Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-11
The Eastern War.

A correspondent Win tDc aEDy VI luz SHaAo
witch, at BaniIzka, f=w miles cast OF BIela,
under date of Friday evening, describes the
Turkish occupation OF Ablava on Wednesday,
the ea!laat attack Ct the Russians under Gen.
Tin ofsjef, the retreat of tbe Turks across the
Lem, and the reoecupation eff Ab!a7a By the
Russians, with The !oas Of 1000 mea to the
latter.
There was an armistice Gu Thursday for the
burial of the dead. Tic correspondent coatio
ucs as follows: Russian and Turk fratcrnlzad
heartily whenever they met during the arms
tioe. They shock hands, exchanged bread,
battered trinkets tor tobacco, aud for che first
time during the war came together like civil
led people. In the evening. after tho termina.
ton of the a5misice, the Russians eVecusted
Abava, finding it useless to attempt to hold
out logger with nine battalloDs against sixty.
Late this afternoon the whole division reached
Banizks, where they blvouac together WITH d
large part of The Thirty fifth Division, retreat
ing from .Gazova aud Polomanka.
The London Times correspondent, under
date Of BieIs, Saturday uocn, says: "Wo broke
up camp at Banitzka at surrise this morning.
add marched direct to Biela. la hope Of beirg
able to reach Giurgevo by Biela. the Ruschuk
road and Pyrgos ferry, rode amoDg the line
of forepoats dowu the Valley of the BapiiZka
ION to Buzosatzl. fund The road deserted,
except by a few Cossacks, who reported that
the Turks had taken the Dsmczia part Of the
road and occupied Pyrgos. breaking ul ferry
con municatioD. Turning back to Bela, to
make the trip by way CT SimDiiz', fcuud con-
| irmation of this unwelccme tidlDgs, aud also
| the fact t1at tho CzareTitch, who had been 1t
Kopriviiz,, on the Banizka LON, whittier be-
| had retired from K4pace wheI it became lm"
possible to hold Polomanka and Gabrova, was
expected at Bela this afternoon Saturday.
! The town is full Of troops, who are bivouackcd
| about 10 the Immediate ncighDorhood. Supply
| trains arc crossing the bridge. Some even are
retirog as far as Pavo. The army of the
| CzareWich will hold tie line ef the labira,
| GEAR Bela, with the Tbirtceuth Carps AS lar
| as 7 can learu, the Eleventh Corps still holds
tsposition east of Tirnova. The Twelfth Corps
bias retired across the Bella and Ru.tchuk:
road, holding Terstenik and Mechks. The
camp at Terstenik has been fortified witblo the
past few days, and is situ1ted on bill over
looking the Danube. '-:.y II,
The correspondent OF the London Tines at
Vienna sands the following 1T is not what
occurs 10 the front so much as what occurs 10
| the rear of Plevna which will give to The fight
1 there its Significance The movements of the
1.-TWO Romaniau divisions from the north aud Of
the column of L9vsz from the south leave no
! doubt that the Russians, whatever may be the
success of such pIan are preparing Sedan
flor 0 :mau Pasha, aud he will probably have TO
trust TO his own resources to eXtrolte himself.
The operations of Mehemet Ali and Suleman
l Psshs are probably too far off to be of use to
Ebim."
Intelligence has been received at Paris that
| the Turkish forces 90 the iro0ler have been
ordered to enter Servia Immediately If che
takes part in the war.
, The London Daily Telegraph Vienna dis.
patch, dated Monday pight, repeats the rumors
that O!map Pasha was retreaieg from PIev
ca. There s, however. absolutely 90 trust,
worthy information on this poiut from either
side.
| A dispalch from Suleiman Pssha of the 18th
Instant (Ausu:t) announces that column OF
Ottoman scouts found 10 the village of lfehanly
Mussuman women and a great number OF
children ucder five years OF age detained Erls-
ouers by the Bulgariaus. ,who he'd messaered
| all the male population and considerable nuni.
Der of the women. Ali they spared were some
young Mussulman women and girls, whom they
compelled to clotbe themselves 10 Christian
garments. Twenty five wagons sent from hoad-
Quarters conveyed the women and children to
Haio, where they have been supplied with at
| tendance aud food. Another telegram from
Suleiman Pssha announces that 90 tho same
dsy scouts advancing into the neighborhood OF
Kezanlk attacked and defeated party of Bal.
earians near the village of Magas. twenty OF
the latter being killed. Our scouts thea enter
ed the village, where they touCd about one
hundred Mussulman women and children,
whom they brought to headquarters. About
one hundred others had been shut up by the
Bulgsrians 10 q ncghboring convent. On their
communicating with one of the scouts the latter
sept for reDforcements, and the poor women
were liberated.
A third telegram from Suleiman Pasba, I'm
der date of the 9Th inst, reports the following
facts, OF which superior officer Of the British
navy at Boghaz was a witness: One hundred
and twenty inhabitants of the village of life.
hanIy had been mastered by the Cossacks and
Bulgarians On the advance of the Imperial
troops to Hahn. Bogbsz the Bugarians tisd into
the mountains, carrying off with them al! the
women under thirty years of age and the child
rer. An English officer was Witness OF these
massacres by The Cossacks and Bulgalians.
The military attache of the British Embassy
| anu lQ6 correspondents VI tuo 1LOuuoo HAoi oioS
Post, tho Times and the Daily Telegraph have
all made reports to the British Embassy and to
their journals.
A telegram from Adriauople reports that it
has been confirmed that more than half the
jewish inhabitants Of Kez,nlik-men, women
and cbiIdren-bave been mastered by the
Russians and Bulgariaus.
| The Sublime Porte has received from the
Ottoman authorities of the District Of TirnoVa
telegram reporting the tollo wing acts:
"ODe hundred and twenty Inhabitants OF
Terenbech Dogb, village 10 the District Of
Tirnova, three of them men. the rest women
and children, having falleu into the hands Of
the enemy, succeeded 10 making their escape.
They have been received at Zala BY the Impe
rial troops, worn out BY hunger and fatigue,
without clothes. aud after having wandered
about for several days among the hills, living
On herbs and roots These fugitives have been
sent to Oman Bazaar, and thence to shumla.
According to their dispositions the Bu garlans,
| having driven together all the Mussupaus in
! tho oiIIaoe tortured them fesrfully, while the