Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy, War

    Believes the war between France and Austria is being fought out with telegrams as well as by other means. Observes that 'the telegraph can boast of a far greater number of killed and wounded' since, 'by its irresistible agency, a whole army has been known to be destroyed in a minute'. Suggests that France and Austria fight their war in the telegraph office.