OSMAN PASHA’S SURRENDER.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1221, 1 February 1878, Page 3

OSMAN PASHA’S SURRENDER.

A correspondent at Plevna telegraphs the following concerning Osman Pasha’s reception by the Russians : —The Grand Duke Nicholas rode up to Osman’s carriage, and for some seconds the two chiefs gazed into each other’s faces without the utterance of a word. The Grand Duke stretched out his hand, and shook hands with Osman Pasha heartily, and said— ‘ I compliment you on your defence of Plevna. It is one of the most splendid military features in history.’ Osman smiled sadly, rose painfully to his feet in spite of his wound, said something which I could not. hear. He then reseated himself. The Russian officers all cried ‘Bravo, bravo,’repeatedly, and all saluted respectfully. There was not one among them who did not gaze on the hero of Plevna with the greatest admiration and sympathy. Prince Charles, of Roumania, who had arrived, rode up, and repeated unwittingly almost every word of the Grand Duke, and likewise shook hands with Osman, who again rose and bowed this time in grim silence. Osman Pasha wore a loose blue cloak with no apparent mark on it to designate rank, and a red fez. He is a large strongly built man, the lower part of his face covered with a short black beard without a streak of grey. He has a large Roman nose and black eyes. ‘lt is a grand face,’ exchimed Colonel Gaillard, the French military attache ; ‘ I was almost afraid of seeing him lest my expectation should be disappointed, but he more than fulfilled my ideas.’ ‘lt is the face of a great military chieftain,’ said young Skobeloff. ‘I am glad I have seen him. Osman Ghazi he is, and Osman the Victorious he will remain in spite of his surrender.’ ”

Later special telegrams to the “New York Herald” state that it is generally believed at Bucharest that Osman will be tried by a military Court of the highest jurisdiction for the slaughter of the wounded after the gr. at battle of July 31st, the fight before Gravitza redoubts of September 11th, and several other minor engagements. Discoveries made by the Russians since occupying the fortifications of Plevna, information gained from Turkish officers, and, above all, the absence of Russian prisoners, although several hundred had been captured, during all the engagements, leaves no reasonable doubt that the Turks under Osman Pasha had been guilty of deeds which will render his now illustrious name for ever infamous,