River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-10-04
THE CONFLICT INTHE OLD WORLD

An Orchanie special says preparations
are making for an advance of all the troops
now here towards Plevna. They include large
numbers of Circass:ans belonging TO the sui
tan's guard, some regular Ibanian battalions
and members of undisciplined irregulars.
Another immense convoy of provisions and
munitions of war is on the point of starting
for Plevna, escorted by division.
Correspondents confirm the report that
Plevna was revictualed and re.GfOrced on the
Esd inst, by twenty battalons of infantry, two
batteries of artillery and 10000 cavalry, md
an immense quantity offood and ammunition.
1t is stated that rainy weather is impeding
operations. Osman Pasha reports three con-
siderable engagements since the 18th inst, in
all of which the Turks were victorious. Os.
man Pasha's position is now believed to be Sc
cure, and the impression at ConstantinOple
and Sophia is that the Russians and Rouma-
mans are Withdrawing gradually from the at
tempt against Plevna
A Russian official disprtch, issued al
Gorny Sudden, says: On the 22d inst, about
10000 Turkish infantry from Sofia, supported
by artillery, forced their way through our cav.
airy posted to intercept them, and entered
Plevna. Further details are wanting. All
quiet around Rustchuk and the Balkans.
correspondent at Zgelence telegraphs that dis
content and encouragement are great in the
Russian army. The officers regard success as
hopeless. While the headquarters staff re-
mains unchanged no improvement seems
likely. Half the army will be invalided soon
after the bad weather sets in.
Snow has been falling in Schipka Pass
since the 23rd, and is now ten centimenters
deep at the foot of the Balkans. The Austrian
and German ambassadors, in the name Of the
Russian government, applied TO the port in
virtue of the Geneva convention for a PERM
o transport timber across the Danube foi
huts for the Russian wounded. The port has
| deferred a reply until it is made certain ths
the huts are only to be used for the wounded
The London Times pro-Russian, prints
prominently: at is said the Turkish soldier:
have received strict orders not to fire at a Rus
sian general lest he should be killed oil
/ disabled and replaced. The wounded from
/ Pleyna overcrowded the Russian hospitals
and the wounded suffer much in the transit tC
Russia" The Times says the end of the cam
paign must be near, and itpromises to present
| something like drawn battle The powers
will attempt to avert another campaign by
diplomacy.
Acorrespondent with Gen. Krillof,
who commands the force which is trying &c
prevent the reyictualling of Plevna, says the
first Turkish convoy which entered Plevna
consisted OF two thousand wagons. Gen
Krilloff attempted to hold the road at point
so near Plevna that Osman Pasha was able 10
send a force which attacked him in the rear
and obliged him to withdraw and leave the
road open. Upon retiring Gen. Krillof left
two regiments of Cossacks at Etropol to
watch the Sofia road. Another convoy com.
ing from road Unknown TO the Russians
running along side the Sofia road, slipped
through the fingers of the detachment on
Monday and was under the gus of PlCvna
before the Russians could attack it.