Tours has not yet been taken, but it has had
a great fright, and seems likely to be taken. On the 20th (Tuesday), Voigts Rhetz (who, by the way, seems to be here, there, and everywhere in an incrediblyshort time), "drove back in confusion" some Mobiles with artillery, from Monnaie (nine miles north of Tours) to Notre Dame d'Oe, four miles north of Tours; but as we are not told of the " con- fusion " leading to any capture of artillery, we may conclude that the confusion was not very great. On Tuesday also Tours was shelled from the heights commanding the bridge, and the mayor went out to capitulate ; but on Wednesday the Germans had not yet entered the town, and news was telegraphed from Tours that the Germans had retired from Monnaie, and were concentrating in Chateau Renault. Had any battle occurred between either Army of the Loire and the Germans necessitating the retirethent of the Germans ?
