Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-11-17 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SHOCKING STATE OF THE TURKISH WOUNDED.  The Times special Te;;;;;;;:lent at the headquarters, Army of Bulgaria, has the following, under date Bacot, Nov. 4th: On the 2nd the day opened with a gloomy, drizzlin^ rain, which seen rendered the roads a mass of thick, slippery mud, beneath which was a bard stratum o clay as smooth as ice; consequently, locomotion for man or oeast was exceedingly difficult. About nine am. the occasional cannon-shots were succeeded by regular salvos of art"lery, commencing on the Russian right near Gravitza, and running rapidly along the line to the Lovatz road, the reports succeeding each other in a rattling way, as though the guns had been fired by electricity. Between these salvos musketry firing was heard, varying in rapidity from the dropping shots of picket firing to regular volleys. The effect was electrical upon the imprisoned correspondents, forbidden to mount the adjacent hilltops whence the firing proceeded, and where a view could be had of the scene of action. I thought Osman Pasha was coming out at last, and the interest was intensified by the fact that from the direction of the firing he might be heading this way. The Grand Duke was on the positions somewhere, and there was no one here to grant permission; therefore, I was compelled to remain in the dark as to what was going on until two p.m., when the salvos of artillery ceased and the occasional firing succeeded. Soon afterwards I met the Japanese military attaché, who had been out at the front, and learnt from his that General Todleben had ordered these outbursts to alarm and annoy the Plevna garrison and prevent it from obtaining rest by these feigned attacks ordemonstrations. About noon the mist disappeared and the sun came out bright and warm. Late in the afternoon several hundreds of Turkish wounded came through this village en rotste to the Russian hospitals in the rear. This train presented a strong contrast to the fate of the Russian wounded at the first attack on Tells, not one of whom was received in the hospitals in the Turkish lines. All those left on the field were murdered by the Turks. The barbarity of the Moslems is not confined to their treatment of the Russian wounded; they do not behave much better to their own. Four thousand five hundred wounded from Plevna passed through the English Ambulance at Orchanie and received their first dressings at that place. lam informed by the English surgeons captured at Telis, who belonged to this ambulance, that the wounds were full of maggots and the men covered with vermin. Some of them had been lying wounded for weeks before being sent to Orchanie, without bandage., all the cloth in Plevna having already been used up. Yet when the Entellsh ambulance proposed to enter Plevna with a large quantity of bandages and other hospital stores Osman Pasha refused them permission to send in the supplies. An Irish surgeon, named Ryan, in the Turkish service, used to employ himself in leading the troops when not otherwise occupied, and Osman Pasha declared "that was the kind of doctor he wanted, and he did not see the use of any other." In consequence of the refusal of Osman Pasha, the English surgeons were compelled to establish their ambulance at Orchanie, two days' ride from Plevna.