The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE WAR IN THE EAST.


The Russians have ordered contractors to
construct 1856 miles of railway in Bulgaria, to
build huts for 1000 men, and hospitals for
$4,000.
The title of Ghazi (conqueror) has been
conferred upon Moukhtar and Osman Pasha.
The inactivity of the Russians in Asia is ac-
counted for by the official announcement that
their troops have been engaged in quelling
formidable instruction in one of the provinces
in that region.
A Karajal (Asia) dispatch of Oct. 8 sayb a
general engagement was then in progress be-
tween Moukhtar Pasha's army and the Russian
forces commanded by Gen. Melikoff.
Suleiman Pasha has succeeded Mehemet Ali
as Commander in-Chief of the army of the
Danube, and Raouf Pasha has assumed COM
mar.d of the army of the Balkans.
Russia has ordered 800 Krupp cannon.
The typhus fever is playing havoc with the
refugees about Tirnova.
Reports of the battle fought on the Cd and
Sd of October between the Turks and Russians,
near the Armenian frontier, show that it was
the most destructive engagement of the war in
that quarter. The forces of the Grand Duke
Michael surprised and captured an i'm
portant fortified work on the right flank of
Mukhtar's position, and endeavored to push for
ward and establish themselves on the road be-
tween Mukhtar's army and Kars. The obstinacy
of the resistance at the point first assailed gave
the Turks time to get under arms, and des-
perate struggle followed, lasting all day, and
resulting in the repulse of the Russians at all
points except that of the first attack. At the
close of the engagement the Russians held the
post they had captured, but appear to have
found il untenable, for their own reports adj
nit that it was abandoned. They also confess
q loss of 5000 killed and wounded, claiming
that the Turkish loss was equally heavy From
all accounts at this writing it must be set down
as drawn BATTLE
A Berlin dispatch says ''The Russians off
cial1y acknowledge the loss of 50, 900 men up te
Sept. a."
The character of the recent fighting neal
Kars begins to be better understood. The
Russians suffered a check, but the Turks
gained no decisive result. The result seems
to be something like Plevna or Schipka-
desperate fighting, enormous losses, and
no gain to either of the combatants
Moukhtar Pasha, in a dispatch dated the It'll
inst, reports the retirement of the Russians tx
the position they occupied before the recen
advance on his lines. He claims that his losses
in the recent battles were about 1900, while hf
inflicted a loss of 10000 on the enemy. a
dispatch from Bucharest says "there are al
ready two feet of snow in Schipka pass. Troop
are obliged to sit in frozen trenches, ankle del
in mud"
Russia is mobilizing another army corps fo
Bulgaria.
Now the Russians are able to account TO-
their failures. They say that the information
sent out by the newspaper correspondents ha
thwarted their plans. Accordingly it has beer
decreed that the correspondents shall here
after only be admitted to the lines of active
operations when engagements are in progress
and that at other times they must remain q
the corps headquarters.