THE WAR.
EUROPEAN GALOGRAMS; [Press Agency.] GREAT BATTLE AT THE SHIPKA PASS. THE RESULT INDECISIVE. Melbourne, August 24 4.40 pm. The following telegram has just been received here :— LonD3F, August 23. A great' battle is now b.ing waged nt the Shipka Pass,
the army ef Stiliemau • Pasha, and the Russians who have retreated from south of tW Balkans, and^are holding the pass. " % result is yet indecistve.7 s^ /,-. 7& JjONDON|AugUBt^2,4:.^. 7?irhe latest 3itussiaj*> official -dis^ $afoh says* that all &©• attacks toy* Ithe Turks on ?the Russians: At the; Russians havo maintained theirposition. They have been reiriforceds Fighting continues. ■' * . ■ The Turks haye suffered enormous: losses. The Russian loss has been reltaively slight. Many officers were killed. - A 'ilussian official dispatoh reports a victory at. Selvi. A- Turkish unofficial report says that Mehemet Ali has achieve^ -a brilliant victory, at Eski-D j uma.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 811, 28 August 1877, Page 2
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