CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 409, 20 August 1877, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

LATEST WAR NEWS. VIGOROUS PROSECUTION OF HOSTILITIES. [agent general's telegram.] London, August I<>The Russians have evacuated the Balkans with heavy loss. A second Danube bridge has been completed, and large reinforcements of Russians arc crossing. Rustchuk is being bombarded, and fighting is going on at different points without any very important results. Mohamed Ali and Sulieman Pasha are pushing on to effect a junction, and the Russians, who have been reinforced, are advancing their centre and left wing. An important battle is expected.

Frightful massacres have been committed by the Turks, without distinction of age or sex ; and the revolted towns and villages have been burned in every direction. The Russians are suffering from fever and dysentery. The Turks are healthy.

♦ (From the Press Agexcy.) London, August 16, 1.40 p.m. Tho two armies have met near Plevna. A great battle has been going on for some hours, and still continues, but the principal positions are unchanged. A quarter of a million Russians are now across the Danube. Bombay, August 18, 10.10. The Russian Imperial Guard has been called into active service, and all men capable of bearing arms hitherto exempt. The Gourks have gone to St. Potorsburgh to bring the Guard to the seat of war. Wellesley has returned to Bulgaria. There has been indecisive righting at Batoum.