The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-08-29
The War News.

The Sick Man " of Europe appears to be
decidedly convalesent, for he is displaying,
all of sudden, an amount of energy and
vitality which few months since would have
been believed impossible. When the Russians
declared war it was generally assumed that
they were abundantly competent to administer
the thrashing which the naughty Turk merited
on account of her treatment of Christians, and
EnglaGd-the ancient patron and ally of
TurAey-began to consider the matter OF in
tervension, and an increased activity was seen
in her arsenals and navy-yards, and her peo-
pie instinciively became bellicose and anti
bellicose. But the recent events prove that
England need not have ruffied her feathers,
for the Moslem appears to be fully able
to take care of himself In fact, now that he
has been reused from his lethargy, and has
stretched himself it would not be beyond the
bounds of possibility if he should be trans
formed from an invalid into thorn in Eu-
ropes flesh, which all the armies of Christen-
dom, including England's, may yet be forced
to combine to remove.
Since the disaster at Plevns, reverses have
been the order of the day with the Russians.
General Ghourka, in command of the army
south of the Balkans, has sustained shatter-
ing defeat at Eski-Saghra which will probably
compel an abandonment for the present of the
ground gained in Roumania. In Bulgaria,
the Turkish commanders, 0sman Pasha and
Mehemet Ali. have given the enemy another
heavy whipping at Tinova, inficting, if the
report be correct, loss of fifteen Thousand in
killed and wounded. The indications are
that the Turks are rolling back the Russians
upon Sistova, and that the army south of the
Balkans may be entrspped and utterly ami
Inflated. The town of Rezanlik. at the south
ern entrance TO the Shipka pass, has been
recaptured by the Turks, and they hold Selvi
which lies on the northern slope of the noun
tains
1t is said that the Gar feels keeuly his
failures to carry ont his programme, but it ap-
pears that he is not disposed to abandon the
campaign, but on the contrary, be is redoub-
ling his efforts against the enemy. A call fol
two hundred thousand men has been issued at
! ST. Petersburg, and the Imperial Guard is to
be dispatched to the front. It is probable
that Plevna will be the object of another grand
effort on the part ofRussia to retrieve her wa
ming fortunes, but the time necessary to perfec
! the preparations will of course be utilized BY
/ the Turkish commander. and as his troops
have the advantage of fighting from behind for.
tihcations, it is not unlikely that they may hol(
/ hundred and fifty thousand assailants a
I bay as completely as they have fifty thousand
I But whatever the Russians have 10 do, mus
4 be done quickly, for the inclement season i
fast approaching when military operations
/ must be suspended for the winter The pro
liabilities are that no efforts which the GA
/ can pnt forth during the present season vii
avail TO redeem Russian prestige from tn
/ shocks which it has received, and whether il
/ the embarrassed state of the treasury tht
campaign can be continued into another yea
may be doubted.