Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-18
4 GREAT BATTLE SOON
EXPECTED.
Inhabitants Along the Danube
Urged TO Withdraw.
HEAVY CANNCN.D NJ.
Capture of Il aSus sia N
E'OrtiGcAtiOn.

NEW YORK, May Il. A Times despatch from
GIurgevo Is AS follows A great battle is impvnd
ing. Already heavy cannouading Is 10 progress
For sever al days the Rus, ian, have been concen-
uating large force AT this point, pre- pa ratory to
a forced passage Of the Danube. The amy is in
fLc coalition and good spirits. Opposite to us in
Rutschuk the Turks are in strong force. They
viii certainly resist our advance and to morrow
or the dav after may witness bloody struggle.
1he TURKISH monitors are hurrying toward here
and ing positions near this spot and taking po-
sitlons near the point where the Russians have to
lay poDto0n bridges.
To night the scepe on the Danube is msgaif-
cent. Shells are bursting in the air. 10 the dis
lance camp fires and signal rockets tell the story
OF advancing forces.
The cannonade grows heavier, and it will not
take long to destroy Rutschuk. That place is the
weakest in the Turkish fortresses. Farther down
the nver the sky is redeemed by the flames of
burning Taltuka The town was fired by Russian
guns IN OltentZa
1t would be comparatively easy for the Russians
to cross at that point.
The headquarters of the left wing is still at
lbIail News has just reached us that Matchiu
some five miles distant from that point was set on
fire by the Russian army.
BUCHAREST, May II. Constantinope kilograms
which reported firing going on in Dabrudscha
Is unfounded. No engagement between the Rus
SLAMS and Turks in Europe, except on the line of
batteries between lbra and lsmal.
The Turks in Asia Minor captured Schum Kale,
a Russian fertilization in Arabia, on the Black
sea.
LONDON, May l.. 4 despatch from Erzeroum,
Monday, says the Russians advanced to Kara Ka-
lisa, in great force. The Turks will confront
them at Taprak kale. Both armies are preparing
for pitched battle.
The Russian firing from Ibrail to Matchn yes-
erday, was experiment with extra heavy guns,
as TO the possibility of destroying their gunboats.
1t IS stated that accommodating expedition Of five
hundred Russian infantry crossed the Danube in
boats little below REM. The Turks allow ed
them TO come well within range, when they
opened such fire that they were compelled to
treat to their boats with a heavy loss.
The Russians have crossed the Aluta and en-
tered Little Wallachia, which it is expected will
hitherto be occupied solely by the Roumsnians.
1t is reported that the Turks altogether captured
200 vessels in the Danube, containing 100, 900
heefohtves of wheat.
A despatch asserts that Persia has declared her
int ntion not TO Join Russia
Extensive mintsry preparations are making in
Corfu.
Reports are received of the massacre of retu ned
Ragah at Durhend, on more fearful scale than
any that has yet happened in Bosnia
y ConstantInople despstch SAYS that the capture
OF Sookgoomkale and the rising of the Circas-
SLAMS, who massacret the garrison and burned the
town, i' officially announced. The ironcad has
left Sookgoomkale for Bstoum, to obtain arms for
the Circassans.
LONDON May Il. The commanders of the
Turkish furttesses along the Danube have pub
lshed manifestos urging the inhabitants to with
draw further inland TO Balkans.
Enormous masses Of Turkish cavalry are said
to be visible opposite Galoty, and there is talk of
crossing the Danube.
Genl Skohebeff7s division Of Circassian Cos
sacks intended to head the advance o the Russian
Invasion is passing through Bucharest day, en-
route for the Danube.
| The crossing of the river is believed not to be
Immediately imminent. 1t seems though the
Russians have quietly and deXterously placed the
Roumanian troop where they could be blended
with their own.
The news that the Russians have some floating
batteries on the Danube, is confirmed. They are
described as small but ingenously made, consist
ing OF three pontoons joined together. Each bat
tery carries one gun. The pontoons were dosted
down the Pruth and were joined by marine de-
tachment.
Besides, the Russians have some larger steam
ers which have been armed.
The Turkish gunboats still refuged at Mat
chin, hence they do not attempt TO come down
the Danube.