Now Russian Lost Inkermann.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

Now Russian Lost Inkermann.

WrTu legard to the Ciimcan War, Counfc Yit/theim, in lii.-j reminiscence s*,5 *, says that nothing was more erroneous than to think thai Napoleon had consented to pull the diust'.iuts out of Hid lire for England in the EaM,. On tlie conii.ny. lie out-witted the English and made them involuntarily sub-fiC-nienb to his aim 5 :. He also asserts that in icality the battle of Inkermann was only* lost by the talkativeness of the Emperor Nicholas The TUi^ians had laid their pLui- (o attack the allie? unaAvares— the En<_rli,?h iir.^t, thon the French, who were some distance from each other. The Emperor t'tld Count Mnn&ter Avhat was intended, the Count told the King of J'lii^-ia, and theie happened to be someone at' I'utsdam favourable to the English, who cut a copy cf .Minister's despatch to Lord Lo f hi-3. Loftu->, pereehing its importance, had Uie despatch telogra[)hed in cipher to London, \\ hence, atter being deciphered, it Y\a-> ini'ticdiatcly forwauled to Lord L'aulan. It was the iirst direct telegram, «o it A\as then taid, that had been sent from London to the Cominnncler-in-Chief of the Uiiti^h army in the Ciimea, and it arrived ]ust at the ri^'ht moment to enable Lord Raglan to make tho necessary dispositions and infoim Canroberb of the danger.