Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-08-23
THE RUSSI0-TURKISH WAR.


EXCITING NEWS MAY BE EXPECTED SOON
Vienna dispatches of the Goth inst,
say that information has been received
in that city from a reliable source that
Suileman Pasha has succeeded in
EFFECTING A JUNCTION
with Mehemet Ali between Tjersarora
and Bedrova This places the Russians
in the face of a really formidable Turk
! ish army, and will render the utmost
! eXertiOns necessary on their part to
prevent the Turks from jeopardizing
their whole position in Bulgaria. The
Russians are pushing up their rein
/ fOrcements, and preparing energetically
for general onslaught on the Turkish
/ position. They believe that a decisive
victory over the united forces of Me
! hemet Ali and Suileman Pasha
WOULD PRACTICALLY END THE CAMPAIGN,
while defeat would entail results
scarcely less disastrous for themselves.
/ The Turks also are very active, and are
straining every nerve to be able to cope
| successfully with the large and well APP
pointed Russian force which is opposed
to them They have turned up almost
their last man, and have evidently made
up their minds to stake everything on
the issue of battle. 1t is not thought
probable that a general battle can be de-
! layed beyond Tuesday or Wednesday at
the furthest. The Turks are working
vigorously on
THE FORTIFICATIONS OF GALLIPOLI,
and they are already in a forward state
of preparation. One hundred heavy
| Krupp guns have been sent there from
Constantinople and large quantities of
provisions and military stores are being
| shipped there. The work is being kept
up night and day without intermission,
and the place will soon be in thorough
state of defense.
| The same correspondent also says
! that the Turkish ministers have declared
to the foreign ministers that the Porte
would not make exception to any
foreign power in regard to
THE PASSAGE OF THE DARDAEELLES.
| This is understood to refer to the rrl-
mored intention of England to send
Ships-of-war to the Dardanelles with q
view to prevent massacres of Christians
in case of a popular outbreak.
THE EMPEROR TO CONTINUE WITH THE
/ ARMY.
For the future the army and the i'm
perial headquarters will remain united,
which seems to imply that the emperor
will encourage the soldiers by his actual
presence on the battle field The en-
peror is pleasantly quartered in a good
house outside of the village, and seems
in excellent spirits. The air is pure in
contrast to that of Bella. The health of
the suite is much improved, but Gen.
Ignatieff is still ailing Prince Galitzin
has been obliged to leave for Caris-
bad.
A STREAM OF REINFORCEMENTS
is flowing now steadily through Rou
mania. 1t is expected that both the
guard and grenadier corps will be in
Bulgaria by the first week in Septem-
Der. The staff here calculate that $780,
600 men are now actually on the march
to reinforce the army.
PLEvNA
1t is said the Russians intend to
blockade Plevna, but will not attempt
to take it by assault.
Osman Pasha's supplies are beginning
to fail.
MORE RUSSIAN REINFORCEMENTS ASKED.
At the special request of the Grand
Duke Nicholas the mobilization of two
more divisions of grenadiers and one
cavalry division has been ordered.
A London dispatch of Monday Aug.
20, gives an account of another Russian
disaster in Asia On Saturday Russians
numbering $4,000 infantry, ten regi-
ments of cavalry, and 10 guns, attack
, ed Mukhtar Pasha along the whole line
, extending from Magarajikh to Yakinlar.
The cannonade began at seven in the
morning and at six in the evening the
Russians retreated in good order to
their encampment, pursued by the
Turks. The Turks lost 165 killed and
wounded, and the Russians 1000.
Cablegrams from London, of August
18th say: 1t is reported that Prince
!. Hassan, in Dobrudscha, is marching
rapidly with his Egyptian troops with
the object of cutting off the communi-
cations of the Russians with Bessarabia.
simultaneously eight Turkish steamers
have received orders to disembark then
forces north of the Danube mouths with
the same object.
Montenegrin outposts report that a
) Turkish army of twelve battalions of
regulars and several thousand irregulars
have begun a movement on Drobriak
The Montenegrin force, utterly made
quate to oppose them, will fall back for
t the= protection of the inhabitants until
I reinforcementS arrive.
PREPARATIONS FOR A LONG WAR
Every detail of preparations shows
that the Russians have made up their
: minds for a long war, and are preparing
5 great deposits of firewood. The Rou-
g manian government is also asking ten