No. 116.
[By cable.]
March 20, 1871.
Fish, Secretary of State, Washington:
The following just received by messenger from Washburne for you:
“Paris, March nineteenth.
“National guard committee master of Paris; departments of interior and justice, prefecture of police, Hotel de Ville occupied by insurgents; Generals Venoy, Thomas, and Lecompt murdered by troops; election for commune to-morrow. All members Thiers’s government gone to Versailles; I follow with whole diplomatic corps.
“WASHBURNE.”
MORAN, London.
Received at 2.20 p. m., March 21, 1871.