ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 42, 18 February 1878, Page 4

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

The Daily Telegraph prints the following under date Constantinople, Jan. 20th :-— The agent of the English Belief Fond has just arrived here with a train full of refugees from Adricnople. These unhappy people have been in opeii coal trucks tbrea days. Many have perished from the cold weathor. Last night fifteen were found dead ia the trucks. The sufferings of ail ere described aa awful. Mothers are reported to hsva thrown away their living babies rather than see them die in their arms. As the train moved away from Adrianople, numbers of people tried to cling to the outside and framework of the carriages, and many attempted to ride on the buffor3. At one station, where hundreds of people bad congregated without food for two days, the men threatened the agent with violence if bread was not given* to them. Yesterday 15,000 women and children were out in the snow at CharJovi, Three trainß full are hourly expected to arrive at Constantinople. It is not not known where they will find shelter. The snow is seven inches deep, and still fulling. The cold is intense, and all that can be done is being effected by the mamigors of the relief fund, but many lives are being sacrificed. Baroness Burdett-Coutts, as the representative of the contributors to Turkish Relief Fund, bag received the following telegram from Mr Liyard, British Ambassador at Constantinople : — Fugitives are arriving by thousands. Nine trains are expected to-day (Saturday) from Adrianople, bringing 10,000 fugitives, mostly women and children, who will make the journey in open trucks during a heavy snow fall. A large number of other fugitives will arrive shortly. I have engaged a house near the station to receive the destitute, and provide for the distribution of food. 1200 sufferers were lodged end relieved to-day. Funds are urgently required. The Turkish Government is doing its best, but its action is almost paralysed by tbe overwhelming magnitude of the misery it has to deal with. A Times special from Griurgevo Bays the mortality amongat Turkish prisoners is fearful. The station at Fraieschite is becoming a terror to travellers between Bucharest and the Danube; and even if there is nothing worse than the ordinary typhus, the mortality as evinced by the numerous graves on the plains surrounding the prisoners' camp, justifies the appreheneion of travellers. I flaw Russian soldiers digging huge graves, and near them fifty Turkish corpses lying in confused heaps as they were emptied iron the dead carts. Their rugged balf-clad forms and the frost-bites -visible on their naked limbs gave evidence of the hardships they had suffered on the march from Nicopolis. A Vienna political correspondent from Athens has the following :— The Ministry does not intend at present to obey the popular warlike feeling. Important negotiations are pending between Greece and England, upon the issue of which depends whether Greece sball or not at an early date play an active part with and at the side of England."