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Show FOREIGN. TH E EAHTFItX W K. Loridon, 17. Telegraphic delays cause confusion of dates in the war dispatches. There has been no serious engagemont since the defeat of General KkobelorT on Wednesday, in which he lost half of his command. The Daily News, a Btrong pro-Russian journal, thus sumB up the morning morn-ing intelligence: Looking impartially at the (acts presented this morning, we are unable to form any other con j elusion than that the attack ou Plevna has not only failed, but (ailed that it cannot be renewed under the con-i con-i diiious in which the Russian com mander finds himself placed. He ba9 i attempted wbat the great German commanders never attempted in their French campaign, and baB used up 9 his Blight superiority of men with extraordinary rapidity. He is liable to be attacked at any given part ot i his front by a force larger than any , which he can assemble there. In a j word, he is beaten, t The battle reported at Duurick, iu b which the RuasianB were said to have - been defeated, must have been, if at 5 all, a village five miles northwest ol i Vralza, on the Rahova road. Reports say that Osman Fash a haf i fortified a position almost impregnable e naturally at Pratz. upon which he will retire it driven trom rievna. Anyhow, the Roumanian attempt to cut ofl his communications seems to havn failed, Chefvet Pasha, leader in the Bulgarian Bul-garian massacreB, has been sent to command Osman Pasha's reserves at OrkaDieh, and guard his communications, communi-cations, probably also with a view of keeping an eye on Servia. The main body of the czarowitch's army is concentrated betweeu Tir stenid and Biela. Tbe headquarters of the 12ih corps is at iablana or the Jalyabeanava, near Batin ou the Danube, where a ferry hag been established. A new bridge ie rebuild-1 ine to replace the one given up at Pyrgoa, The czarowitch's headquarters headquar-ters ia at tbe Lower Monaster. This position, from Gantra to Banica Lorn, is cut up by gorges, ravines and small Btreams, and has been further 6trngthened by' formidable earth works. It has evideutly been selected as -the best cover ou that Bide for Histova communications. Vienna, 17. A meeting between Bismarck and Andrassy will take place early, and it seems almost as if in preparation for this event that the German cabinet has issued categorical categori-cal details of reports that Germany wan about to quit and had to a certain cer-tain extent already abandoned that reserved attitude all along observed by her in the eastern question, and that tbe representations made by her in Constantinople about the Geneva convention were but a prelude to an active policy in favor of Russia. In official circles these rumors never found the least belief, but on the pubiic they did not fail to make im-preesionB, im-preesionB, consequently the contradiction contradic-tion on the eve of the meeting of Bismarck Bis-marck and AndraBsy comes conveniently conveni-ently to Btop all further conjectures and inferences which may have been drawn from them as to tbe relations between Austria and Germany, and take away the ground from those who nglect no opportunity to arouse and foster suspicious against tbe policy ol Germany in the eastern question. |