The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TEE WAR IN THE EAST.

Lieut.. Gen. Mehemet Ali telegraphs from
Shunla accounts of several minor affairs, all
tending to show that the Turks are beginning
to oppose Russian advances on Adrianople.
It is telegraphed from Cravoura, near Balzig,
that the Turks are massacring the Christians
without mercy. A dispatch to the Greek Am
bassador at Constantinople asks for prompt as
sistance, as otherwise not man will be left.
An English war-sloop, with Austrian steamers,
left Immediately to receive the fugitives.
Ahmed Eyoub Pasha, the Turkish commander
in Bulgaria, has expelled all newspaper CORE
spondents, and even English and French mill
tary attaches, from his camp.
Russia has dispatched 80, O0Omen to reinforce
the army in Asia.
So far as the dispatches Indicate this is the
present situation of the hostile armies in Eu-
rope: The Turkish garrisons are in Silistria,
Rustchuk, Varna and Shumla the first two are
invested by the Russians, who are also within
SO short distance of Varna that non-com-
batants are getting away as fast as they
can. The Russians have not made any formid-
able movement upon Shumla, whence troops
are being sent down to intercept the Russians
on the road to Adrianople, the crossing of the
Balkans having been easily effected from Tir-
nova, Balkan base. Schipka pass, held only
by garrison of sixty Turks, furnished no re-
hinder of Thermopylae, and through it's easily.
obtained defle the Russians are being hurled
upon the road to Adrianople.
ID n
eminent has called out the reserve Of the
Landwehr.
A dispatch from Adrianople admits that SUI
lehman Pasha has been defeated, with the loss
of ten guns, and that the remains of his army
are retreating to that place.
The Russians in Roumelia destroyed six
bridges on the line Of railway between Philip
popolis and Ianboli, and the railroad people had
to run their rolling-stock off to Constantinople
to save it from the Cossacks.
A London dispatch says "The Russians
have completed their line around Rustchuk,
which has been advanced in some places near
enough for them to throw shells as. far as the
inner line of Notifications, but the actual siege
has not yet begun. The Montenegrins have
blown up the outworks of Nicsics They are
now bombarding the fortress from all Sides"
1t is now positively settled says London
dispatch, that when the Russians reach Adrian
ople the Sultan and Government will go to
Broussa, on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus.
A dispatch from Cettinje says: "The bonn
bardment of Nicsics Is continuous. The Mon
tenegrin chief Vicotics has destroyed two more
blockhouses. Several houses in Nicsics are ON
fire.
An important engagement was fought near
Rustchuk on Sunday, the 29th Of July, result
ing in the defeat of the Turks, with the loss OF
thirty guns, ten standards, and 5000 men.
A Vienna dispatch says: "Mehemet Ali in
tends to attack the Russians in the rear by way
of Tirnova whittier he began moving the main
body of his troops on Saturday. Report places
the strength of his army at $4,000 or $4,000
men. This counter attack will be watched
with great interest, but it may give the Rus
slams the opportunity for the great battle that
they claim to be seeking"