The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

army says: Preseka surrendered to us after
two hours bombardment. 1t is reported
that the garrison of Bilek desires to sur
render.
A BUCHAREST correspondent telegraphs
as follows under date of September IS: A
dispatch reached here this morning from
the Imperial headquarters stating that the
Turks had made desperate efforts to recap
ture the Gravitza redoubt, making seven in
efectual assaults and losing ten thousand
men.
| CHEvKET PAsHA telegraphs from Or
chaine, September %, that Hifsi Pasha,
commanding the provision train for Osman
/ Pasha, arrived at Dubriok after two hours
march from Plevna, having defeated fifteen
Russian battalions on the way. Osman Pasha
requested him to make sortie to establish
ajunction with this force.
A RUSSIAN official bulletin, dated Gorny
Student, Saturday, says that the Turks re-
| newed bombardment of the Schipka Pass
positions on Friday. In the afternoon they
began the assault on the right flank, but
were repulsed. They then attacked the
left an center, but were likewise repulsed
The fighting lasted until mig II
FEVER has broken out in Suleiman
Pasha's camp. Every house in Kazanlik is
hospital. The place reeks with fever
stencil all over the country from Schipka to.
Yeni Saghra, and can only be ridden over
with camphor in ones mouth. Dead bodies
are lying on the roadsides and in the fields
and gardens. From four to six hundred
bodies are in Yeni Saghra, and have been
| there ever since the battle, some weeks ago.
THE Greek Foreign Office announces that
on the 9th of September two hundred Bashi
Bazouks attacked the Greek Consulate at
Larissa, and were repulsed by the Consular
Guards. Greece has addressed a remon-
STRANGE to the Porte on the subject. The
Ministerial question is now being settled,
and the Ministers have agreed to withdraw
their designations. The post of President of
the Council, made vacant by the death of
Canaris, will not be allotted to any of the
present Ministers.
| IT is reported that great battle was
! fought on September 81, at Biela, lasting
| from nine O'Clock in the morning until seven
in the evening, and that the Russians were
completely defeated. A special from Shumla
| asserts that the Russians lost four thousand
killed and eight thousand wounded in the
battle. The TelegrapRs Pera correspondent
| says the telegram has just been received at
the War Office from Mehemet Ali announ
cling that serious fighting began to-day Fri
day September Ply. The Turks were advan-
| cling steadily when the message left Shumla.
No other paper has anything touching the
reported battle, although several have cor
respondents both with the Czarowitch and
Mehemet Ali.
| THE correspondent who was present at
and reported the battle at Plevna, telegraph
| ing from Bucharest under date of the 18th
| inst, takes most despairing view of the
Russian prospects. He says the Russians
| were definitely thwarted and finally para
| lyzed, en- the 11th, when they lost 10000
men. The Russian medical staff is over
| whelmed, and great numbers of wounded
are literally rotting and fostering, being un-
cared for. AS for the Roumanian army, its
surgical arrangements are utterly made
quate. Surgeons make no concealment Of
the fact that wounded mans time for being
looked at comes on an average two days
after he has been struck. The correspon-
dent doubts whether the attack on Plevna
| can succeed even after the arrival of the
guard. In spite of strong Russian SYM
pathies he considers that the Turks surpass
the Russians both as private soldiers and as
Generals.
A CORRESPONDENT, who was an eye-wit-
ness of the battle between the Czarowitch
and Mehemet Ali, at Biela, September 81,
telegraphs from Tzercunna, as follows: Five
or six different attacks were made by the
| Turks, with from one to three battalions
each, and all unsupported. The attacks
| failed. The loss to the Turks is very heavy.
A number of the killed and wounded can
be seen lying on the open ground over which
the combatants passed. The Russians main
tain their positions, which consist of a series
of formidable trenches. There has also been
some fighting at Kudicklei by a division Of
Ahmet Eyoub's corps, and at Vervatza by
two battalions detached by Mehemet Ali,
but the Turks were unsuccessful at these
places also. The whole action has been to-
tally different from what it should have
been. A feint has been turned into an
attack, and the real attack has not been car
ried out. The same correspondent tele-
graphs Saturday that all is still quiet.