, 1877-10-05
LILLE w Ak.
Comments on the Recent
Army Changes in Asia
Minor.
The Result Of Wednesdays
Fight Still Involved
III Doubt.
Turkish kilograms Claim a De-
cisivc Victory for Mukh-
tar Pasha.
Fearful Effect Of the Russian
Bonbardnent Upon
Rustchuk.
Nearly All tho Houses In tho
Place Destroyed BY
Shells.
Tho Emperor William Reads the
Porte d Lesson on HUI
manity.
He Uses No Threats, but Leaves
Turkey to Draw Her Own
Inference.
Montenegro Appeals to. the Gear for g
Fair Show in tho Final
Settlement.
MICHAEL.
He Uses No Threats, but Leaves
Turkey to Draw Her Own
Inference.
Montenegro Appeals to: the Gear for q
Fair Show in tho Final
Settlement.
MICHAEL,
HIS CrEItAT1UE,9

HlH opEnAT1uE.s
(Br Cnbft to The Chicago Tribunal
LONDON OFT1cE OF The CHICAGO TRIBUNE,
6 GPAIonAvE PLACE, STRAND, Oct s-4 a. H.
Despite the almost winter weather, tl,o
Russiana In Armenia hare renewed tho often.
sire, md, according to their own aocounts,
have directed al attaok upon tho entire front
presented by Mukhtar Pasha. For somc
time rcinfoTcomonts haTo poured into
tho camps near Alo1antlropole, aud
rurnor has Axed their number et
no fewcr than 10000 men. In
or'lcr to strengthen himself. Grand Duke
Michael had, it is reported, drawn upon tho
soldiora commanded by Gen. Terguknssotf,
leaving lin only with body Of troops
Judged sufficient to check tho incslrsions Of
1sinael Pasha, who, aftor the rolief of Daya.
ztd by tho the gallant Arnenian, boldly
crossed tho frontier md kept up eeries of
akir1nishes between tho mountain boundary
md Igdyr.
1t WIS cortainly sound policy to weaken
Tergukassod, since brnael, with the forco lo
commands, could not mako much why, In
llct SERIOUS damage, or assail tho hluscoyito
communication. Tho fortrcas OF A1oxan-
dropol, built malnly Of materials purchased
In Turkish Armenia, Is 80 strong support
to The principnl nrmy detachment fronting
Mount Arrarnt that the worst consequences
Of dofeas would bo avorted by It's protecting
influence.
stNoE THE PLAN or rNvAsloN COLLAPSED
and siego of KnsB WIS rnised,
Mukhta poaba has gradually de-
veloped front running In q
limo which Ia, roughly speaking, from a point
11ear tho supporting fortross east and west,
facing the nussian host, which apparently
occupied moro concentrated bnt uear-
" parallel line about Ku1rudaro, on
tho road from KarB to Alexandra
pic. Tho Ottomans wero 1angcd
on rolling country tending towards tho
AEpachai, plentiful tributary Of the Ami,
mud forming tho tEoutior botwecn Russian
md Turkish Armenia. BY extending his
right TO Mziltpo, k1ukhtar approached the
river, and, "a tho onomy could operate with
facility On either bank or hill the
position seemed open TO onset from
tho rear. It Is reported that Tuesday
Gen. Meliko1, under direction Of the Grand
Duke Michael, made sesious attaek on
tho Turkish lines at Ghazl. ..Mukhtar
seems to havo been surprised. His intelli-
gence department was ,nisinformed by its
spies, aud the Russian assault was delivered
al point where 1t waa not expected The
Ottoman army, though apparently at frat
taken aback, seems to haye held firmly a
position abort distance In tho fear of It's
advanced guards, and,
TUESDAY EVENING,
made some oonnter-attacks, with tho object
OF recovering the ground lost early In the
day. Whom the sun wont down no decisive
result had been arrived ut,
Kilograms from Constantinople aver that
victory inclined towards the Turkish siac,
but even these accounts acknowledge that
tho Ottoman soldiery had failed to regain
the hills 1t held when first attacked by tho
troops Of Gen. Melikoif. Tile Russian YER
sion Of the story tells that tho Muscovite
army bivouacked on Tho fold OF battle, aud
that renewal Of the action was expected
the following day.