The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-01-24
Foreign Summary

The London Times correspondent, who
had gone to Guirgevo to try and cross the
Danube into Bulgaria, describes the mortal
ity among the Turkish prisoners at Fratesh-
ii as fearful, and the station has become
terror to travellers. The graves are numer-
Gus in the plain surrounding the prisoners
camp. The Russian soldiers were digging
huge pits, and fifty corpses were lying in
confused heaps, just as they had been
emptied from the dead wagons. Their rag
ged, half-clad bodies and the frost bites visi-
BILE on their limbs gave evidence OF the hard
ships they had suffered in the dreadful march
from Metropolis. Advices from Adrianople
dated on Friday report the Russian scouts
in sight and the Turks rctreating towards
Constantinople, with their arms and bag
grge. The cid seraglio is burning, the Mus
selmans have fled, and the Greek patriarchs
and Rabbi maintain order. No news from
Suleiman Pasha had been received at Con-
stantinople ON Friday. The Bulgarians are
said to have massacred the inhabitants OF
Gueanick and Tehrekeli, near Kezaulik.
Adrianople has probably been abandoned
by the Turks in compliance with the de-
mands of the Grand Duke, who wishes to
make it the scene of the negotiations for
peace, as it was on September IA, 1929, when
Russia obtained the restoration of the Dan
uban principalities. The p nth and from
its mouth the Danube were made the divid-
ing line of the two countries. Russia OBJ
talned the privilege of trading with all parts
of Turkey, the navigation of the Danube,
| the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, and
| the passage of the Dardanelles, upon the
same terms as the most favored nations, be-
sides a full indemnity for war expenses.
The negotiation for peace has already
commenced. The Turkish negotiators are
instructed, it is said, to offer to make Bate-
| UNI free port, and cede territory as far as
Kars and Erzeroum. They may also pro-
pose the following programme for the dis
cussion of European Congress: The Bal.
| kans to be considered the southern limit of
Bulgaria; Romania to be independent, and
the Dardanelles to be open to men-of-war
Of all nations. The settlement of the Ser
| Wan and Montenegrin boundaries is to be
! deferred for the present. Russia has de-
handed that Adrianople be included in Bull
garia, the cession of Batoum, and that the
Dardanelles be open to Russian and Turks h
vessels only.
The order Of the Turkish Government
forcing the non-combatants of Adrianople to
leave their homes has entailed frightful mis-
cries upon the poor refugees. Mr.. Master,
Agent Of the English Relief Fund, arrived
at Contstantinople on Sunday with train
full OF these unhappy people. They had
| been three days in open cattle trucks. On
Saturday night fifteen were found dead in
the trucks. The sufferings OF all are des-
| cribed as awful. Mothers are reported in
/ theirfrenzy to have thrown away living ba
bies rather than see them die in their arms.
Three other trains were hourly expected to
arrive. There are also fifteen thousand ref
ugees out in the snow, several inches deep,
and the snow is still falling. All is being
done that can be by the managers of the
Relief Fund, but Constantinople is already
crowded to overlooking, and it will be diff
cult to give shelter to the thousands yet to
arrive. The depopulating Of Adrianople
proves to have been entirely unnecessary,
as it was abandoned without any battle or
attempt to defend it.
The opinion prevails in Constantinope
that in consequence of the threatening as
peel of internal affairs the Porte will be
compelled to purchase peace at any price.
Three hundred thousand refugees are flee
ing to Constantinople. All the forces that
can be spared are being hurried to the city.
1t has been decided that the Sultan and the
Government will leave the city as soon as
| the RUSSIANS reach Tchatalnia, twenty-five
miles distant.
The Seryian troops have captured Pristi-
ma and reoceupied Kershpmli. after an en-
ga cement in which the Turks lost 400 killed
and wounded, and $50 prisoners.