Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

No. 72.

Mr. E. B. Washburne to Mr. Fish.

[By cable telegram.]

September 3, 1870.

Fish, Washington:

McMahon totally defeated. Capture of Sedan. Defeat of Bazaine before Metz. In Chamber Favre considered present government extinct; proposed military dictator. Unofficial dispatch to foreign minister that Emperor prisoner, another reports him escaped to Belgium.

WASHBURNE.