THE SERVIAN-TURCO WAR.

Evening Star, Issue 4212, 26 August 1876, Page 4

THE SERVIAN-TURCO WAR.

The following items of news, relative to Seryia, taken from the lafeW files to hand, will Be read ] with interest '.— ._. The Montenegrins, with 20,000,, crossedat Casho* near Soutari Lake. The Turks have 150,000 regular and irregular troops. ; TKere is little excitement at Constantinople, and confidence of speedy victory. Polish journals speak of the concentration rif Russian troops in the Polish provinces. The Servian students in Germany have left for Belgrade. Fifteen thousand muskets have been ©mf ed to the Christian Albanians at Scutari to fight against Montenegro, but have been refused. /■., >

; With-the. vTpxks a number, of. Roman Catholics have been fighting.against the Servians, who are Greek Catholics. In the HerjßgOvinat the Reman Catholics; have left tfeetaanrgentaainp. /.' ■ The Servians crossed ."the? frontier and •ommenced hostilities near Nish. Tbey kare 60,00ft:r regular troops and 60;000 militia and volunteers, natives and strangers, commanded by Tcbernayeff, i a Russian general. ;V "The Grand Duke Constantino of Russia Mid the-King of' Greece are expected to arrive in Paris, .and .the: rumor runs that Ihey are coming to try to induce France to fake % nfore active part in the Eastern questeen. ,-, -vT ' •' •' -Z"~ The 'Political.Correspondence',publishes intelligence from Bosnia, announcing that •» telegram has been received there from the sultan ordering all Mussulmans between the sgea of seventeen and seyenty to. take up arms. •; ." . . . Servian accounts state that np to the present Servians have 'been everywhere victorious, and that' General Ranko Olimpics, far from being defeated, dates his despatches fronf Turkish territory. He is again said to have captured the Turkish entrenchments at-Belina, together with a flag and aeyeral '■":".'J^' The 'Gibraltar Guardian' says :—"Owinj to. the, instructions received frOm the Englisl Gibraltar is being plaoed in i state of complete defence.. Artillerymen arc everywhere "mounting guns."' Two vessels laden with are daily expected froii England* #nd , tlie absent on l§av<

have: been recalled., in a proclamation fc(*te'to«ffl?i», .encouraging them by the promise :that, of. the worst comes to the worst, and the lurk comes off victorious, the Russian army would-invade-the-coimtry, and for ever.- '-Christians disobeying the strihmons will be doomed by Holy Churca.on-eui.th and by God Almighty in Heaven. " Xj J Whihji Remain force of General-Tcher-juiyeffTQrneatilie flank of tHe Turkish at- Nish,; another detachment ...en' &&&$& T-Mks. ; Whetherthis detachment remains ia Turkish eampor las followed the maiu force, in. its marchjupon Sophia is unknown. . The i.'JLnrkish' "forces between Nish and Sophia are estimated at 50,000 men, whl&h is'-prc/bably a Bmaller 'fcrce than ..general Tchern.ayeff bring A weU-mformed correspondent of the

IWWF writes Germany Were $o turn against Eussja .certain revengeful politicians might hope to secure an iUiauce! against this "Country, .but Germany ■& aotlakely tpi'draw heir sword for an Enisjnr* *jl»6hul»oT l di Palmeraton said was a corpse he would not fight for again; The interestofc<&rinany demands, however, that the Sclavonic-movement shall-not result in the aggrandisement f *)f : any of' the great powers ,_ ; and- that any ; independent states on the Balkan Peninsula j|hatf7not J to' the position of t t-.!3f&ei movement of. troops toandirom Con-

stantinople is incessant. - We have here between twelve-and fifteen'battalions of the Redifs," and their force will in a few days be raised men. Riza Pacha has left for the Dardanelles,'taking with him a battery

of Krupp -guns, with which he is to arm the forts at the entrance of "the Hellespont. Hobart Pacha: has left Therapia, and will rjon take'the cQmmanA.of the fleet destined to visit the coasts -pi Thessaly, the Isles of the Archipelago, aud Crate. The- gallant English officer, his full confidence in the skill and valor of the native seamen, has ordered that no other European than the admiral himself,should be admitted on board his squadVon ;'the'very engineers in. charge of the machinery being Ottoman subjects and Mussulmans. J ' ''

.= ; Austrift is <arming. The officers of the Line Reserve and the Landwehr have been ordered to. complete "their War equipments without' delay.' It is expected that two eorpa d'armee wilt be immediately placed on a war footing.,^;,- . . The organisation of the Turkish reserve is far from complete, and, although its nominal fortee ia 300*000, not more than 100,000 reserve men could be brought into the field. The other regular forces at the disposal of the Sultan are, so far as can be ascertained

from the best sources, 80,000 infantry, 20,000 cavalry, 10,000 field artillery 12,000 gendarmes, horse and foot, which are the elite of of the army, and 3,000 engineers, or, say, 200,000 troop* capable of sustaining an engagement with European soldiers. Besides these there are.sqme.lOQ,ooo irregulars. The Russian journals welcome the outbreak of the Servo-Turkiah'war, but, in accordance with the orders of the Press authorities, use temperate language in dis-CHBsing-the prospects of the campaign. -They deprecate intervention, but declare that the war must not be allowed to degenerate into carnage. They declare*hat fius3ia desires no aggrandisement, but would countenance the formation' of Servian-and Montenegrin policies which would have to look to Prussia for support. praise-the;British nation £» (Jbrfetian;sympathy with the Rayah fciie but tauirtr.the British with introducing ( Bills for the prevention of cruelty to. animals to make up for its wan| jof. in ;'the t J&st. Upon the whole, the attitude of the Russian !P*«SS'jnay.be described as expectant and cohfideiit. According to intelligence recurved i'at Berlin, the remaining portion of Russian Black Sea nrvy is being made ready/ constantly arrive in Servia via Roumania and Russia.