CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 124, 25 September 1877, Page 3

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

[Reuters Telegrams, Per

Press Agency.]

Bombay, September 16

Russian official despatches says that the Turks unsuccessfully attacked Gravitza.

Heavy cannonading took place on September 15 at Plevna.

During the late bombardment, the Russian loss was four hundred officers and three thousand men killed ; total killed and wounded, twelve thousand, Tbe Roumanians have lost three hundred. Turkish official despatches of September 11 says that the. Russians evacuated Tirnova to reinforce Biela.

Sulieman Pasha reports on September 15 that the destructive cannonade on the Russian position at Troyan (on the Lovatz-Plevna road) continues.

Mehemet AH on September 15, defeated tbe Twelfth Russian Corps with great loss, and pursued them to Banitzka (about 10 miles from Biela). Colonel Baker with the Cavalry is operating successfully.

Bombay, September 19

A Turkish official despatch says that the Nicholas redoubt at Plevna was abondoned from motives of strategy. The Russian assult was repulsed with enormous loss.

The rumors of armistice and mediation are semi-officially denied. Sydney, September 21. The Herald's special, dated September 15, says:—

The Russians made a general assault upon the Turkish position at Plevna on Tuesday, the Czar's fete day. The storming columns attacked the Northern and Southern faces of the great Gravitza redoubt. The three divisions attempted to take the Turkish trenches, protecting Plevna, whilst General Skobeloff was operating against the redoubts, barring the entrance to Plevna by the Sophia road. The stormers everywhere advanced gallantly, but having no shelter withered away under the deadly rifle fire from the Turks, and the survivors were compelled to retire. Reinforcements shared the same fate, meeting failure and disaster everywhere. The Emperor returned to his head quarters at Porodin disappointed. During the twilight, the assault was renewed, and within an hour the Gravitza redoubt and throe others on the Sophia road Averc in possession of the Russians. On Wednesday the Turks made six fierce attacks upon the Russian left. In the last they re-captured the three redoubts, reinforcements having reached General Skobeloff too late. The carnage on Tuesday and Wednesday was tremendous. Regular siege operations are; being carried on.

A rear attack by Mehemet Ali and Sulieirmn Pasha is feared. The Russian Imperial Guard is expected at Plevna in a fortnight.