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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER X
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M.Thiers has either made no report upon their condition, or it has been concealed.

M.Jules Favre, in his despatch to the envoys abroad, enters into no details, and confines himself to the simple announcement, that the armistice was not concluded because Count Bismarck would not allow Paris to be revictualled during the twenty-five days which it was to last.

Our anxiety for news respecting what is passing outside has to be satisfied with the following words, which fell from the lips of M.Thiers: "I have seen the Army of the Loire and the Prussian Guard; man to man I prefer the former." The _Debats_ and some other journals contain extracts from the English newspapers up to the 22nd ult.

I observe that everything which tells against France is suppressed, and what is published is headed with a notice, that as the source is English the truth is questionable.

Thus does the press, while abusing the Government for keeping back intelligence, fulfil its mission.
The plan for the redistribution of the troops, and their change from one corps to another, which was announced on Sunday in a decree signed Trochu, has not yet been carried out.


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