Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-01
WAR NOTES.

A leading European War Critic thinks
that Osman Pasha's resistance at Plevna
has not been taken advantage of as it
should have been, for either through
jealousy, apathy, or want of mobility on
the part of their troops, Suleiman Pasha
and Meheme. All have permitted him,
unaided, to bear the whole brunt of the
Russian bombardment. He regards
Mehemet All as even more remiss than
Suleiman Pashat.
The reported Turkish victory at Biela
on Friday, proves to have been the re-
verse of what was announced. An eye
witness of the fighting states that the
Ottomans, under Mehemet All, made
five or six different attack on the Rus
sian positions, in each of which they
were repulsed with heavy loss, the
Muscovites holding their ground at the
close of the days struggle. The en-
gagement was not renewed on Saturday,
both sides being greatly fatigued by the
previous day.
The Correspondent of the London
Times with the Turks under Suleiman
Pasha does not rate that officer very
high for generalship, and says he has
thrown away the lives of his soldiers,
who might have been used to much bet
ter advantage for the Turkish cause.
Writing Sept l, he says: 81 have now
ascertained that there were between
1000 and 5000 wounded at one time
in Kezanlik on or about the Goth or
3Oth of August. At the same time
there were 1000 wounded at Philippop-
oils, and already 1850 had passed
through Adrianople. This makes to-
tai $3.50 wounded alone. 1t is impos-
sible to form more than rough estimate
of the dead. On the battleields l saw
innumerable graves, and from the &C
counts of the troops l heard of whole
battalions having been annihilated l
should think that the dead cannot be
taken at lower figure than 5000 to
40O0."
A War Correspondent says the ques-
ton of maintaining the Russian army in
Bulgaria during the winter is becoming
an important one. The supplies of food
for man and beast now stocked in Rou-
mania and Bulgaria would maintain
100000 men through the winter, and
10000 men would be sufficient to hold
the Russian positions during the season
when the roads are practically impassa-
bic for military purposes, and the rest
of the troops could be retired across the
Danube until spring. The question Of
getting these supplies to the army is the
chief one for consideration. The scar
city of fuel is the greatest difficulty to
surmount. Underground barrack huts
might be sufficient to keep the soldiers
warm in connection with their heavy
| fur or sheepskin coats, but for cooking
purposes fuel is, of course, necessity
If the Russian can overcome the fue
difficulty they can winter in Bulgaria.
A Correspondent of the New Yorl
Times, writing from Adrianople, give
a sad picture of the decolatlon wrough
Q by Turkish irregulars south of the Bal
kans. Visiting Galore, once place o
=, 10000 inhabitants, he says: ave founc
it still smoldering heap ofruins, with
out single roof remaining of a singl,
t whole wall left standing. The stencl
e of burned carcasses and rotting men ant
n cattle was in places almost insupporta
BILE. Going thence to Sopot, which wa
reached in the evening the writer re
!. marks: "Our earliest impression wa
It that it was as complete ruin as Galore
but in the morning we found that man
of the houses remained standing an
that there were still hundred peopl
: in the town. They were all that wer
d left out of 5000, and, except for thos
who had been killed before their eyei
\ they could make no guess as to wha
= had become of their old townsfolk. Til
S destruction of the people of this plac
l. and of Galore had been so fearful
complete that IN all my travels throug
hospitals and places of refuge furtht
= south had not met. to my knowledg
s. with one creature who had escaped frol
10 either of them. These are at presel
the two most awful examples of IL
fashion in which war in made in tn
ie miserable country 1t is only fair
RS state that the Turkish commanders see
t. at last to be awaking to sense of tt
position of affairs"