Engineers are engaged in sapping from Issy in the direction of Vaugirard. They are much exposed to the batteries of the Insurgents, but neither yesterday nor to-day did I see a single shell fall into the French lines where they are at work.
The Committee of Public Safety has issued an appeal to the National Guards calling upon them to secure the triumph of Paris, and describing the fearful results which would ensue from the victory of the Versailles troops.
A later attack which was made on Neuilly yesterday was repulsed.
This morning the Federal batteries at Montmartre are bombarding the Château Bécon.
The Journal Officiel of the Commune of to-day accuses the agents of Versailles of having caused the explosion of the cartridge manufactory, and says that a hundred persons have fallen victims to it. Four arrests have been made in connexion with this affair. The Vérité demonstrates that the explosion could not have been the result of intention, but was solely attributable to accident. The same paper states that no shell fell in the Champ de Mars at the time of the explosion.
The Versailles troops are constructing trenches within 200 yards of the Auteuil Gate, but the breach is not yet assailable.
Fort Montrouge still holds out, but offers only a feeble resistance.
The Communists claim to-day to have repulsed all attacks.
The bombardment is incessant.
The German troops are taking up imposing positions.