The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE WAR IN THE EAST.


Quarters at Poredin dated the 18th inst, says
.Our siege batteries cannonaded Plevna all
Monday and until late in the night. The left
wing. under Gen. Skobeloff, captured another
one of the neighboring heights, which will en-
able us to lombard the enemy's position and
the town of Plevna itself. Gen. Skobeloff was
very feebly opposed. Our cavalry on the
Sofia road has defeated detachment of Cir
cassians from Plevna. Our losses to the pres
emit time are insignificant"
The Montenegrins have defeated Hafiz Pasha,
who was marching to the relief of Nicsics. The
Turks lost 600 killed and 100 captured.
A new bridge over the Danube at Nikopohs
has been completed.
Dispatches of the 14th give meager particu-
lars of the assault made by the Russians on
Plevna and the capture of the Grivica
redoubt. Osman Pasha's strongest posi-
ton. The storming parties captured five
guns and two standards, but with terrible
loss on the part of the assailants, as the COM
mander of the regiment was killed. and Gene
raj and 5000 men were wounded. The number
of dead had not yet been reckoned at the
time of the dispatch Of the telegram. The
London Times correspondent telegraphs: 81
estimate the forces engaged at about 81, 900 on
the Russo-Roumanian side, against from so, 600
to 10000 Turks. The valor of the Russian
troops is the only thing to be praised, as the
attack was unskilfully directed, and the waste
of life unnecessary. The Turks were very
skillfully handled.
The Khedive of Egypt will send further
contingent Of troops to Turkey.
A Russian official bulletin, dated Porsdin,
the 18th, says: son yesterday "wednesday
we made no further attacks but bombarded
the Turkish Notifications and the town of
Plevna at short range. Toward p. m. the
town began to burn, and two explosions were
observed within the Notifications The Turks
made little reply to our fire and directed all
their efforts against our left wing which threat
ened their rear. At this point Gen. Skobeleff
repulsed five furious attacks, but was COM
PEELED in the evening, after the sixth attack, to
evacuate the Notifications which he captured
on Tuesday. During Wednesday night our
troops intrenched themselves in their positions.
From the beginning of the battle up to /
o'clock on Wednesday afternoon 5000 wounded
had been brought to the field hospital"
Mukhtar Pasha telegraphs that the Russians
have evacuated Ardahan and retired to Fort
Emiroglou.
The mobilization of all the Roumanian re-
serves has been ordered.
The Grand Duke Nicholas telegraphs to st.
Petersburg, under date of Poredin, Saturday,
Sept. IS: son Friday evening the Turks as
saulted Grivtza but, with the assistance OF
the Russian and Roumanian reserves, were re-
pulsed. To-day we continue Smelling the EN-
emy's fortifcations, and the town is burning.
According to reports received up to Friday, 239
wounded officers and {, 482 men passed through
the hospitals since Sept. 7. The number of
killed is about 5000. The total loss is about
800 officers and II, 500 men. Up to the morn
ing of Sept. IA the Roumanians had lost about
sixty officers and 5000 men killed and wound
ed Bucharest correspondent telegraphs
as follows, under date Of Sunday the 18th :
"a dispatch has reached here this morning
from imperial headquarters, stating that the
Turks had made desperate efforts to recapture
the Gravitza redoubt, making seven ineffect-
ual assaults and losing 10000 men,"
A correspondent with the Turkish army in
Roumelia sends the following "Fever has
broken out in Suleiman Pasha's camp. Every
house in Kaznlik is hospital. The place
reeks with the fever stencil. All the country
from Schipka to Yeni-Saghra can only be rid
den over with camphor in ones mouth. Dead
bodies are lying OH the roadsides and in fields
and gardens. From 400 to 600 bodies are in
Yeni-Saghra, and have been there ever since
terror from Adrianople to the Balkans All re-
spectacle male Bulgarians are hunted down
by the order or connivance of the authorities"
Advices from the seat of war to the 18th an
nounce that Suleiman Pasha had captured
Fort st. Nicholas, in Schipka pass, and formed
q junction with Mehemet Ali. at seems
probable" telegraphs correspondent, "that
their combined forces may attempt something
against the Czarowitz, who, already obliged
to retire before the junction was effected, may
now be forced to retreat still further,
although the Imperial Guard, now ar
irving rapidly, may put another face on
affairs. 1t is reported that Gen. Todleben, the
defender of Sebastopol, has received orders to
prepare plans for fortifying the winter camps
at Matchin, Hirzova, Sistova, and Nikopolis.
II it comes to the worst, Nikopolis, where the
strong tete du pont is to be established, will be
held at all hazards. ALI fresh troops mean
while are directed to the Jantra line"
Like nearly every story that is telegraphed
from Constantinople, the reported capture of
Fort st. Nicholas by the Turks turns out to
have no basis of truth. 1t appears that the
Turks after five days bombardment, made a
furious assault on the position. There was
desperate fighting for nine hours, resulting in
the utter discontinue Of the Turks, with enCr-
nous losses
A desperate battle was fought in the valley
of the LON on Monday, Sept. II. A corre-
spondent at the Russian headquarters at Biela
telegraphs that "Thirty-two battalions and
eight batteries, comprising the whole Of the
troops under the command Of the Czarowitz,
attacked Assaf Pasha's division at Sirakeny.
The Turks were strongly reinforced at once
and Ressians were driven back with great
slaughter. The battle was in every respect a
decisive one"