New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-08
TURKEY IN WAR TINE.

COMMANDERS.
[FRoM A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF the ihI''N'I
CoysTA>rfNoPLE. Aug 1.-The story OF the war
rr)ws daily more hideous. There are nearly 4,ooo
Rrlparian women and children at PhlppopolS' ano
as many more at Adranople and there are yet more
10 follow-wretched, homeless creatures, without
money or property OF any kind and there is not
man. OF "A boy over twelve years old among them.
There are some hundreds Of wounded women and
there is more than one baby, wounded with the bay
oret They all believe Their husbands and broth
ers and sons to be dead and unburied among the
foul ash-heaps which polute Tie Saehra plains.
Tie Turkish official class. OF at least the Official
machine itself, has 40 yeslge Of true conscience.
Right is that whcreVith YOU please your neighbor-
when il is your interest TO do so. Wrong IS the in-
jury your neighbor does to You. Civilization Is a
lqcqucr invented in France 10 cover mp mans true
individuality, in order 10 avoid friction with ohcI
men. Conscience Is the faculty which tells you
when your interest requires achangc OF policy Tins
is the basis Of the iuiqmous orders which have bee"
given to the forces Ia the field. Ia tn iusnreeion
Of 1876 women and children were killed. This
caused mach trouble in England, and must not be re
peated Hence, all women aud children must Do re-
spected So far 4s possible. But the killing OF the
Bnlcarian men was not objected 20 last year, hence
men may Dee and must be killed without mercy.
hope that his purpose OF general massacre has
failed of thoroIQh execution the mountains afford
refuge TO all who flee TO them, and the men in this
country have fashion of deserving their women and
looking ont for themselves il time Of danger The
walings Of these refugee women, therefore, may
perhaps prove needless, since many Of those now
mourned as dead may doubtless return, smiling,
when the warts over. BIT, at the best, the situation
is horrible. There is instant slaughter of men who
do fall into the hands of the Turks.
FullerdetaIls have come in from Eskl Saghra. This
city was mo-. entirely burned, athough,dit the Bal
rarian quarter WAS destroyed, much Of the Turkish
quarter was burned while the Russians were threat
eniug an attempt at Tccapture. Persons who came
ont of the city the dag after thc Russians were
driven cut say that every house lad teen broken
into The streets were strcwn with all manner Of
debris The shops IN the bazars were empty, then
shutter, split and broken, blocking the street ia
front q. .hrm while every where were dead bodies.
The warou-wheels pressed over them as the caravan
OF horro-stricken people fed ihcy hung CHASTITY
and bloody. from windows; they blocked access TO
cour-yards Women were spared IN IN" Esid
Saghr1 slaughter but not al women. Ioibcks and
Cleass.ans are not controlled. il an officer gives
au order 10 these fellows, thce is often reply fro.n
th IuAau's revolver and the officer must tain coa-
t..r himself with "a mutJered curse. There ere dead
women and children, 100, among tine runs OF Eoki
Saalra. who died deaths compared with winch 10 be
shot 10 death were pleasure and fourteen Turkish
soidrrs shot. and forty bastinaioad by court-mar-
tial. is the evidence of horrors which even Turk
could not permit.
The msurectiOn which accompanied The Russian
invasion. and on which the Russian General relied,
was so general 10 De surprise even to jhc Turks.
Some 300 yiilagesiie within the zone occupied OF
threatened by the Russians. Under one pretence or
another sometimes by BHgarians in revenge for
1876. sometimes 10y Turks IN retaliation for This re-
veuge. probably one-half Of THESE villages have
been blottcd ont of existence. and a war of cEter
Ininatiou independent of the great military opera
TONS Is being prosecuted on this side of the Bal
kans.
The sudden outburst of ferocity is partly eX-
planned by some things which have learned from
persons who were ia Eski lghIa during the Russian
occupation. With the first Russian dash the Turkish
population fed, and the Bugarians piaged ana
burnt the empty houses. the same thing took place
in Esk Saghra itself only that the Turks were pres
emit to see the pilagng of their shops and the desc
Grafton Of their finest mosques, and to watch, with
vain wrath the defement of their magnificent
manuscript Korans of boary age. The Provisional
Government had much ado TO restrain the mob.
The Turks say that Turkish women were among
the victims but the Bulgmians deny this, although
they acknowledge that the rOwdics entered The
barcms OF some Turkish houses A Bulgarian
man, who had identified herself with the Turks
was particularly sought for BY the mob but she
scaled q earien-wa and He'd into the cellar Of an
American missionary, who puckily refused to give
her up. except 10 the regular police And he held
his ground too although the Bulgarians threatened
10 burn his house, and saved the woman from
death. Then the treatment received by the Turks
who were sentenced to death was brutal III the cx-
IRENE.
The Turkish Army is entirely in new hands. The
poor, old Serdar- Ekren, Abdul KERN Pasha. too
feeble for military duty, yet they talk Of shooting
him. The court-martial in his case viii surely
show more pity than the people. MeheDet Ali
Pasha, who supersedcs him. Is a German saiioT-hoy
educated In Turkish school. lie is strong in having
Gen. Valentine Baker eX-tOlOucl OF the EagllSn
ARMY for his Chief If staff. He will not Doc accused
OF Abdul hcrii's crime. which was, the people
put IL, standing around with his mouth open like
boy in orchard, hoping that pear viii drop into
it"
The popular pet is Suleman Pasha, the only Turk
who ever succeeded in going where Monte
negrin forces determined Turk should 20.
Ii is his staff officers complaint that >uiei-
man Pasha never sleeps. and, what is
worse, does not let us sleep, either" Turk sh
PaShas are the most excellent OF new brOOms when
new III Office. Hence we may expect vigorous effort
fOi a time.
Meanwhile, the troops come pouring in. Every
day some new column arrives. in ragged cotton
clothes is uniformed and taught the difference be-
tween nint-lOck musdet and a Martin-lienu
rife, and is hurried on TO the front. The new call
is for 100000 men, and the villages sending up
their last contribution towards it, The stress is
such that multtudes Of the villages would be de-
lighted 10 submit TO Russia rather than TO night
This feeling is so general that cannot help beiey
ing much Of the Turkish talk about Russian atrOc
ties To be designed TO meet u. The provincial au
thOr1tics have orders To tell the MOslems that !
although certain causes prevent the unfurng of the
Holy lag the state Of Holy War exists and service