EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 1, 6 October 1877, Page 2

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

r'rom tho latest Coioniai Pape;.,.) Si NO A PORK, August 14. Sulieman Pasha has takrn the offensive snd crossed the Balkans. There is much uickueai in ihs Russiso army. LONDON, August 15. I.'i'i «„,.. „f Mahomed is marching towards Sulieman Pasha, whose cawilrf u beyond the Bnlksns, ' I ""'"•ml Mrhinii, the Ru i«q con- I nmndcr in Asia, has been reinforced n*A 1,., resumed offensive operatic-d, l»woli "I Its Terguksso I A,,., Li 16 rho two armies, n inndw,|Lluiuaifi i 'i. in. ; uvsi I'ltvm.

A btml battle itiil 1 nit.i. . - lii' Wjue £ not \el known The oilier puuv.ip.il pu .t:ou; ai>: un Changed. A quarter of a mitliou Russians are across the Danube. Lord Beaconslield and Lord LVrby remain in town during autuin Mukhtar Pasha remain on the defensive. The Russians have evacuated Kiesteudji. August 19. The Russian cavalrv regiments, with thirty-five thousand infantry, and 110 £iins, attacked Hukhtar Pasha's armv yesterday near Kara. They fought all day. The Russians were eventually compelled to fall back, with a loss of 1,200 men. The Turks loss was 100. The Russians have re-occupied Kiestendji. August 20. Suleiman Pasha, after occupying Eleta marched on Tirnova, and attacked the Russian "position there. A sanguinary engagement ensued. Teleg&ms through Turkish channels state tfiat the Russians suffered a decisive defeat The news await 1 confirmation. The Russians hold strongly to the Shipka Pass. .Suleiman Pasha ami the Turks, in muking a reconuaisance near the Jenekoi Pass, where the Russians are strongly intrenched, were, according to a Russian official despatch, repulsed. The Nile has beeu stationary for four days. The level is fourteen feet below the average lor tiie past three years. August 21. The Russians have abandoned the town of Shipka, which is now occupied by the army of Sulieman Pasha. The Porte is concentrating fifty thjusand militia in Bulgiria, as an army reserve. Colonel Baker commands the cavalry. Bombay, August 19. Sulieman Pasha, with his army, is at Eleti, north of the Balkans The to.vu ...i Salomes id .11 a state of siege. The Rissian town of P jti in the Caucasus, has been deserted. Hobart Pasha, with the Turkish fleet, is'at Slnopu. Turkey is rapidly increasing the strength ol her ar.wy August 20 Skirmishes have taken place in the ".'1 inity of Rustehuk. Toe Turkish o'.ij-jiai report states that a detachment ft .m ithe garrison repulsed the Russians. The Turkish force is near tho DrcbrudBchaV Tne Russians are advancing against them. o{rcaßsian immigration to Turkey is increasing. A Russian o'"fi 'ial dispatch admits that a Russian reconaaisanee was repulsed at CUruan Bazar. The Turks, under Rain-vim, carried the- advanced Russian positions at Batoum. Unofficial Russian accounts confirm the attack of General MelikoiF in Asia Minor, on the lS'h, who after capturing the first line of the Turkish entrenchments, was driven back to his former position. Many were killed on both sides. The Russian army in Bulgaria have taken up a position between Lovacs and Selvi, so as to command the Shipka Pass. General Gourka, according to Russian accounts, lost 4000 men in his retreat from south of the Balkans. The Turks are preparing for a winter campaign. August 22. Sulieman Pftska's army has not yet crossed the Balkans. He pa.isod Kessamuk [ 'Kosanlikj on the lath instant. The Russian official despatches state that - the allair on the 17th instant was merely to divert the attention of the Turks from the movement of TergukasHoff After a prolonged engagement, chiefly tho artillery, tho Russians " retired " to Kurukdara. Disastrous floods have occurred in 1 "fiM.ind, doing considerable damage to themnharvftcted crops.