Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
The War News.

vater, 1T would appear that the tide of fortune
las changed and that success after success is
lttending the arms Of the Allies. By late mails
We had accounts of the capture of Kertch and Il
Yenikale, of the entrance into the Sea of Azoff,
and as matter of course of the capture or de-
struction of every floating thing thereon; the
ST. Louis brought advlces of the capture of
Genitchi, the northernmost point of the road
across the Sirwash shadows and the mouth by |
which the Putrd Sea and the Sea of Azoff
communicate place, as can be seen by
glance at the map, Of great military Importance
both as granary for the produce of the banks
of the Don, and as the key in some sort to
Perekop; and as the key in some sort to Pere-
kop; and the Asia announces that the Mamelon
and White Tower at Sebastopol have been
taken by the Allied forces after heavy slaugh-
tur. Blow after blow seems to fall with power
and rapidity. Pelissier is showing his metal'
and is an obvious improvement on Canrobert.-
Lord Raglan, TO whom the Kertch expedition
is attributed, is gaining vigor, and the armies
and nations generally are in better temper
Even in England the cry for reform has grown
dull
1t remains to be seen whether this is one of
the usual fluctuations of war, natural after so
| long period of dscouragemeDt on the part of
the Allies, or the beginning of a series of solid
and enduring triumphs. The object of the Al
lies being, as they say, not to rob Russia Of ter
ritory, 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, Notwithstanding all the bril-.
liant accounts given in the British papers, tina
either Kertch or Yenikale were storehouse
used to any great extent by the army of Sebas
topnl. The state of the roads between Arabat
KafFa and Sebastopol-as described by Demi
doff who rode over them a few years ago-for
bids the belief that any considerable quantit
8 of provisions could have come by that route
But it is quite possible, as the English say, tha
the resources of the valley of the Don hav
been laid under contribution as well as those
the valley of the Dnieper, and that large SUI
plies have sailed through the Sea of Azoff
6 Genitch, or even found their way to pereko
This would account for the seizure of tn
100000 rations, obviously at the former plac
The object of the Allies is to lock the Ru
slams in the Crimea. The only door now lie
open is Perekop. Perekop was to have bee
attacked and seized in few days. Wheth
it can be held or not in the months of June al
July appears doubtful. The Russians used
shrink, in their old wars, from leaving soldie
> in the " vale Of DEATH" where a single night
g. who thought nothing of roasting Arabs, mi
: rot be so squeamish On the whole, there
&C. decided and solid progress on the part OF I
Allies.
1t is not probable that any General ever u
= dertook so magnificent a military task as /
one which Pelissier and Raglan are now
= tempting to perform. Their aim is to cut
from Russia, like wart, the Crimean PENN,
Ia, with all its forts and its granaries and
: capitals Only about thousand years ago ii
peninsula nourished a people who could C
100000 fighting men into battle--who set
an Emperor in Byzantium in play, and kept I
Gar of Russia in a sort of semi-servitude,
paying a tribute to the Khan of the Crlmea.
> Now a couple of hundred thousand, or perh;
- quarter Of a million English, French a
Italians seek to overrun it, and wrest it out
the hands of the Gar, who has a million
men TO defend it. And we are bound to adj
IT. that they are prosecuting their task and
-, vancing step by step, with regularity,
n! ny energy and perseverance which we recogn
at once as Anglo-Saxon. For their sakes
were a pity if at the most critical momen
his treacherous move of Austria, set free the co
ere d'armte on the Gallician frontier to move do
,lv like cloud of locusts on the ill-defended tr
n tier posts on the Crimea.-N. Y. Herald.
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