The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-23
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

A RUSSIAN accommodating party has been
repulsed near the River LON.
THE Ottoman Bank has succeeded in plac-
| ing loan which will net the Porte $12 000,-
| 600.
| THE Turkish massacres awaken a horror
and indignation at Athens, difficult to de-
scribe.
| THE Russians have evacuated Elena and
| BebGova and nearly all the country up to
| Tirnova.
| THE Russians officially acknowledge the
loss of IA, ,459 men killed and wounded to
August 9th.
| PRINCE TCHERKAssKI has removed the
seat of government of Bulgaria from Tirnova
to Sistova.
THERE was slight fight on the 10th, on
the right bank of the river near Rustchuk,
in which the Russians were successful.
| EIGHT vessels landed Turks in the Dob
rudscha on Friday, the 18th of August.
| The Russians are marching to oppose them.
| THE Russian Government has issued a
| general call to arms. The fact is significant
commentary upon the news from the front.
| RUSSIAN official dispatches state that the
Russian batteries at Giurgevo silenced the
| Turkish batteries at Rustchuk on the 10Th
| inst.
GEN. GoURKO is said to have declared
| that the Russian positions from the Danube
| to Shipka Pass were SO strong that the
! Turks would not venture an attack.
| THE Chinese ambassador to Berlin has
| daI 70 of shurO 10 he
Russian Cabinet respecting the incorpora-
tion of the frontier districts of Kashgar, in
which the Chinese are continually victorious.
| He returns at the end of August.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch, dated Aug.
| IA, says: By the last military operation
south of the Balkans, a loss of twelve thou
| sand killed and wounded was inflicted on
| the Russians. The enemy has teen driven
| from all the localities south of the noun
tains, and law and order has been restored.
IT was reported, on August 1s, that Prince
Hassan, in the Dobrudscha, was marching
rapidly with his Egyptian troops, with the
object of cutting off the communications of
the Russians with Bessarabia. Simultane-
| eously, eight Turkish steamers have received
| orders to disembark force north of the
| Danube mouths, with the same object.
AN engagement occurred Monday, August
| 13, at Topkeny. The Russians defeated the
Turks, and captured five cannon. Osman
Pasha had arrived within four hours march
of Tirnova. The Russians were retreating
| from Topkeny. They have been REINFORCED.
Another field battery left Athens for the
| frontier on the 14th.
IT is rumored that General Ignatieff has
| fallen into disgrace. The passage of the
| Balkans was mainly resolved on in cOnse-
| quence of his assurance that with the Turks
anything might be ventured on. The Rus
sian Government says, moreover, that it has
been misled on certain other points concern
ing the state of things in Turkey.
SULEIMAN PAsHA announces that Rassam
Pasha has taken Karatova, disarmed the
| Bulgarians, and re-established order. He
then captured Kalofer, defended by Bull
garians in intrenched positions, and occu.
pied Kalofer Pass. The rebels fled into the
Balkans, after losing five hundred killed
Eleven Turkish soldiers were killed and
thirty three wounded.
A CORRESPONDENT telegraphs: 81 have
written the following as l received it, and
from the terrible accounts which the fugi
tives continually bring over the Balkans,
fear it must be only too true: July 81
On the day of the Russian evacuation Of
| Eski Saghra the Turks ordered that all
Christians, men, women and children
should be shot as they left their houses
Those who remained within were burned
alive. The order was given to burn down
and destroy every particle of Christian
property. Many leading Turkish merchants
took part in the affair.""
A CORRESPONDENT at Rraabunar writes
that appalling accounts continue to come
in of the misery of fugitives from the dis
tricts devastated by the Bashi Bazouks and
the Bulgarians. Thousands of women anc
children are homeless and perishing fol
want of shelter, medical attendance, anc
food. Immediate help, on the largest posi-
BILE scale, is most sorely needed. The Pashs
proposes to distribute the fugitives abou
Constantinople, Adrianople, and Philip
popolis. A correspondent suggests the for
nation of city of refuge on an island neal
Constantinople, under the protection of
neutral flag, and a neutral quarantine from
the belligerents. The crops are rotting il
the ground, and no provision is made fo
the winter. The correspondent speaks ia
vorably of the conduct of the Turkish reg
ulars, but severely blames the governmen
for employing or not controlling the irreg
, ulars, who commit the worst excesses. Evel
, fugitive women and children, who come fo
protection to the Turks, have to be guarde
by the regular troops, lest they should b
further injured by these savages.