Horrors of War.

Otago Witness, Issue 2201, 7 May 1896, Page 52

Horrors of War.

A correspondent of The Times said that' the' road from Plevna to Teliche during the RussoTurkish war was rendered melancholy, by the perpetual recurrence of unburied bjdieß. "We grew oalloug, at last," he wrote; "so callous that a dead body touched us no more than a milestone might have done. Murder with violence awakened a languid interest. I do not know how I' can more clearly or more' terribly indicate the horrors of the journey than by telling; the simple truth about that one matter — that the sight of the body of any. poor wretch done to death by famine, or beaten to death by cruel stripes, or stabbed, or ehot, or stoned, awakened in the hearts, and minds of half a dozen Englishmen no more than a momentary sensation of pity or anger. We had grown accustomed to these things, and 1 emotion bad- grown tired, and would not be stirred by any one of them."

Mxny of these dead bodies were the bodies of Bulgarians slain by tbe Turks ; but the latter also had i suffered. in-, numerous instances, owing to the mortality amoiuttiko wemea uhl cbU&ca.. of. fugitives, ~

' The correspondent eosreely pused n miTft without' witnesiing* funeral, and the mourner*,, probably desiring to soreon- th«ir Moslem rites' ' from the eyes of Christians-, would suspend some fragment of cloth from the; lower branches o£ • trees, or even hold it np at arm's length*between the performers of the ceremony and ,the public high way.— From CasselTfc "Wsforj; , of the RuB»o-Turki6h War" for EflbcuMyi