SULIEMAN PASHA AND HIS ARMY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 268, 12 November 1877, Page 4

SULIEMAN PASHA AND HIS ARMY.

Suileman Pasha (saya the London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus), as he has been one of the most successful, so also is one of (he most remarkable men in the Turkish army. A correspondent of the Times describes him as a man in mid-life, tall and atrongly built, simple in all hie ways, and prompt, with a resolution that despises all routine. Hia tent consists of a simple piece of canvas stretched across two sticks, under which he crawls at night, and sleeps on the ground, and being once in leaves no room to spare for a shakedown for anybody else. Guards, sentries, orderlies, and all the pomp and circumstance of military rank are dispensed with, and his two or three aides de camp bivouac in like style near him. Hia two horses are picketed in front of his tent, with their saddles on their backs, and take their chance of forage with the rest of the cavalry, in the same way that their master expects no different treatment from the rest of the army. Still more significant was the extroardinary way in which in a few hours he transported the whole of his army from Adrianople to Karabunar. At the order " go " the army went with no further ado. The division massed rapidly oh the railway stations, and the men crowded- into every conceivable corner of the train, from the tender to the guard's van, each man with bis ammunition already in bis pauches, three days* biscuit ia his havresack, and his water bottle full, Train followed train in rapid succession, and as each arrived at its destination it shunted, and waited for the next. Then, aa the provisions arrived, men were brought down in thousands, and every man hoisted a sack of biecuhs on his back, and carried them to the pile where they were stowed. Without having waited for orders from at least four different departments, the order was given and it was carried out, and as regiment followed regiment into the camp at Karabunar, each bivouacked in its place, piled their arms, soaked their hard biscuits in the water, prostrated themselves before the great and only Allah, their God and friend, and lay down to sleep on the grass.