War News In England
Edinburgh, April 9th.—A London correspondent says the army clothing factory at Pimlico is worked without intermission and numerous shifts are employed. There is a…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1877
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The War. London, June 26
The Turke have evacuated Saltezi, a town in Debruscha, on the right bank of the Danube. They retreated in good order upon Hersizo…
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IN discussing the probable result of another "war between France and Germany, a writer in "Blackwood' asks:—What would the German armies have to encounter in the…
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THE S. M. Herald,' says,—A well-known resident of Sydney writes on the 22nd May, from London:—"War has commenced. This fact your readers knew long ago; but…
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London, May, 18.-The 'Telegraph's' Pera despatch says the Russians are falling back from Kars. The Truks and Circassians are advancing on the extreme Muscovite…
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The British Mediterranean squadron has gone to Besika Bay. New official Turkish accounts state that the Russian advance guard is driven back…
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HOBART Pasha, the admiral of the Turkish fleet, has written the following letter to the 'Times':—"So at last the farce is played out; diplomacy retires on its laurels, and…
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Mukhla Pascha effected a junction between his troops and the garrison occupying Kars. The left wing of the Russian Army in Asia Minor recrossed the frontier…
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It is reported that the Russiaus have raised the seige of Houplate Pasha, and Governor (?) Kars is preparing for an attack by General…
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Special despatches confirm the reports of the atrocities committed by the Russians upon Turkish subjects. There are vague rumors about an alliance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cost of War
THE following statement respecting the loss of lives and money in the wars of the last twenty-five, years, 1852-77, appears in a contemporary, and is, perhaps, as near the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Russo-Turkish War
THE interest in this was increases more and more every day as the armies of Russia gradually approach the places which have marked the spots where they and the Turks…
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Advices state that a desperate Battle has been fought between the Turks and Russians near Nicopolis, lasting over two days, when the Turks gained a decisive victory. The…
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THE 'Morning Post' says there can be no mistaking the object of Russia on the Asiatic borders of Turkey. The design is to reduce her Asiatic provinces to dependencies of St…
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The Russians eyacuated their position on the South Balkans, on the 7th August, except Schalke Pass, and the Turks have re-ocupied Kegandk…
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OUR military sciontists are disenssing with much animation the pros and cons of the coming campaign in the East. Opinion leans rather towards forecesting failure for the…
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The correspondents of the 'London Times' and 'Daily News' report the wholesale butchery of the Christians by Turkish troups, in the South Balkans, instigated and aided…
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THE following account of the crossing of the Danube, and the fighting theuafter, is rontained in the "S. M. Horald" telegram of 9th August:—…
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Sulieman Pasha has not yet crossed the Balkans, but he passed Kinsarlik on the 19th instant. Russian officials despatches state the object…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. London, August 27
The address delivered at Plymouth, by Sir Stafford Northcote, again stated than England would observe a neutral policity, but was quite ready for war, if her interests were…
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