- ing themselves in their positions, and taking a little rest
after the great fatigue of the day."
"Asnieres, 20th, four in the afternoon.
"Colonel Olokowietz has been wounded in the head and arms, and received a contusion in the side. Captain de Gournay was overturned by the colonel when falling, but escaped without hurt. A rumor prevails that three houses have toppled down, and that some men have been taken out dead from under the ruins.
"The store of ammunition placed in one of the cellars is all safe. This morning, in front of the ambulance at Paul Dupont's printing-office, Captain Culot had his head carried away by a shell. The Versailles troops continue their fire on the spot.
"The spirit of the National Guards is excellent. The enemy does not fire much."
"Neuilly, 20th, half-past four.
"Two barricades abandoned last evening at nightfall
were occupied by the enemy, but have been retaken by
the federals. The others are intrenched on the left bank
of the Seine. The cannonade continues."
The Commune this day searched all the convents and
nunneries, and shut up some thirty churches, arresting
the priests. A universal feeling of uneasiness pervaded
all classes of society, arising from the tone of the ultra
journals of the Commune. The following specimen is
from the Montagne, one of the most rabid of the Socialists'
organs:
"In 1848, when Monseigneur Affre was shot, we believed
in a divine mission, and fancied that a bishop's
cope was of greater value than a workman's blouse.
Education has made sceptics of us; the revolution of '71
is atheistic; our Republic wears a bouquet of immortelles
in her bosom. We take our dead to their homes and our
