LONDON.
Sunday. The troop ships - Crocodile, Malabar, and Euphrates have received orders to get ready to proceed to sea by Wednesday. A formidable railway strike has taken place m America. The. military were called into action andfiredaniongst the ' people, kiliing ten and wounding thirty.' The Russians besieging Widdin have taken Eesuka, and are now marching on Phillippopolis. They were repulsed with heavy losses at Plevera.4 A despatch from Miikhad Pashaj at Kars, states that on the 19th the Russians were attacked on their right wing and defeated With heavy losses, and were compelled to. fallback:.. ( It is believed Midhat Pasha, who is' now m London, will be recalled. " ' • " Herald's " special states that there was a panic at Adrianople and 'Stamboul when it was known that the Russians had crossed the Balkans without'opposition, Bulgarians everywhere welcoming the Russians; as their deliverers. < It is rumoured- that the English Go- \ vernment intend despatching -British troops to Gallipoli. : .*"' : .
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 80, 25 July 1877, Page 2
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