RUSSIAN ATROCITIFS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 85, 22 October 1877, Page 3

RUSSIAN ATROCITIFS.

The horrors of the Russian invasion deepen ftom day to day. and this, more than any military considerations, constitutcs'the worst gravity of the appearance of Cossack marauders south of the Balkans. The blind fanatics of Proslavism in tbis country aro indeed even now not ashamed to deny or extenua'e <he perpetration of atrocities by the Muscovite hordes and tbei" Buli/arinn auxiliaries, and .to pn'pn'ed to doubt the nccuracy of every proof which establishes the fearful character of the Slavonic " crusade." Rut the dispatches which inundate the columns of the British Press tell nothing which is not contained in the correspondence of the Continental journals of the highest reputation. To quote a single instance. The snecial correspondent of the Koelnischc Zeitung telearaphs from Sehtimla. under date July 11, and describes in the following terms the havnc which attends the march of the Muscovite revolutionists :— •• The whole way from Tirnova to Osman Bazir, over which «c passed for a considerable di.-tanee. is crowded with Tiirki-h fugitives. The distress among Turkish torn-hen. thus driven from their homes is ex'remely ereat. Most of the fuguiv.s saved nothing but their bare lives. All tell, ns that the Bulgari>ms fell on them by n'ght and set fire to and burned down their bouses aDd villages, and lhat the Russian's outraged in every case the Turkish women whom they could capture, and carried away with them tile younger and fandsbmer, after compelling them to assume Bulgarian or European dresses. The burnt down the following villages : — Batalc Discut, Sirsali, Kadan. , Jaidzi, Frenh, Ari, and Trembetsh." Such are the accounts which fill the journals ©f every country in Europe, and still wprs.e and, more revolting details are pouring in upon, the Turkish Government with every fresh advance of the destroyingbanditti of Cossack and Heyduck. In effect it is by tho aid of the desperate brigands of the more inaccessible pprtion of the Balkans, the mountaineers of the Czredb Goizi, the outlaws and felons who have taken to the hills after offences commitied it'i every portion of the lowland territories, that the Bussians have been •enabled to make such progress •in the mountain regions. But, it is affirmed, the Russian was willing to pay the Heyduck his hire, was willing to join him in robbing, outrage, and murder, and the native and foreign brigands have fraternised accordingly. From Constantinople •we learn that the Porte on July 14 addressed the following dispatch to its re* presentatives abroad :— " It w-i my duty to report to you fresh act* of revolting barbarity committed by (?ossacks, who massacred 30 of the Mussulman inhabitants without distinction' of age or sex. In the village of Bin Punar they cut off tho dresses of the women and girls at the waist, and then violated them in the presence of their relations ; the male inhabitants were made prisoners, and finally, to fill up the measure of these horrors, the barbarians, losing all tellings of bumanitv, cut off the h inds of a woman, and in derision placed her unfortunate child in tbo mutilated and bleeding arms. The Montenegrins, who mutilate I their prisoners and thus excited ihe indignation of Europe, always respected women and children, and it was reserved fo the Russians to present a spectacle of mon••strosities unknpwn by the least civilised nations. Some Cossacks, about sjven hours* march fiom Rimtchuk, camp across some Mussulmans who had abondonel their villages and were fleeing to the mountains, and massacred them without sparing the women and children. All these facts ara derived f.om telegram < , received, at the Sublime Porte from different sources."