The approaches are now within 150 metres of the enceinte, and a breaching battery is being constructed. The Montretout batteries have already made a considerable breach in the enceinte by the side of the Auteuil Gate, which has been demolished.
There was a very lively fusillade this afternoon between troops in the Bois de Boulogne and the Insurgents, who fired from houses and other shelter behind the enceinte between Passy and Auteuil. Mortars were also used by the military.
The Insurgents have shot a captain of Engineers who imprudently advanced beyond the Versailles lines.
In the Fort of Vanves a soldier of the Line has been found; his feet were tied together, and there are numbers of bayonet wounds in different parts of his body. The Insurgents had made him prisoner.
Of the 60 pieces of cannon left in the Fort, the greater number had been rendered useless by the fire of the troops.
It is believed that the garrison escaped by a subterranean passage communicating between Forts Vanves and Montrouge.
Every commander of an Army Corps will henceforward have the command of an Arrondissement, and will be answerable for the defensive measures undertaken in his zone.
All persons in the possession of sulphur and phosphorus must declare to the Commune the amount of each within three days.
La Cecilia has again undertaken the command at Petit Vanves.
Torpedoes are to be laid down at exposed parts.