River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-09-20
THE CONFLICT IN THE OLD WORLD

There is no news from Plevna, although
at Vienna the widest reports are current of
its capture and of prodigious slaughter Of
the Turks. One of these reports even says
0sman Pasha is prisoner. A Vienna CORE
spondent says the reports about the fall Of
Plevna, which was traced to Roumanian
sources, have not been confirmed from any
side. IL Is vadously surmised that the Rus
Stars, having approached within striking dis
lance, are awaiting the movements Of their
turning columns, which are supposed TO have
been sent to the flank and rear of Pleyna, or
that the Turks may have fortified Pleyna so
strongly that il is only TO be taken by gradual
approaches. The whole plan of attack may
thus nave To be changed. II is stated from
Bucharest that the Russians have removed
the bridge at Prygos and taken it to Petros-
com, higher up the river. A Vienna special
says the departure OF Mehemct Ali from the
centre of his army for the left wing looks as
though an advance from the Iom is again TO
be made from that side.
Russian siege batteries cannonaded
Pievna all day, on the 10th, and until late
In the night. The left wing under Gen Skc-
belief captured another one of the neighbor-
ing heights which viii enable them TO bonn
teAA tAN pbcitkOn anu lHE loMn Vi
Pleyna itself The enemy opposed Gen. Sko-
belief very feebly. Russian cavalry on the
Sophia road has defeated detachment of
Circassians from Pleyna. Their losses 10 the
present time are Insignificant.
4 Russian official dispatch from Pore
din on the night Of the 18th says: We can
nonadcd Plevna from daybreak yesterday un-
iii o'clock in the afternoon, when an assault
was made by our troops. BY evening three
Turkish redoubts had been taken by Gen. Sko-
belofl, while Gen. Rodionoff had carried the
Goivica redoubt. Gen Rodionof was wound
cd slightly. Adjutant Seheletar, commander
of the 18th infantry regiment and Gen. Do
browlskY, chief of the third rifle brigade, were
killed Six Russian battalions and one Rou-
manian battalion took part in the assault on
the GriNico redoubt. We captured two stand
ards and five guns. Our losses in wounded
aloneexceed five thousand men. The mum
ber killed had not been estimated at day
break
A telegram from ConstantinOple, dated
sept. II, says reassuring dispatches have been
eceived from Osman Pasha, Mehemet Ali
and Sulieman Pasha. A telegram from Shum-
la, Sept. 18th, shows that Mehemet Ali'scen-
trail column is at Kozedero. Mehemet Ali him
self had gone towards Eski Juma, and may be
working westward to compel the Russians to
abandon Tirnova and the Balkans. An official
telegram from Sulieman Pasha says: We
opened a violent eannonading upon the Rus
sian position in Schipka pass Thursday. which
dismounted several Of their guns and killed
great number of their artillerymen by explod-
ing their ammunition wagons. In the after
noon their artillery was silenced.
There is hardly room for doubt that
the weeks operation about Plevna did not re-
suit as fayOrablyfor the Russo Romanian army
as was reported in view of reports from Rus
sian sources. The Turkish bulletin about af-
fairs at Plevna reads: Since the 18th, the
Russians have made continuous assaults but
have been repulsed. We have recaptured
two redoubts on the Lovatz road which re-
Gently fell into the enemys hands. This CO.
ineides with detailed narratives received and
with later Russian bulletins. The friends of
Russia have reason to fear, therefore, that the
capture of the Greyiea redoubt is of much
less significance than was at first represented.
If SO, 0sman Pasha may wait his reinforce
ments without fear of further immediate mo-
Iestation. These reinforcements are, accord
ing to Vienna dispatch, already on the way
from Sofia.
The London Daily News, strong pro-
Russian, thus sums up the situations Look
ing impartially at the facts presented, we are
unable to form any other conclusion than that
the attack on Plevna has not only failed, but
so failed that it cannot be renewed under con-
dtions in which the Russian commander finds
himself placed. He has attempted what the
great German commanders attempted in their
French campaign, and has used up his slight
superiority OF men with extraordinary rapid
ity. He is liable TO be attacked at any given
part Of his front by force larger than any
which he can assemble there. In word, he Is
beaten. The battle reported at Dubruk, in
which the Russians were said to have been
defeated, must have been, If at all, at a village
five miles northwest Of Vratza on the Rahova
road. Reports say Osman Pasha has fortified
q position almost impregnable naturally at
Vratzs, upon which he viii retire ifdriyen from
Pieyna