The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-21
The War Ne ws.


According to the newspapers and telegraphic
accounts we receive from the other side of the
water, it would appear that the tide of fortune
has changed and that success after success is
attending the arms of the Allies. By late mails
we had accounts of the capture of Kertch and
Yenikale, Of the entrance into - Sea of Azoff,
and as q matter of course of the capture or des-
truction of every floating thing thereon; the
st. Louis brought advices Of the capture of
Genitchi. the northernmost point of the road
across the Sirwash shadows and the mouth by
which the Putrid Sea and the Sea of Azoff
communicates place, as can be seen by
glance at the map, Of great military impor.
lance both as granary for the produce Of the
banks of the Don, and as the key in some sort
to Perekop; and the Asia announces that the
Mamelon and White Tower at Sebastopol have
been taken by the Allied forces after heavy
slaughter. Blow after blow seems to fall with
power and rapidly. Pelissier is showing his
mettle, and is an obvious improvement on Can
robert. Lord Raglan, to whom the Kertch
expedition is attributed, = gaining vigor, aud
the armies and nations generally are in better
temper. Even in England the cry for reform
has grown dull.
It remains to be seen whether this is one Of
the usual fluctuations Of war, natural after
SO long period of encouragement on the
part of the Allies, or the beginning of q
series Of solid and enduring triuuphs. The
object Of the Allies being, as they say, not to
rob Russia of territory, but to weaken her
naval power in the Black Sea, that object is of
course neared by the occupation of the Sea of
Azoff. 1t does not seem likely, notwithstand-
ing all the brilliant accounts given in the Brit
ish papers, that either Kerteh or Yenikale were
storehouses used to any great extent by the
army of Sebastopol. The state of the roads be-
tween Arabat, Kaffa and Sebastopol-as de-
scribed by Demidoff who rode over them q few
years ago--forbids the belief that any conside-
rable quantity of provisions could have come
by that route. But it is quite possible, as the
pglish say, that the resources Of the valley Of
the Den have been laid under contribution as
well as those of the valley Of the Dnieper, and
that large supplies have sailed through the Sea
of Azoff to Genitchi, or even found their way
to Perekop. This would account for the seizure
of the 100000 rations, obviously at the for
mer place. Tie object OF the Allies is to lock
tie Russians in the Crimea. The only door
now left open is Perekop. Perekop was to
have be en- attacked and seized in a few days.
Whether it can be held or not in the months of
June and July appears doubtful. The Rus
slams used to shrink, in their old wars from
leaving soldiers in the vale of DEATH" where
a single nights dew often swept off whole regi-
ments Pelissier, who thought nothing of roast
ing Arabs, moy not be SO squesmish. On the
whole, there is decided and solid progress on
the part of the Allies ..-.
1t is not probable that any General ever
undertook so magnificent military task as
the one which Pelissier and Raglan are now
attempting to perform. Their aim is to cut off
from Russia, like wart, the Crimea1 PENN
sula, with all its forts and its granaries and its
capitals. Only about thousand years ago
that peninsula nourisbed people who could
call 1900 fighting men into battle-who set
up an Emperor in By zantium in play, and kept
the Gar of Russia in sort Of semi-servitude,
he paying tribute to the Khan of the Crimea.
Now couple Of hundred thousand, or perhaps
quarter of million English, French aud
Italians seek to oyerrun IL, and wrest il out Of
the hands of the Gar, who has million Of
men to defend it. And we are bound to admit
that they are prosecuting their task and ad-
vanciDg step by step, with regularity, an
energy and perseverance which we recognise
at once as Anglo Saxon. For their sakes 1t
were pity if at the most critical moment
treacherous move Of Austria, set free the
corps d'arm<e on the Gallician frontier to
move down like cloud of locusts on the i'll
defended frontier posts on the Crimea.
Know NorHING OPEN Couycms.-The decree