A. GALLANT EXPLOIT.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

A. GALLANT EXPLOIT.

Hobart Pasha was atOßustchuk, on the- Danube, when hostilities j Broke forth,- and it was for a time ( feared that he' would experience i some difficulty in getting out to sea, J by the mouths of the river, ■in hia ( yacht the Eethymol In" point of • fact, the enemy fired at<him, but ' j without striking hisi vessel. > The 't Rußßians were by that timo at ■! Galatz, farther down the streamy and t were kriown to be placing torpedoes \ ia) the channel. The Turkish Ad- f miral was advised to leave his yacht' t in (the Dan,ube and return to Oon- J stantinople overland; buthedeolared' c that he would rather blow np hjs { ship than deqert her. (He- accord- t ijagly made arrangements for run- J 4ing,,the yes,sel past' the Russian* j batteries in j;he manner : most likely, j to, ', escape , attention. As, night a,ppfbached on the ,20th pi April, he i startedonhisenterpiise, The Danube } was running' with a very rapi4,,cur- •, . rent, , ai|,d i tMB favoured the hazard- ; ous undertaking. All lights were < jinit out ; the engine-fires were so managed' as to t be f^e,e , ( from 'smoke; and in the' gathering , dusk tiie I.'1 .' Bethymo ( sped .down the ■ |. river.' were reached, < Kuss'ianswer'e seen, b'y.'theglim^ t nef" ! of tKe'^ldnterns they carried, ', A .locket^Wa's sent up'febm me'Eou- ': naniatt n sho4:ej others followed in" 1 ' jqUick T suocesBion; bugle's soknded a,nd 'drums beat; and the wofd of command' was heard passing 'alon^' ,tne i*ahkB.'' The presence of the' ytacht had been discovered, and the moment wa» critical. Hobart Pasha ran his vessel close in shore, so that 'the Eussian gunners were unable tp depress their pieces sufficiently fast to get a good aim. The Eethvmo went Quickly by, and the Admiral^ when- out' of reach of'ihe enemy,' ordered his crew io throw' a sh'eli intothe'ieiitre of the'Bussian camp. A'p^krentiyj Wk' greatest danger' was from' the torpedoes ; but either these had' not at that tiAe been l?id, or' tile vessel fortunately' avdided' &em.' l -j-Cassell^ Hißtory of ' ty-'Russo-Tairkish War. ' ' • "