CABLE MESSAGES. THE WAR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2639, 6 October 1877, Page 2

CAB LE MESSAG ES. THE WAR.

eu'ropean telegrams. rilLCTEu's TBLRan/VM3 TO TRESS A.GFHCV 1 RUSSIAN SUCCESS REGARDED AS HOPELESS. London, September 28. The Daily News and other specials report "that there is great discontent and discouragement at the Russian head-quarters and that Russian success is regarded as hopeless uuless there is is a change in tho personel of the staff. SIEGE OPERATIONS AT A STANDSTILL. The siege operations at Plevna are at a standstill for want of shovels. INDECISIVE ENGAGEMENT. A severe fight lasting for nine hours between the forces under Ismael Pasha and General Tergukasoff. The result was indecisive. Chefket Pasha is entrenched before Orchame. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. The President informed the Hungarian Parliament that a triple alliance involved Hungary in an obligation regarding the Eastern question. ' INDIAN FAMINE FUND. London, September 29. Two hundred and seventy thousand pounds subscribed towardsTndia Famine Fund. Two hundred thousand six hundred has been remitted to India. A CORRECTION. Bombay, September 25. Twenty-one thousand and not twentyseven thousand was the RussianRoumanian loss at Plevna. The rains in Bulgaria retard operations. RUSSIANS AGAIN DEFEATED. An unofficial despatch reports that the Russian centre, on the 25th, attacked Plevna again, and was defeated with very heavy loss. The Russians were compelled to fall back to the south of Jozkyi with heavy losses.