The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-22
THE EASTERN WAR.
OsMAN PAsHA's ARMY STARVING.
The situation Around Kars-Attack
Ou the GriyitEa RI 'dOubi-SuIei-
on the Lom, in Front
OfIh CEarOSitch

LONDON, October 20.-Osman Pashs
telegrsphs that the enemy attacked hls
position on tie right wing on Friday.
The attacking party, only one battalion
and some ssppers wss repulsed. TINS
was probably teint to draw Osnan's
attention from Grivitzs, Ms the Bucharest
seml-otticial paper, the Romana, su-
nour cas that the RoumanIsns thrice NJ
tscEed the second GriyIlz4 redOubt, but
were repuls.d Details are wanting.
LONDON. October 2O.-A SimnItz. dis
patch says thst rain has been falling
heavily with every appearance OF rs long
CoutIuuanCe The roads are AL but i'm
pssssb'e. Forty Turkish soldiers deserted
Osman Pasha camp 10 uay, and declare
that there wss 80 little TODD in Plevna
thst the men only got one pound OF
bread in twenty-tOur hours, and thst
there were 10000 men IN PIevua, who
could only be- INSIDE - surrender by
hunger.
LONDON, October 20 The Russians
nave before ksrs 10000 men Mouhk-
tar Pasha's army aL the time Of the battle
did not comprise more lhan 40 600
Among these were fourteen ballalions
drawn from the garrison of ksrs. Tne
. toman field army lost NJ least one
third OF lis strength in killed, wounded
and cspturc1. 4 few battslious remain
available to retire upon Erzeroum, and
united with the troops OF Is nAel Pasha
and those from Pervnek, torn the uu-
C,eus OF new army for the reli'. of
Kars. The Grand Duke Michael can
safely leave 10000 men in front of h4rs,
and with the remainder press forward
toward ErZeroum.
Russian bulletins from Plevns say
siege operations are progressing. fh' tire
Is certratcd upoa ore point, and ap
pears 10 have considerable effect.
Su eman Pasha Is concentrating Og the
LON in front OF th4 Clarowltch's lett
wing, with the intention oi attacking as
the weather permits
BUCHAREST, October 2O.-Ruslan
ticIal ace 'unls give the RoumanIan loss
Friday nj officers and 1873 men.
CoNsTANrINoPLE, October 2O.-Sulei-
man Pasna Lelcgraphs lhat the Russians
lave Incorporated Is 900 Buigarin's INTO
their army and that be expects Co be
attacked. He has intrenchsd hlmscl ;,
ss to cover RustchuS.
Aarh Pa-hs, the new Turkish smb4s
sadur u Paris, is instructed TO state im-
mediaLely on hs .rrival the terms on
which Turkey would make pesca If
the powers were TO mediate. In 60 se-
quence OF Mukhtar Pasha's disaster, al
the troops in ConsJantlnople are beng
sent haltlly TO Treblzond. ETouD Pasha
will go Immediately to take command st
ErZeroum. Sulcimap Pasha Is about u
send Colonel Valentine Baker and other
English officers back TO Constsntinopir.
LONDON, October 2l.-A Russian oiIi-
ci4l dispatch from GJrny Studen, report
that In one OF their assaults on FRIDAY
the RuumanIsrs entered and occupied
the second Grvtzs redou5t BE- ore
Plevns, but during the evening the re-
doubt WAS rcc4ptured b. the Turks.
A telegram dated Paredlr, SaturG y.
says the Roum4nlsns captured the re-
doubt on Frlday after three vigorous as-
sauts, bu, during the night the T.rk-
collected all their forces and rectplu-ei
It after a most sanguInary contest l.
WAS expected the fighting would cl'-
tlnue Saturday.
KARAJJL, October l7-General ii g.
mann Is advancing on Erzeroum. n ,r-
IS surrounded, and negotiations Tor IT.
surrender have been opened. The Rus
sian headquarters are now aL NeZInkOI.
General Lazarotf Is marching agalDs.
IsmaIl Pasha.
A Bucharest dispatch says that grr-
ersl, formerly in the American army,
aud nov correspondent of the New
York IDass. has been expelled from
Roumanla by the Russian authorities
because be served in the Turkish army
during the CrImean war Tins measure
appears to be Ill advised aud severe
A report l. current that the Roums
mans recaptured Gravitza redoub. on
Saturday, but tins Is not yet, SUNDAY
evening, confirmed. A member 0. the
Red Cross Society says orders have b IN
received 10 prepare for the reception Of
5000 wounded. THIS evidently Is h
gross exaggera,ion Tue loss Is probably
about eight or nine hundred. II Is said
that the TURKS had mined the redOuDt
and waited until 1t was full OF Rouns
mans and exploded 1t, aud then made
their assault 1t Is thought the fighting
Is still going on.
A specla from Tarlak, dated Saturday,
saw that the Turks have eyaCu4.eI h4
Gikoi .or var the Russians woId block
their communications with Rustchuk
and have retired 10 Rssgrsd.
The RIssIan cavalry from the Dabrud-
scna have advanced H. lar ss hayarns
A late telegram from Rssgrad says
detachment OF the army has arrived 1T
tust place, but tue po.ltlons al SoenIk a d
KsksdoI are retained tor the present. IL
seems evident, however, that y retrOgrsde
movement mas begun. SuIeIman Pasna
hss gone to make y personal inspection
OF the .ortlfcstlons OF RIschuk.
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