ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 3400, 18 June 1877, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

[Per Zealandia.] The Russian attacking force which captured Ardahan numbered 8,000, besides several thousands in front of the town. During the Turkish flight the Russian cavalry inflicted a loss of 700 ou the enemy. A force of 15,000 Bashi Bazouks and Kurds have moved northward from Lake Van fco join the Turkish forces at Korakalisa. Russian advance iv Asia is delayed by the difficulty of procuring provisions in Armenia. In the attack on Batoum, where the Turks defeated the Russians with a loss of 4,000 men, the Turks were entrenched on the heights defending the town, with their fleet outside. As the Russians advanced to the attack the Turks mowed them down in hundreds by a well directed fire of cannon and musketry. A sortie bj the Turks, under cover of a thick forest, outflanked the Russians and inflicted ? serious defeat. The courage of the Bashi Bazouks was highly extolled. The Russians did not withdraw til! midnight, and lost several cannon. A Russian war steamer which had run the gauntlet from Sebastopol endeavoured to place a torpedo under a Turkish frigate off Batoum. The torpedo failed to ex plode, and the vessel was driven off. Admiral Hassan Pasha, with six ironclads, bombarded Sukhum ICaleh and landed a body of troops ; the natives of Alvisia fraternised with them and drove the Russians out. 10,000 of the population of Alvisia united with the Turks, The defeat of the Russians below Reui was a reconnoittenng force in boats. The Turks waited till they came within easy range, and then opened a most destructive fire. The Russians sank torpedos opposite Matauhin and Galatz to harass the Turkish, gunboats, and constructed a battery of heavy guns at Ghiatic at the mouth of the Danube. The Turks massed a large body of cavalry opposite Galatz.