Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-29
THE RUSSIO-TURKISH WAR.
HORRIBLE ATROCITIES.

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Under date of Aug. Oath the Turkish
minister Of foreign affairs thus informs
his diplomatic agents abroad: "The
Russians, on entering Eski-Saghra, dis
armed the Mussulmans. They employ
ed mokhtars to fetch the Mussulmans
out of their houses, and they were mas
sacred. Eleven hundred were thus put
| to death. The Russians entered Lovatz
and fifteen women and children, fleeing
from the invaders, were killed Others,
to escape outrage or death, had to
abandon everything, even their children.
Every Mussulmans house in Lovatz
was pillaged after the recapture Of the
town. The Russians carried the devas-
tation and carnage into the neighboring
districts. They drove out all the Mus
sulman inhabitants of the village of
! Herste, and
BURNED ALL THE MEN AND SOME OF THE
! WOMEN
| Only one woman escaped. Seventy
Mussulmans and Imum of Yuklem were
| shut up in barn, which was fired
Forty-four other Mussulmans were mas
sacred and all the Mussulman women
were outraged. Eight young girls who
resisted were killed, and two burnt with
the men. The greater part of the other
women, with their children, were taken
outside Of the village, where one after
another, with their children at their
sides they were slaughtered. Twenty
women and children who escaped mas
sacre were rescued by the Ottoman
| troops.
THE ENGLISH MILITARY ATTACHE HIMSELF
witnessed all these horrors. The Rus
slams disarmed the Mussulmans of Eski-
Saghra, Kezanlik, and neighboring VIII
| lagos, and distributed their arms among
the Bulgarians, who drove down 400
Mussulmans to the River Tundia and
massacred them. At Eski-Saghra and
| its neighborhood the Bulgarians con-
tinue to massacre the Mussulman pop
ulation. Atrocities committed by Cos
sacks and Bulgarians continue. Wo-
men and children who had sought ref
uge IN Khidirkeni were massacled.
Other families, shut up in a granarh
were delivered by our troops, among
them several women and children
wounded The Bulgarians put
TO THE FIRE AND SWORD
the Mussulman village of Lofedji and
several others, after having carried off
women and girls, whom they outraged,
killed, and mutilated horribly. One wo-
man and her two SONS were the only
| persons saved"
AN OFFICIAL ENGLISH REPORT.
Mr.. Fawcett, sent by Layard, the
British minister, to report upon the con-
| n Of Nf al
kans and to distribute relief, writes:
| Gwen all written gives no adequate idea
of the extent of the misery and desola-
ton among the refugees or the barbara
| ties perpetrated on both sides. The
British relief committee at Adrianople,
after careful investigation, have ascer-
tanned that 10,150 fugitive women and
children need relief at once. OF these
| LOO are Jews, and 5000 Turks.
A NERVOUS SITUATION.
| A London correspondent at Russian
headquarters telegraphs under date of
| the 23rd inst that it is a nervous time
for the Russians until their strength in
creases sufficiently to put them com
partively at ease. Any day blow may
fall and strain their resources to the ut
most The Turks are actively menac-
ing the Russian positions all around,
and by no means allow the Russians to
build an assurance that there will mo
hard fighting until the Grand Duke
Nicholas gives the signal to begin. The
defenders of Schipka Pass consist of
but twenty companies, consist
ing of relays of the Bulgar-
ian legion and from bat
tations of the ninth Russian division.
The second division has, therefore, been
diverted from its intended destination
before Plevna, and is marching On
Schipka Pass, one brigade being at Ga
brova to-day, and the other at Tirnova
In recent visit to the front before
Plevna, was surprised to find that SO
few reinforcements as yet had reached
the Russian troops holding it. They are
unquestionably 4inferior in numbers to
Osman Pasha's army. Compared with
before the battle there is but an addition
of the Roumanian and the sixteenth di-
vision, but to-day there are crossing the
Danube 5000 reserves to fill up the gaps
in the ninth corps On the other hand,
Prince Schackosky has marched his
brigade Of the Thirty-second infantry di-
vision back to his original position CON
fronting Osman Pasha. Accordingly
on the Plevna front, when the ninth
crops gets its complement, the Russians
will have two army corps, the fourth and
ninth. Including the forces Watching
Lovatz and Selvi, Iroughly estimate the
Russian force confronting Plevna at
from $4,000 to $4,000 men. There can
be no question of their anxious eager
ness to be allowed to fight again. In
deed, they do not smother their
murmurs at the delay which Il