place de Ia Bagtile until circulation was impossible, A ONTMART R = barricade was thrown up in Rue Flanders, and guns and mitrailleuses placed in position. Yesterday in Rue Chapelle three cannon were dragged into position by a crowd of women, Hundreds of boys on the Boulevard Beau- marchais dragged some howitzers from where The National Guards have taken from various quarters one hundred and eight cannon, twelve mitrailleuse they were to the barricade. and five howitzers, INDIGNATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT, The proclamation issued by the government and placarded on the streets has exctted the utmost indignation among the people, who declare that they will resist the German entry with the cannon and rifles obtained during the night. PRUSSIAN OFFIOKRS MOBBED, Last night some Prussian officers, in plain clothes, were caught promenading the Boule- vard Sebastopol, They were instantly sur- rounded by a crowd ef excited and enraged men and women and barely escaped with their lives. All the papers deprecate these dia- turbances. A OOLLISION EXPECTED. At this hour (midnight) I have just time to add afew words. While I write, fears of a serious disturbance are deepening. In fact, everybody looks for a collision between the Parisians and the Germans, the result of which is fearful to contemplate, Pi GREAT EXCITEMENT. Atthis momeut the Boulevard Italiens is crowded by a mob of National Guards, citi- zens, women and children, all exhibiting the most intense excitement, wildly gesticulating and yelling out imprecations upon the Prus- sians and their own government. It is possible that the mob will exhaust itself and disperse before daylight, but the worst scenes are feared, FEARS OF BLOODSHED, All the shops which had begun to display their valuables have been again cleared since sundown, ll the bright spots on the political horizon have disappeared with the light, Ere these words are in type I fear that I shall have to chronicle the intelligence that death hag gleaned another barvest from o field —— — from which the grim visitant has already reaped and garnered so much, THE OCCUPATION, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YOAX HERALD. Paris Occupied—Futile Hopes to the Last Moment—French Preparations to Prevent a Demonstration—Barricades and Sentries— Exciting Scenes the Night Previous—Entrance of the Germans—Sp!endid Appearance of the Men~The Emperor Witnesses Their Entry— The Line of March—Zone of Occupation— Desolate Aspect of Paris—No Disturbance— Mourning and Teare—The Place de In Con- corde Covered with Crape. Lonpoy, March 1—Evening, I have just received the following despatch from the special correspondent of the New York Heratp in Paris, It is dated this after- noon, and gives an account of the entry of the German army into the French capital. Your correspondent writes :— PARI8 OCOUPIED. The dreaded hour has arrived. The Ger- man troops, with the iron determination which has distinguished them during the war, are at this moment carrying out their resolution to enter the capital of France, conquered by them from their enemy. ‘ A FUTILE HOPE. Up to the latest moment it was hoped that the autocrat at the head of the German empire would yield and not be relentless in his pur- pose, but content himself with the dismember- ment and beggary of France, without adding an apparently unnecessary and unprofitable humiliation to the already overwhelmed French, FALSE RUMOR. Last night at a late hour @ rumor pre- vailed that the Germans had given up the proposed occupation, and the report found credit in many quarters, The completion of preparations and the general activity of the authorities, however, forbade the hope that there was any trath in the rumor, EXCITING SCENES. The scenes which were enacted in some portions of the city beggar description, Ex- cited crowds filled Montmartre and Belleville nearly all night, listening to incendiary speeches delivered by red republican orators, and shouting defiance to the Prussians, FRENOH PREPARATION, Since General Vinoy issued his proclama- tion the best part of the Natiunal Guard of Paris have been actively engaged in perfect- ing the barricades, which are intended to serve as safeguards against the approach of armed crowds to the line marked out for the limit of-the German occupation. OOOUPATION OF THE TRIANGLE, At an early hour this morning all the pre- parations were complete, The streets pre- sented a singular appearance by reason of the absence of the people from them.. There was almost an entire desertion of ‘the thorough- fares along the German line of march, except by strong bodies of French regular troops, who occupied the triangle all night with the intention of falling back on the advance of the Prussians and taking up positions commanding the approaches to the line of demarcation, APPEALS FOR ORDER. The Paris press, which had begun to fear the consequences of its rude utterances and of the incendiary advice of reckless men, this morning made @ last appeal to the people, urging them to a bstain from all acts likely to bring terrible disasters upon France without improving her position or altering the result of the war. ADVANCE OF THE GERMANS. At the appointed hour of ten o'clock this morning the first representatives of the corps of the victorious army entered within the enceinte under the eye of his Imperial Majesty, in accordance with the programme previously arranged. The Germans were favored with splendid weather. THE ENTRANCE, The Eleventh Prussian corps, thirty theu- sand strong, with ninety-six pieces of field artillery and the usual proportion of cavairy, the whole under command of General Von Bose, advanced in two columns, one through the Porte de Neuilly and the other through the Point da Jour. The first column advanced ata pretty rapid rate up the Avenue of the Grand Armée direct for the Arc de Triomphe, the French troops vacating the streets ae the Germans approached. The oiher columa en¢ tering at the Point du Jour, below Auteuil, commenced their march along the quay on the: north side of the Seine direct for the Place dd la Concorde, where they rendezyoused in twq “columns. THE ZONE OF OCCUPATION. The fixed zone when surrendered to tha Germans was almost entirely free from the It commences a the extreme southwest corner of the enceinte, presence of French citizens, which forms a point and runs in the shape of an irregular triangle, which the Seine forms: in the east side of the enceinte, and from Poingi du Jour to the Porte des Ternes on the west: side, and along the Faubourg St. Honorg and the Avenue des Ternes, from Rue Royald! to the enceinte on the north side, (Thesq¢, limits are marked out in the map published’ with this despatch.) The only points withi these limits retained by the French are th baking establishment used for the Army a Paris, the Quai de Billy and the Pont de Jenag A SSRATEGIO TRIANGLE. The triangle is admirably chosen for stra« tegic purposes, With their right protected by the Seine and their left by the enceinte, 30,000 men are able to hold the north sidd against 150,000, GERMAN ARTILLERY IN POSITION. As the German troops proceeded along tha line their artillery took up positions at interq vals from the Porte de Neuilly to the Place da la Concorde, and from the Point du Jour ta the same point, This was done as a precaud tiomary measure against any possible hostile demonstrations on the part of the Parisians. i SPLENDID APPEARANCE OF THE TROOPS. Nothing could exceed the splendid appears ance of the German troops, Despite the hard’ service they had seen during the seven months of war the rest afforded by the armistice appears to have sufficed to obliterate most of} the traces of an active campaign, They turned, out in perfect order, as if on a parade ground, at home. DESOLATE ASPECT OF PARIS, Your correspondents, who were posted af different points in the city, make the following CONTINUED ON SEVENTH PAGR