, 1876-11-05
THE HORRORS OF WAR,
Scenes on the Field OF Batt1e-The Brutal
Bashi-Bazoul1S-H4w MosIems Raro

The correspondent Of the London Telegraph
writes from the Turkish army headquarters as
follows: II suppose that, on the previous day,
the most Of the killed and wounded Of Sunday
night bad been removed. Yet tho traces of tht,
hattie which we had Witnessed were very an
parent; for in the long maize-stalks it is
next to impossible to find al tue dead they lie
hidden away from the ken Of the ambulance
bearers aud burying parties, and it is only when
you essay to take short cut across the fields
that you find your horse start and shy at some
horrible thing which its keen sense has detected
You need not ask why the animal is restiye.-
your sense Of smell is all too strong: yet il you
would know whether Turk or Serb lies there you
must approach, however unpleasant the task.
We were unfortunate enough to stumble across
several who wore the fez,-all dead and all
rapidly decomposing in the hot sunshine.
There they lay, each one, strangely enough, still
grasping or having fallen upon his weapon each
one it was satisfactory to record struck III front
courage and painless death Horses, too, we're
there, one Of which appeared to have actually
broken one OF its own legs In its dire agony;
while another had been clearly killed by its rider
was cut with sabre. 4 little further On, un-
der hedge, were two more corpscs, one that
OF a mere boy, who had crawled-so the traces
OF blood showed-to the side vi his dying COIN
rade, and, resting his head On q turf Of grass,
had quietly expired His face, not yet d.
be- %as thinking Of i friends s,peinaps aid homs
when he died. There were no more
dead in our path SO long as we continu-
cd on theleft bank Of the Morura. Our plan was
face Aexinatz, which when first we
saw yonder pretty little town were as
smiling and beautiful as any English
hamlet: Now all was desolation; What
houses had not been destroyed were sinmcring
and cracking in the blaze. Where crewililc
oI,f1fran r3fnyad and h11Ga hn,ren{yiror
Bashi-Bazouks were squatting,-some sorting
the articles they had plundercd from the ruined
houses, some cha1fcring over the articles Of
clothing they had found in the dwellings or had
a oathsome sight to see these w'retchcs thus
happy in the scene Of their villainy. They had
wrecked these pleasant places utterly and conf
pletely: left not q wall standing, destroyed all
but the wells and fountains, and here they were
happy and comfortable, Us though they had
done u highly meritorious work, upon which
they might think with satisfaction during the
coming fast Of Ramazan.
Gypsics, too, were here-where are there
not!-perched high upon piles OF stoves, stove
snch-like unconsidered triilcs, munchng
their hard biscuits, and eating grapes gathered
from SerVian villages, anxious to sell to any
passer-by any Of the plumber they had collected.
Compared with the Bash-Bazouks they were
angles, for have never known Of an Instance
in which the Zingari have malciously destroyed
property OF any sort. They would pull a stove
out OF wall, or the iron bars from q window,
but they would never think Of setting fire to
the house itself. Rather would they live in it
as long as possible, aud wait till good oppor-
tunity occurred Of removing their neWly-acqulred
property. Not SO the BashiBazouks; these
rtlnians simply destroyed for the sheer pleasure
of viewing wreck and ruin. Well Was Abdul
kerim advised when he ordered Il, 900 Of them
to leave Nissa and 60 to their own homes with
mt 5aIav Thar 0ra Ticurann tn h11trn
and will be endless trouble to Turkey. We
could not staylong in the villages, for the stencil
arising from the bodies Of pigs, which the Mos
lens everywhere shoot directly they see them;
various directions, very considerably hastened
our departure, and We now went down to the
banks of the Aforava. Strangely
enough, they permitted US to ford the swift
running river without firing shot, although
Of the party Of Circessians who were so vigor-
ougly pelted on Sunday afternoon; and
In this way We PASSED into the fields
close by, and SO approached the wood.
Not a. seryian was m 10 sight, not q SOL
ever, here; and graves, which showed that
others had just been buried, were frequently
passed. By the side Of one dead 1ad-he could
not have been more than IS, and seemed very
thin and il1-n9uIishedLlay Pocketrknife
OF his comrades, who was not far of, had been
struck by shell in the leg, and had bled to
dcath-slowly, I should imagine, for be had
moved about great deal before he died: and
had at last propped himself against tree.
his face, or, perhaps, it had fallen there. Hehad
been stout, strong man Of quite 10 years,
tall and athletic. 1wondered if his family or
friends still pictured him as sound and well in
the ,servian ranks, where he had 90 %, lately
and his hoiv Was already almost 1ccnmDOsed.n ~