The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-11
WORRYING TIC TURKS With FEINq&
Banishment Of All Poles
from Bucharest.
THE DERBY NOTE ANSWERED
Situations Of the Contending Armies
in Europe and Asia.
lex CABLE TO THE HERALD.1

The HERALD correspondent at Castel.
nuova reports as follows:-'After making
his dispositions with great care and Selling
several important positions in front of
Krystaz and at the immediate entrance Of
the Duga Pass, Sulieman Pacha ad-
vanced with several battalions and noun
tain artillery to force the defle held
by the Montenegrins. There being only
one available road, and that leading
directly through the Duga Pass, the Turks
sought by dint of sheer fighting to seize
the bends of the road so as to place their
guns in position TO support tho advance Of
the head Of their column.
FAVORED BY FORTUNE.
''The ground was favorable for this plan Of
operations for the first two days. The Mon
tenegrins slowly retired before the well de-
ployed Turkish line until the narrowing
Of the ground and the increasing difficult
ties of the road forced the Turks to reduce
their front. Then the concentrated fire
of the Montenegrins, delivered from every
rock and gully Of the rugged mountain
slopes, began to tell with frightful effect on
the Turks.
DESPERATE STRUGGLE.
''Amid perfect hail storm Of bullets the
brave Turkish infantry struggled onward,
encumbering the road with their dead and
wounded at every step. The guns posted
before Cola shelled the defle in advance
but with little effect, as the Montenegripa
were we'll covered and suffered only when tho
Turks desperately charged on them amid the
rocks and brushwood.
ON THE THIRD DAY.
s'The fighting on the third day was almost
hand to hand, the combatants firing in each
others faces at few yards distance. But,
although the Turks gained ground slowly. it
was at a terrible cost in men. Their superior
numbers enabled them to push up supports
to take the place Of the slain, and it seemed
as if the head of the Turkish column Of
attack was melting away as before furnace.
HOPELESS EFFORT.
Notwithstanding the stubborn bravery Of
Sulieman Pacha's troops the fourth days
fighting found them no nearer the key Of
the pass, and they had already lost nearly
three thousand men. Still they endeavored
to maintain possession Of the ground they
had gained at such fearful cost. But
the effort was hopeless The hardy
Montenegrins repulsed every attempt
to advance, and it became now only ques-
ton of covering the retreat Of the exhausted
column.
THE RETREAT.
''This was commenced by q furious on
slaught on the Montenegrins by the
troops furthest in advance, but which was
quickly repulsed by murderous fire. The
retreat now became general, and the VIC
torious mountaineers speedily followed the
retiring Turks killing an immense number,
and reoccupying their former positions.
LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES
'In this prolonged and bloody combat,
lasting over five days, the Turks have lost
over four thousand men and quantity
of arms left on the field. The VIC
torious Montenegrins lost 700 men,
and the disproportion in casualties
is due wholly to the natural
strength of their position and to the neces.
sary exposure of the Turks during the
attack and retreat. The failure of the
Turks to force the Duga Pass is believed
here to insure the capitulation of Nicsics
within a short time, but it is likely that
Sulieman Pacha may again attempt to re-
lieve the town"
TURKS LOSING HEART.
According to the HERALD correspondent
at Castelnuovo, many Moslems in Bosnia are
exasperated at the burden imposed upon
them by the Turkish war contributions.
They express their discomfort in the most
open manner, and appear to have lost all
confidence in the Porte. They are strongly
in favor Of the incorporation of their native
province with Austria, and are not likely to
render much more aid to the authorities at
Constantinople.
RUSSIAN TEINT AT RusrcHUK.
The HERALD correspondent at Rustehuk