The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
The War in the East.

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: : tile Turkish victories at Plevna. TIL
I / Russian right wing, numbering 10000
Y was all engaged. Mr.. Laynrd also ha
2 news of an important Turkish success
near ESki Saghra. The Russians los
several guns, and the Turks occupied
Eski Saghra.
The porte has the following Ottcia
: dispatch: The Russians on Tuesday
attacEed ROuf Pasha at EsLi Saghra
after seven hours fighting ROuf Pash;
, Tetreated upon karabunar, but Sulemar
r PaSla, coming Qp, repulsed the enemy
and recaptured EShi SaghTa, capturing
! several guns and intlictIng considerable
loss on the RI 3sians.
A Berlin dispatch to the Times states
that two Turkish monitors have beer
captured at Nlk0pOlis nearly ready fOl
service.
J THE NUMBER OF RUSSIANS ENGAGED AT
PLEONA.
LONDON, Aug. 3.-The News, in its
detailed narrative of the battle of PIev-
na, gives the Russian forces as 80 ,0OC
infantry, 100 field guns, and three bri-
gades OF cavalry, and says:
This defeat makes the Russians hold
i'll Bulgaria extremely precarious and
must compel the withdrawal of troops
from some other point where they are
nearly as badly needed to beat the
IurEs at Pleyna. Beaten they must be.
and that speedily, if the Russian army
Is not forthwith to retire iuglOriOuslv
INTO the trane DaDubian principalitieS,
The News Bucharest correspondent,
telegraphing on Thursday, says: The
troops recently engaged at Plevna have
retired behind Osma river.
The sixteenth division of the fourth
| corps Is crossing at Simuitza, and will
probably reinforce them. All the scat
! tered Russian troops now in the prin-
| cIpaIltIes have been summoned into
| Bu! garia.
understand the Turks are not ad
vancing eastward from their Plevna
! position, but are masSing a strong force
from Plevna nOrthward toward LOcca.
Berlin papers consider thaS the battle
OF PieTna puts an end to all hope of
terminating the war this year, and lLs-
sens the chances Of intervention by
Austria or England.
The Times Belgrade correspondent
states that there are strong signs of ap-
preaching mobilization Of the Seryian
army. Several kilograms confirm the
Turkish occupation of Eski Sagh.
The Telegraph's special from Kara
bunar says the Russians lost five guns
at Eski Saghra.
LONDON, Aug. "A Tirnova dispatch
says: The situation is serious. AS long
as the Turks hold Plevna the army
corps here cannot be further weakened
to reinforce General Gaurks. There are
some donbtsCyhether he will be able to
retain the advanced position beyond
the Balkans.
A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE RECENT
BATTLE.
LONDON, Aug. 3.-The Daily News
correspondent sends from Paredon, near
Pleyna, a graphic account of the recent
battle, the substantial facts of WGich
are as telegraphed to the United States
yesterday.
The following closing scepes give a |
vivid idea of the extent of the Russian |
disaster:
1t will be noted that the correspond
ent is with Prince Schackoskoy's COM |
mand, and does not purpOrt to give any |
account of the condition or losses Of |
General kTuldener'S corps. And now !
all hopes OF success anywhere was dead, |
nor did chance offer to make the best |
of defeat. Prince SchackoSEoy had not |
man left TO cover the retreat. The |
Iurks struck without stint; they had |
the upper hand for once, and were de- |
tSI W Stip" biiHL CilcJ hIIS" IUN /
to make the most Ut it.
THEY ADVANCED
in sWarms through the dusk on their
original first position, and captured the
Russian cannOns before the batteries
could be withdrawn.
The Turkish shells began once more
to whistle over the ridge above Pady-
slava, and fall into the village behind
now crammed with wounded; the
streams of wounded vending their
painful way over the ridge We're inces-
SAINT. The badly wounded mostly lay
where they fell.
Later in the darkness baleful sort of
swarmed over the bat
tletield, in the shape of Baslri- -Baz0uks,
who spared not. Lingering there on
the ridge till the moon rose, the staff
could hear from below, on the still night
air, cries of pain and entreaties for
mercy, and the yells of Odthirsty,
fanatical triumph. 1t was indeed an
hour to unstriDg the sternest heart.
We stayed there to learn, it it might be,
what troops were coming out Of the
valley OF the shadow of death below.
Were there, indeed, any at all to come
1t did not seem to be the case.
THE TURKS
lad our range before dark, and we could
watch the flash OF the flames over against i
rs, and then listen TO the scream of the |
she'll as it tore by us. The sound of the
life bullets was incessant, and the es- {
cortland retreating wounded we're struck.
A detachment at length begun to come
up. but it will give an idea {
If the disorganization to say that when {
/ company was led off to cover some
what the wounded in Podishonya, it
lad to be made up of men from several
regiments.
About nine o'clock the staff Quilted
he ridge, leaving it Uttered with groan- ,
ng men, and moving gently lest we i
hoald tread on the PROSTATE wounded.
Ne lost Our way as we bad lost our /
Irny. We could find no rest for the | s
oles of our feet, by reason of alarm of t
he Bashi- Baz0uks sWarming in amcng /
he scattered and retiring Russians. t
lt length at one o'clock in the morning. j
saving been in the saddle since six '
fcloek on the previous morning, we
gere turned into a stubble field, max
ng our beds of the reaped grain.
Correspondent and Cossaek alike unt,er
he stars, but we were not even then
llowed rest before four O'Clock an I
Iarm came that the Bashi- Baz0uks :
Fere upon Its, and we had to arouse I
nd tramp away, the only protection of g
he chief of what in the morning was :
ne army, was now a handful of Wearied I
'assacks,
GEN. KRUDENRR SENT WORD 2
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