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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3909, 8 May 1877, Page 3

The Dobmdscha, which, as the last telegrams tell us, the Russians are about to invade, is the low-lying alluvial country in the delta of the Danube. It is one of the richest tracts of country in the world, and, at the same time, one of the most unwholesome. The march through it was almost fatal to Diebitchc's army in 1828 ; and, no doubt, will tell heavily on the invading Muscovites in 1877. Kars is again besieged, but without the English commanders of its garrison, it will hardly, we imagine, repeat the heroic story of 1855. Events seem to be tending in the direction which we anticipated they would take some time ago. The Russian attack is being directed largely, if not chiefly, on Asia Minor. The acquisition of fresh territory there would meet with no opposition on the part of Germany. Indeed it would work in with Prussia's traditional policy since the days of Stein and Scharnhorst, which has always been the making of Russia into an Eastern Power. Any conquests she may make in Europe we shall see, most likely, handed over to Roumania with its Hohenzollern Prince.