LATEST WAR NEWS.

Waikato Times, Issue 837, 30 October 1877, Page 2

LATEST WAR NEWS.

HUTItATrON OF THE WOUIfDEO. (Prom the " dome Bkwm v ) ;■•' i THEfollowing accounts areforwarded by the corresppndenjt.of ths / Times' with tb.e Russian army •—.« An officer told me of sne case he had seen of a f wbunded/MnfenlinaQ witjr V smashed thigh lying on the ground. ' When the v Russians came ;! to ' givfr him help Jie writhed his body; in a position, then, with gnashing! 'teeth and gVih like a savage animal/ fired antlwoun 7 led an *pra lg forward and transfixed with their lances,* but the same savage expression of perfect rage and'hatred remained 'on' fece '/ after death. His lip's wer e drawn f Da 9^:; ifX&Sm his ,his ? face , ;-• wrfnkled, his eyes, though dulled, yet wearing an expression of ferocity. ;But the dead killed: ih ( 'battle* have " often placid faces, for the . warrior's mind has turned to softer ■ thoughts before nature fixed the last expression. : ° ■ Presently, ,>we are ibyi' \ men carrying downwards on a - stretcher the headless body of an officejr, and it begins to'be told that this is not a solitary example, ,oa,, the top of the pass the whole:truth; is:told. The Tuk, that 'gentleman' of English ■ ' regularly enrolled in tie army of the Sultan, well dresseaV and welk ,Y fed on the savings of the Bulgarians and on English money—This crea-,.' ; ture, led by regular, officers, jias' *' , mutilated every Russian soldier that tell into his hands, dead dr. alive. A young officer of tirailleurs' cries J Is that the Euglish correspondent V •Then turning to me says, 'Have 'you seen the heaps of heads f ;When '.;• lanswered 'No,' he adds bitterly, ' Ahjl you had better/see what your 'friends' have done!' 'lnstantly^ a' jj * staff jofflcer reproves him, and apologises taine, but adds, 'You cannot tell how bitterly we feel itj and all -the: bfficers think that this* war/ woulpnever have been, that' Bui- *'-.- fgaria; would have been'free, but fbr : , English to these people/ We go on and examine batteries and gunsy bui'with absent niinclg, dwelling on the 'heap of headk' • Alnd ; what of;; the bodies ? > has the same question, 'Have you seen the decapitated and mutilated ~ bodies of the wounded? To the demand for proof that : ii was-'the/ wounded, the living ; who were so treated the answer is always, . ' 'You shall judge for yburself.' On, the way along the >pqsition£ looking ■>■ down to the right from th!e;rpadj there, heaped round a /telegraph cpost on the green sward, are the heads that had thought and planned and:hoped and feared but yesterday,, perhaps this morning, but they looked small and shrunken, probably frpm loss of all blood, and the countenances tell no tale, as far as I could see in a hurried, horrified examination.',.

ATROCITIES ATTBrBIITED TO THE -.. i.} RUSSIANS. ' /■' « Recent .despatches: from, Saghra bring news 'bf a perfecfcjy ' horrible character respecting, the atrocities committed by the Vi '.*■ wpe jq possession. Of # .-./' -'; ... ~ _ -•;; - „ V'*,vi?.. . —r ■ ' -■ • , ■"■"■

V qiiietthe fears the witb| promises, and'to take-from themj all means of defence or escape.; This l 'being' done, the military! ■\ authorities brough tout day.; by day! a baton of a hundred of these betrayed people and deliberately murdered them without mercy.! Th,us. during the eleven dajs > oiy the occupation',, eleven hundred unoffeu- 1 dins Mussulmans' were .barbarously l slaughtered. * Besides ■ every women and grown girl of the M us- ! 'sulman faith was outraged with, unspeakable brutality. . ,4,3 the Turks! masters of Eski Sagbra, jtjsofte statements —-which are posi-; tively' made—can and' will be' offici-= 'ally Substantiated. '-' ''" ;; . ;