The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-06-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.



Turks are recovering from their fit of despond-
ency and threaten to assume the offensive
against the invaders. They will, it is said, de-
liver battle in the Araxes valley. Olti has been
evacuated by the Russians. In Montenegro
there has been more severe fighting between
the brave mountaineers and their hereditary
foes. After a three days combat, or series Of
mbats, the Montenegro troops were COM
PEELED to withdraw from the neighborhood of
Ncsics. The Turks were in overwhelming
force, and the mountain ers were evidently
badly beaten.
Advices from the seat of war in Asia an
nounce that Turkish detachment has entered
the Russian district of Achaich, and threatens
the Russian communication with Arabian.
Should the Turkish commander succeed, the
victualing Of the Russian armies will be very
difficult. The Turks at Kars have made several
sorties, but were repealed with some loss. At
Batoum the Russians are pushing their siege
works.
An involuntary experiment as to the extent
of damages an English Whitehead or "Fish'
torpedo can accomplish, was made by q Russian
detachment on the 4th of June. A train trans
porting the torpedo from Galatz to Ibrail had
almost reached a point where the road strikes
the Danube when the internal machine ex-
ploded, blowing the train off the face of the
earth, killing the engineer, fireman and brake
man, and tearing up quarter of a mile Of
track.
To I N+c %hn Trrh% iY1rp
before Kars was of most desperate character,
and resulted rather disastrously to the Mus
covites. The fighting was opened by deter
mined attack of the Russians on the outer
works of the enemy, in which they were re-
pulsed. The Turks thereupon took courage
and boldly assumed the offensive. They sue
ceeded in surprising the Russians by a flank
movement, and the slaughter that followed was
very great. The Russians asked no quarter.
and the Turks offered none. The sorties of the
Turks were barren in result and only served to
tire out the men, while the Russians repulsed
every attack with apparent ease.
Sickness, especially typhus, causes greater
gaps in the Turkish ranks in Asia than volun-
teers are able to fill up. During the last six
months at least 10, 600 men have died in hospi-
tails.
A London correspondent telegraphs from
Rutrchuck: "The immense mass of material
which the Russians are moving toward the
Danube can scarcely be lodged in the depots on
the river before the LIST of July. It is, there
ore, scarcely probable that any attempt will
be made to Cross before that month"
Berlin dispatch says Russia's reply to En-
glands last note is satisfactory to the latter
.oo--a~ 1
ests in the Persian gulf will not be interfered
with, and rejects the idea of interference with
the Suez canal, and demands radical change
in the administration of the Christian prov
inces of Turkey
The Circassians in the Russian service, num-
boring six cavalry regiments, having refused to
operate against their Mohammedan brethren,
have been sent from the main column toward
Bayazid
Further details of what is called "Gortscha-
koff's reply to Earl Derby" are as follows: eff
the Turks make peace directly Russia crosses
the Balkans, Russia will be ready to accord
peace; but otherwise she would have no alter
native but to CONQUER and dictate a peace to
the Porte. If England wishes to prevent the
Russians from entering Constantinople, she has
only to exert her influence upon the Turks in
order to induce them to yield immediately after
the Balkans are passed
war correspondent telegraphs: 1.-THE idea
among the Russians is that half measures will
not suffice. Bulgaria must become as autono-
NOUS as Servia and Roumania A rattle
strained feeling is again taking hold of til
public mind relative to Eastern affairs"
Turkish accounts claim that the position now
occupiedl by the army of Moukhtar Pasha, in
Asia Minor, is practically unassailable.
The Turks are organizing fresh corps of
10000 cavalry. SOILS s4V "
Another fierce battle is reported between
Turks and Montenegrins-t former number
ing 10000 and the latter 5000 The Montene-
grlns were strongly posted in the mountains,
and defed all attempts of their hereditary foes
to dislodge them. Finally, after thinning out
the Turkish ranks by their weI-directed shots.
the nountaineers assumed the offensive.
Sally ing out from their ambuscades, they poured
calling fire into the enemy's ranks. creating
wild panic and rout. The Montenegrins pursued
the fleeing Turks for several miles, killing over
1900, and wounding as many more. Very
few prisoners were taken, as no quarter was
given or asked. ISL. .ts .-,.t.ost
By way of Constantinople accounts are re-
ceived of 6ye-hours' engagement near Deli
bahia, q few miles northwest of Toprak-Kale,
between the Turks and Russians, in which the
latter, the attacking party, were repulsed with
severe loss, the Turks continuing to hold their
position. The Turkish commander was among
the killed.
The Turks have shot number of Russian
spies found within their lines. i
The Bashi-Bazouks stationed in the vicinity
of Constantinople are committing excuses,
and there is much alarm among suburban resi-
dents. #..i4a #t%
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.