New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-03
which il had made its way He is the man who 'eiis
of the great carnage' quoted above VIII you
have another bit Of hIm'

The ultimate success ~ the overwhelming forces
brought M against them seemed 10 have inie,,eu, u n
maUs. I'm whom az this iunciurc dOegcd icSplNr w.
clc y shown weld with life Around me g,is
desnrratc combat ensued, whilst tie ottoman lnla'
forming nfo irregular squares prepared to ght on 10 nc
DEATH The carna-e both sides had now become tI
Uhe. the inferior tore displaying pr0digie@O Ndlp d,t
thrlr assauis ncrcey sacrificing in manner that
forcbodcd dearly-bougnt victory.
He winds mp by saving that the invading for'e
was finally routed leaving the ground covered WIN
dead and that. following up the victory, the SUI
tans troops cleared ont the pass, which Is now
guarded. Perhaps they did. and perhaps 1t - bur
the official dispatch from the Sublime Porte, dated
LAY later. says nothing Of the kind but only alleges
that Raouf Pasha "attackel and repealed the en-
emvv A correspondent whose bulletins go beyond
the buncIns Of the Turks themselves. ought to have
Lis pay doubed--or stopped. H. is evidently near
kinsnan Of that astonishing person who with MS
own hand. or rather with his own pen, slew 4,OOo
russians at Bttum some two months ago or less
They are both on the same journal and no EHgnsh
journal is so bad served in the field no other mas
during the last seven years. made ltseIl Such
European reputation for untrustworthy news IL
seems bent on rlvaling its earlier performances
when it announced lis fresh attack by Germany ON
France, AID proclaimed the fall of Khiva before ii
had happened or could have happened
That oil the recent mistakes committed IN
good faith like the earlier ones, don't question:
There is no need TO question it, and there Is no pleas
ure in exposing them. But they all bear directly
on the point of English Interference, which the jour
nal that makes them is pressing upon the Govern
ment and people of England. The same is true OF
the accounts OF atrocities which commented on IN
a former letter. and which are daily repeated with
every circumstance of horror and every possible al
tention to probability They may De true; 1t Is TOO
how unf frIp
say. sorrowfully enough is that the fact OF their
being published in The Daily Telegraph does not
provc talt they aie true. Another appeared on
Tuesday from Shuna, based at first on the
testimony of two Moslem refugees, then
apparently confirmed by the inquiries OF the cor
respondent himself among the survivors OF the
massacre The story in brief is that the villagers oil
Ebcli were flying before a C0ssack advance, were
oyertaien. and men, womcnand children puIcucIo"'
tie Cossacks first plying their lan'es ana lheh
bringing up field artillery to complete the slaughter.
II is NOT very plausible story on the iaee oil H. anu
# seem, to agree essentially with an incident mar
rated bv another witness. According To TINS iaI'er
fine Turks were moving of with huge convoy ol
provisions and munitions of war; strongly escorted
They were attacked and the convoy captured II lheie
were women and children IN the party they may
have suffered with the rest from artillery hre' OF
from lauCc-wOundS IN hahu-'o-I'"" "@"' ''''
Turkish and Russian horse. II would be easy Tor
one whose sympathics ram that way To add emoel-
,nmcut> and 90 forget to mention the armed escort
whose pre.euce brought on fight. Perhaps the
Ens,iaus may find time 10 attend 10 some OF these
s,,,,.t Le sooner ihe better certainly. Until con-
tr,dir,d they have an effect upon Ea.l'.h opinion,
and Prince Gort,cha .oit would be il,-mtornrd oI
what goes ON in thi, country hc believes it a'~o-
lntcly impossible that the party which wants Wa"
with Russia should even now get the upper band.
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