, 1877-10-04

ASRat3 RkA oA45 LttG t@iht <4sN A1A@0hAS{ %A wiz
1emagogucs will bo for.ul on TIC Democratic
sida, aud cits reraz.
ELEvENTH.HouR STRATEGY.
Tho military capacity Of tho Turkish OIL
ccra has been fscquoutly called itl question
during tho present war, md there Is ceFtnfnly
sufficient testtmony to show that somc, like
HuIk1MAN Pasl,a, have wasted tho lves of
their soldiers to no purpose that otheIs.
liko MunnTAa rasha, lava rocklossly dis
otcyed orders aud that otllors, liko OsMAN
Paxha, who, II SUCCESS In o criterion, ia tho
best officer III tho Turkish army, lavo shown
an inability to improve or follow TIP sue-
tess. 1ncapacity, however, Ii not confined
to tho Turks. 1t they havo failed 10 improve
their opportunities, It hha buou offset by cor
responding fatluros Oh tho lsusslan sido Tho
opening of tho Russian campaign was un-
usually brilliant. They crossed tho Da1r.,}'o,
seized upon tho strategic points OF Nikopolfs,
Sistoya, Tirnovn, GRbroya, tho ahirka Pass,
mud tho strungholtls Of Eska-sagra aud Ke
Kaulik in Rou1nalin, md established their tina
In a systematic and aoldierlY mannor, and
there they rcsted. Tho whole world looked
upon 4eu. GounKo's magnificent dash across
tho 1'alknns as tho forcrunncr Of a speedy
occupation Of Adrianoplo by tho triumphant
Russian armies, but tho positions secured
were not improved. lilo mon wero p1nced
upon tho board admirably, but they did not
inoyo. Tho same inpatient result awnited
t!,eir movements In Armenia. They opened
their campaign brilliantly. Thoy invested
Kars, surrendered Datoun,, captured Erivan
ami Da]axld, aud their flying columns came
within sig4t Ut tho 41omcs md minarots OF
Erzeroum. Then tllcro was q halt in tho asl.
vance. Tho strategic positions were se-
cured. but they weEa not improved. aud
MuRurAn Pasha pus},rd their thin antl wide
ly-scattered columns back to thoir very
frontier, which meanwhile waa In blaze Of
inAu,rcction. Six months havo elapsed, and
thoy have not won solid victory In Europe
md AsiA. Their nr1nioH are IN thu limo Of
Tho Dauubo In Europe and OFT the Circassian
frontier IN Asin, and thuro they were months
ago.
There nro NOT wanting mauy Indications
that tho Russians themselves begin to appro-
sdate these sai1ares, and that they are now
OF tho wnr. Tho nussian people themselves
a1o beginning to doubt whether Grand
Dukes nso likely to be arat-ctass military
olllceru merely becauso they aro Grand
Dukes, and to Huggest that 1t might DO bettar
for these Grand Dukes to havo some OK
perienced mud reliablo advisers with them,
o. tho German Crown Princes had In tho
Franco-Gormau war. Or what avail IL such
gallant hero NJ akouELEYp, tho most brill
iaut aud dashing soldier Hiuco Muna7, If ho
is to be left in tho Pleyna redoubts without
roinforccments, owing to o slow going Grand
Duke? OF what ,sso IL that brilliant DaIkan
raider, uon. 0ouuEo, II ho is 10 bo isft a1ouo
on tho other sida of the nlountains iu hos
Tile territory, wl.lo whole Turkish army
corps gathers around tia lew regiments Of
cavalry far awny from tholr base2 Ono Of
tho most remarkable instances Of this
eloYenth.Aour strategY Is to 10 found in
tho operations around the fatal rutloubts
OF Pleyna. Tho Russians frat attacked
| 1t Inst Juue. With astonishing rashncss they
aasailel 1t from tho open ilsld, exposing
their massel columns IN tho terrible Aso Of
| tho Turks from behind almost impreguablo
wAlls. Over and over sgaln tho assault was
made. uutii tho attaching army WIS uearly
ttacin,atod md Tell back, shattered and
crushed, to tho line Of tho Danube. Tt,rkisl,
iucapaclty gayo them time to rocuperato
somewhat. lieinforcemouta were hurried
forward from i&ussia 10 mako good the
thousands thoy had lost. Again tie attempt
has been undo to tako the fortress by assault,
and thousands moro hare been slain. Tam.
porary advantages gained BY tho horoism OF
such olhears ~ 6zoBELzrs hays been lost bo-
cause the titled officers of the royal house,
hold have not improved them. In the first
battle Of plevnn, the Russians lost between
! S,OOO and 200 men. III the second assar1,
the Russiaus and Aoumauians haso a.
ready lost twico ~ many, and
tho end H not yet. 1u thi4
emergency, after four months oi
usslesa operations against Plsvna, after sac
| riaclng nearly $4,000 lives. It occurs 10 til.
Grand Duke to send for Gen. TonIzDEx, the
great engineer, 10 that ha may explain wh,
Grand Dukes cauuo& take PIsyna, md he ex
plains it by telling them that P!ovna can oni,
ha taken by regular siege operations. aIean
! while, u II to accommodate OsMAA PaAht
and euahlo him To staud a siege, the Gsant
Dukes haye allowed reinforcements Of ovel
10000 men, with large amounts Of whr ma
tonal and with an immense wagon train O.
provisions, to cutter Pisvnal But why was no
Gen. TopLkpzx called before any assault wa,
made at all3 Falling IN that, Why was h
| not called hefora tlla second failute VA