The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-08-17
FOREIGN NOTES.
The servlans and Montenegrlns De-
feat the Turks In the Heaviest
Battle OF tho War.
The Turks Leave Eight Thousand Killed
and Wounded on the FIeld-The Gar
Anxious for a Cessation Of Nos.
tlllties-Prlnce MIlan's Views.

LONDON, August ia dispatch
from Belgrade to the Standard says
war manifesto will be issued by
Prince Milan to-day, declaring that
Servia and Montenegro will fight to-
gether to the last man.
A Times correspondent at Rogusa
announces that the report OF the &C.
we're defeat Of the Turks Mt Kuci IL
confirmed, according to Montenegro
accounts. Mahomed Pasha, with 1000
men, advanced into the ravines OF
Kuci on Monday. His army was ut.
tackled on all sides, routed and pur-
sued by Montenegrins from Medan to
Bodgoritza, where the Turks were
protected by their artillery. Monte
negrins estimate the Turkish loss at
5000. There Is no doubt but that this
ID the gravest disaster Of the war.
EDINBURGH, August l6.--The statue
Of DIR. Livingstone, the African ex.
plorer, the site OF which Ia u few yards
east OF Scott's monument, was I'M
yelled here yesterday.
LONDON, August IL. The Pail Mall
Gazette publishes dispatch from
Berlin, which says; mediation by
the powers on the basis OF the re-estab-
lishment Of the statue quo rent bill,
ante-bellum, Is considered imminent.
1t is reported the czar is anxious for
speedy termination Of the war. and
has personally besought the emperors
OF Austria and Germany to offer their
good offices to the belligerents for the
purpose OF securing peace.
LONDON, August l8.-A dispatch
from Belgrade says that while war
preparations continue actively, and
while even the peace party consider
any fate preferable to the deposition
of Prince Milan and the annexation
of any part Of Servia to Turkey, yet at
the same depression Of spirits and
desire for peace among the moderate
party and the Servian people gener-
ally make the intervention of the
powers to be anxiously looked for, In
the hope that it would bring peace
without either Of the above conditions,
which 1t Is feared the Turks desire to
impose. Rather than accept any one
Of these, the Moderate party will sup
port the Government to continue the
struggle until Servia conquers or can
not fight longer. They say the deposit
ton Of Prince Milan would occasion
dynastic civil war, which would retard
the progress Of the country twenty
years. AS for Turkish rule here, the
foremost men Of Servia, and even the
opponents Of the war, say II is better
that all Servans perish in the struggle
than submit to that. 1t is evident IL
intervention of the powers does not
bring peace, no arrangement between
the belligerents themselves is likely to.
The Times Athens dispatch says:
"In consequence of the Portes refusal
grant the demands OF the Cretian
Assembly, great excitement prevails,
and rising has been imminent. The
Cretians sought the advice Of Greece,
and the latter urged them to appeal to
the great powers and await the result,
which they will probably do.
The Standards Belgrade special says
IL is reported that the Turks have occu-
pied Petrowatza ana Metrovitzu in
| Northwestern Servia. These towns
are, respectively, south and north OF
Badovinzee, the headquarters of Gen-
eral oliempize. The Servian COM
inander, thus outflanked, was obliged
to evacuate. It IL reported that he Is
to DO superseded by General Kolaroff,
a Russian.
A telegram from Alexandria, Egypt,
to the Standard says reinforcements
are leaving for Abyssinia, whence
come rumors OF Egyptian reverses.