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Show THE EASTERN 4C L ESTI4. Latest !Vew ;irom flie Turco-Husalaa Turco-Husalaa AiTir. CAPTURE OF THE SHIPKa. Pi S3 ARMY. St, Petersburg, 10. Grand Duke Nicholas has telegraphed the following to tbo emperor from Letch, January 9 lb: "I am happy to congratulate your majesty upon a brilliant victory gained this day. General Radetseky has, alter desperate lighting, captured cap-tured the whole Turkish army defending de-fending Shipka paBfe, consisting of forly-oae battalions, ten b itleries, and one regiment of cavalry. Prince Mirsky has occupied Kexaulik. Gen. Scobelonn holds Shipka." SIX WIKKS1 ARMISTICE. London, 10. A correspondent ol the Manchester Guardian telegraphs that he believes trix weeks' armistice has been already agreed upon on tbe basis uti possedetis. A dispatch from Constantinople men tions that a similar report is current there and that military operations are ordered to be suspended from 10 o'clock Tuesday -night, but the correspondent cor-respondent points out that these rumors are necessarily premature since military representatives of the belligerents to conduct negotiations had not then been appointed. Mohamet Mo-hamet Ali, who it was stated had gone to arrange an armistice, attended tbe war counoil Tuesday and left Constantinople Con-stantinople Tuesday nijfbt, Conatantinople, 10. T--From the note of Earl Derby to Layard, British ambassador here, Informing him of the Russian reply concerning an armistice, the porle inferred that it had only to propose an armistice for it to be concluded, Roouf Pasha, minister of war, accordingly telegraphed tele-graphed yesterday to the Russian I grand dukes proposing an armistice and announcing that the commander of the Adrianople army had po-erto treat on behalf of Turkey. Up to the present time no reply has been re-iceived re-iceived from Russian headquarters. |