Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-05-25

| Roumanian official reports estimate 400
wounded during the recent Turkish bonn
bardment OF Kalafat. The number of killed
is not stated.
A Turkish guDboat en- route TO Rustchuk
for armament was captured by Roumanian
battery on the 18th.
A Russian corps with cavalry and artillery
crossed the Danube near Pstbak on the 18th
and entered Dobrudscha.
Roumania declared war against Turkey on
the 18th.
A Rustchuk special Of the 18th says the
campaign will now proceed according to the
original programme, the Roumanian army
remaining on the defensive within its own
territory. The Russians are crossing the
Danube at eight different points simultane-
.ously and pressing forward toward the
Balkans with rapiditY. Another dispatch
says there was great movement among the
Russians at Giurgevo. Large numbers Of
troops passed through that place following
the road to simnitza. Extensive movements
of the Russian troops are taking place be-
tween Galatz and Ploiesti.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says the Ameri-
can officers In the service of the Khedive
have refused to bear arms against Turkey.
In token Of RoumsnIa's sympathy, the
RussieDs are 90 be allowed to pass through
Bucharest,
The Turks are fortifying the passes Of the
Balkans Abdul Kerm is drawing all the
forces from Macedonia and Albania TO the
Danube, aud the National Guards through
out the South are arming, and all available
troops marching northward.
The success Of the Turks and Circassian
insurgents in Asia is officially reported. The
Russian movement upon Kars has come to a
stand still.
The Turks have captured 200 Russian YES
sells in the Danube, many of them wheat
laden.
Persia has declared her intention not to
Join Russia. The Russians have entered Little
Wallachia.
A Jsssy dispatch OF the 18th SAYS 1000
Russian infantry with cavalry and artillery
are marching in the direction of SimnitZa,
and 1t was believed the main body Of the
Russians would attempt to cross the Danube
there.
The Sultan has resolved to conscript
Christians into the army.
Several channels of the Danube, about
Matchin, near Galatz, have been closed with
torpedoes by the Russians. The Russian
force at Galatz is estimated at 175,OOO.
On the night of the 18th the Turks in the
village OF Turtukai made a general attack
upon the Christians, whom they outnum-
bered. All the males were killed and the
elder women shared the same fate.
In an action near Kars on the 10th the
Turks had sixty-four killed. The Russians
lost one officer and twenty men killed and
ffty-four wounded. The Russians carried
two outworks with nine guns at Ardahan on
the 18th. Fourteen Russians were killed and
many Turks. The Russians were reported
falling back from Kars on the 18th. Severe
fighting was reported imminent at Batoum.
Servia has assured Austria that she will not
take part in the war.
Two attacks Of the Russians on the Turk
ish position at Ardahan, on the 18th, were
repulsed. At the third attack the town and
fortifcations were captured.
A Constantinople telegram of the Goth re-
ports the defeat of a Russian force of 800,
with great loss, near Siel. A company of
Cossacks were annihilated. The fighting
still continued. The Russians lost 800 killed
in the skirmish near Kars.
Shiek ul Islam has proclaimed holy war
against Russia.
The Turks are confning their preparations
to Strengthening the Danubian fortresses.
They have, it is believed, no more than 2OO,-
900 combatants at the mouth of the Balkans
to resist 100000 Russians.
The Russians occupied Oltenitza on the
10Th and bombarded Nfkopolis. The Turks
sent reinforcements to the latter place.
The Russians in the vicinity of Tchuruk-
sou sacked and burned all the villages and
mastered the women, old men and children
So says London dispatch.
Fnghtful massacres in the Caucasus by the
Russians are reported by Turkish papers.
Bucharest special of the 2lst says it is
obvious that the Russians are in no hurry to
cross the Danube, and it is probable no cross
ings further west than Hirsova will be at
tempted before early in June.
The fall of Arabian enables the Russians to
turn the force operating against that place to-
ward Kars. Fifteen battalions were sent from
the force investing Batoum on the 18th in
the direction of sukum Kaleh, to arrest the
insurrection which spread from that center.
The defenses Of Batoum are unimpaired.
The Turks on the 21st were concentrating
large masses of troops at Turtukai and
sistova, expecting the Russians to make a
powerful attempt TO cross the Danube within
few days.
The Gear will leave st. Petersburg for the
Danube June 2, and be absent about three
weeks.
The Caucasian insurrection was unex-
pected by Russia. Despite the statement
that the revolt has been suppressed, troops
are being concentrated for operation against
the insurgents. The greater part of Tchetchna
is in arms against the Russians.
Odessa advices of the 21st say a panic
reigns along the Black Sea since the fall of
Sukum Kaleh.