The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-13
German flnanciers are alarmed by

German financiers are alarmed by
the way Russia is issuing paper
money. 100000 roubIes have
been printed and issued since the
war began.
Turkey has issued one milliard
piasters of paper money. "redeems-
BILE" in 20 years, at the rate of so,
100000 piasters annually.
july 6.-The Asiatic campaign
is confessedly a failure, and Gener-
al Milikof has been recalled. The
Turks have reached aud reinforced
Kars. The battle at Batoum result
ed in their favor, and the Russians
we're driven back to Ardahsu. The
Kurds have haFrassed the Cossacks
badly, and prove q match for them.
The London Times declares that
reinforcements amounting to q new
army must be sent TO Asiatic Tur-
key, to enable the Russians to sue
coed there.
The CzSrowitz will command the
Russian army which is to besiege
Rustchuck.
JULY 0.-The decision of the
Turks to abandon Montenegro is
confirmed. They have lost ii 600
Bsshi Bazouks, and more than that
number of regular soldiers, aud ac-
complished nothing but the killing
of q few thousand of the hardy
mountaineers.
Persia allowed Turkish corps to
move across Persian territory, and
the corps was thus enabled to sur
prise the rear of the Russians at
Bayazid, and jeopardize the Russian
position so as to force the Russians
to retreat. 1t is expected that Per-
STA will be invaded by a Russian ar
my to punish this breach of neu-
trality.
JULY 9.-The Russians have forty
battallions on the north side OF
Kars, and the bulk of the army has
returned to Alexandrapol. The
line between Mukhter Pasha's head
quarters and Kars was perfectly free
on the 4th, and q deputation of citi-
zens went out and thanked him for
driving back the Russians.
The Turks are besieging the Rus
sian position at Bsyazid, and expect
to capture it.
The Russians admit their present
force in Asiatic Turkey cannot cope
with the Turkish armies there.
just after the war began, the Rus
sian government discovered that on
~ one-third of the transport ships
were fit for service,
The Czarowitz claims that body
of Russian cavalry has captured tt
novia and driven the Turks back to
Osman Bazaar.
The Turkish monitor which was
aground at the mouth of the Dan
ube has been captured by the Rus
slams.
july 10.-StartliDg news comes
from Cons tantinOple that the city
is under a reign of terror. Crowds
of lawless Turks fill the streets, the
stores and cafes close at shutdown,
and general massacre of Christians
is feared. The Russians have cut
kustendji off and began to besiege
it. They are massing all along the
line of the old "Trajan's wall,' and
concentrating immense forces on
the Bulgarian side of the Danube,
preparatory to a general advance.
When that advance begins, tremen-
dOus fighting is expected. The
Turks are hurrying all available for
ces to Bulgaria, in the hope of sue
cessfully opposing the Russian onset.
The Turks are now committing
massacres in Bosnia equal to the
atrocities of 1876. Villages are burn
ed, men, womsn and children
slaughtered, and all sorts of outra-
ges committed, the effect of which
will be to incite Austria to occupy
Bosnia and drive the Turks out.
The determination of England to
prevent Russia from capturing Con-
stantinople, the quiet but active war
preparations in Austria and France,
the order of Germany prohibiting
the export of horses, and various
other indications, make the POSSIBLE
ity of general war, with England,
Austria. France and Turkey, on one
side, and Russia, Germany and Its-
~ on the other, more probable now
than at any previous time.