The Republican journal., 1877-12-13
Plevna Surrendered. Great Disaster to the
Turks.

LONDON, Dec. TO- Reuters Telegram
Company has received the following de-
spatches-
BUCHAREST, Dec. 10. After a severe
engagement yesterday before Pleyna, Os-
man Pasha, who was wounded, surren-
dered Internationally. The Turks in
Plevna were dying of hunger and cold.
There is great JOY here. Bucharest is
covered with flags.
BUCHAREST, Dec. 10, $40 p. NJ. Plevna
is now in the hands of the Russo Rouma-
MAN armies. The Agence Russo makes
the following announcement
Osman Pasha attempted to break thro'
in the direction of Widdin. He was at
tackled in front and rear and compelled
to lay down his arms after glorious strug-
gle, in which he was seriously wounded.
All with one voice praise his conduct.
DETAILS OF THE SURRENDER.
On Sunday, Osman Pasha, fnuing that
the desperate efforts of Suleiman Pasha
in the direction Of Tirnova to relieve him,
had failed, and that the Russian investing
line was intact, determined to make
last desperate effort to cut his way out.
He was driven to this step by The fact
soldiers dying of hunger and cold. The
horrors of Plevna, the thousands of I'M
buried bodies, the fearful suffering and
misery, are yet to be told.
In this desperate condition, the whole
Turkish army threw themselves on the
Russian lines in the direction of Widdin,
in the faint hope that they might be able
to heW their way out and escape. The
contest was fearful; assault after assault
was made, only to end in repulse; heaps
of dead and wounded lay in every direc-
ton; even the Turkish commander {Os-
man Pasha) was severely wounded, fight
ing with desperation at the head of his
columns; but it was impossible for 80
900 Turks to carry the double line Of
Russian intrencnmentS, behind which
lay 10000 Russian soldiers.
The Russians on Monday took the of
fensve against the broken and demoral-
lied Turkish army, and attacked them in
front and rear. The battle again ragged
teartully, and the Turks fought grandly,
but Intellectually. After fierce fight, in
which the fields Of Plevna run rivers of
blood, the Turkish army was completely
surrounded by the Russians. For the
Turks to fight longer would be annihila-
ton. In this extremity the Turks sent a
flag Of truce to the Russian commander,
who declined to accept any terms except
unconditional surrender. And these terms
the Turks were forced to accept, and the
whole Turkish army-estimated at 81, 900
to 10000 when the battle commenced, -
Internationally surrendered.
WHAT THE LONDON TIMES SAYS.
LONDON, Dec. II. The Times this
morning says Osman Pacha's surrender is
not merely the loss OF d considerable
army and good stronghold, but the final
collapse of the whole Turkish campaign
and the practical conquest of Bulgaria
The general expectation Of Europe has
been mistaken. The Turks have been as
completely defeated as the Austrians were
at Sadowa and the French at Sedan. They
refused the conditions which Europe and
England offered and must now take the
consequences, and sooner or later sub
init to the forfeiture of their authority, if
not of their territory, in Europe.
No European power, England least Of
ALL will interfere a moment, for peace has
come.