Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04
THE EUROPEAN WAR.
THE NEXT GREAT BATTLE.


states that the Russian Guard is, accord
ing to information received from Buch-
Arrest, expected to be in position in
front Of Plevna by the end of this week.
Its arrival will add force of close up
on $4,000 combatants equipped with
excellent arms of precision, to the fight
ing strength of the Grand Duke Mich
olas. Gossip in the camps in front of
the intrenchments of Osman Pasha as
serts that
A GRAND ATTACK
will again be made on the Ottoman
earthworks about the 10th. On this
occasion the error previously committed
of hurting masses of stormers in isolated
onsets against redoubts stilled by bonn
bardment and garrisoned with marks
men armed with the most deadly
breech-loaders will be avoided The
works are to be first seriously damaged
by long course of heavy discharges
from siege guns, and the fire of the in
fantry is to be
SUBDUED BY STEADY RIFLE
practice before an attack is hazarded
1t is believed in the Russian line that
these precautions must insure success,
and that Plevna will fall about the mid
die Of this month. A general advance
is then anticipated by way of Sofia.
The Balkans are to be turned, and an
approachto to
ADRIANOPLE GAINED
by more circuitous but less difficult
road than that which leads through
Schipka Pass. Some difficulties, how
ever, may arise in carrying out this pro-
gramme which the critics in the camp
of the grand duke so glibly define. 1t
is very doubtful if the imperial guard
can be taken to their post in front of
Plevna before the middle of October.
By that time the weather may have
rendered
THE BULGARIAN ROADS
not only difficult for the passage of
troops, but practicable only with much
time and patience for forwarding sup
plies, provisions, and munitions, which
are conveyed in native Arabas. In
consequence of the late rains, although
settled weather has again set in, several
days will be required before military
operations can be resumed. AT this
season of the year it is extremely prob
lematical how long
THE PRESENT FINE WEATHER
may last, and if it suddenly breaks
within the next few days not only may
the arrival Of the guard be still further
delayed, but the advance of the siege
artillery and heavy shot and shell which
are to herald the attack by the house
hold troops NAV be
SERIOUSLY HINDERED.
Nor will the presence of the Guard
raise the force in front of PIevna to
much larger numbers than was arrayed
against the position Of Osman Pacha be-
fore the last bombardment was com
menced, early in September. The Rus
sian and Roumanian armies then in po-
sition mustered, or were said to muster,
$4,000 MEN
now. by some mysterious process, for
which the losses in killed and wounded
will not fully account, they nave dimin-
ished to under $4,000 The Imperial
Guard will at the outside add to their
strength
10000 INFANTRY,
as at least 10000 of the soldiers which
constitute it are mounted. If the army
of the Grand Duke Nicholas at the be-
ginning of September could not invest
the place, there seems to be no reason
that it should be able to do so even when
reinforced by the Guard, and, if Plevna
is not invested, the same conditions oi
attack upon fortress free to receive
supplies and recruits will still be found
unaltered
THE TURKISH LOSSES.
A London dispatch of Oct. 1st says
that Osman Pasha's losses from the
Russian cannonade were exceedingly
light, but on the day when he retool
the redoubton the Loftcha road he LOST
5000 men, There are now Sept %
only 1000 wounded Turks at Plevna.
! THE SUFFERING.