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Show FOREIGN. THE WAR. THE BATTLE OF LOIUTZ, London, 7. A correspondent witb the Russian army at Loratz thus describes the lale battle: i'he artillery did most of (he fighting fight-ing until S a m., when the right wing made a rush forward and the mus ketry firing became very heavy, the Turks pouring a steady rain of fire oyer their parapets. At 8 45 two regiments ol infantry were ordered up to assist the trailleursot Dubrovolski Even at this hour the heat was intense. in-tense. An officer arriving from the lineot march of these two regiments states that 100 men have fallen by the wayside, overcome by the beat At 9 o'clock the rifle fire increased in intensity and extended lartber up the Osuaa. The trail leu rs are sweeping the Turks down and our guns open a heavy fire lo assist the infantry in 'their onward movement. At 9.30 NovinBky'a regiment winds through a little defile behind one Turk inh redoubt and the regiments named after tho Get man emperor movo upon the other. At 10 o'clock good news arrived from the right. The Turkish positions have been taken on that front, and the Rufleian? are master- of that position. They must now lake the isolated ridgt called Mount Rous, which overhaugs Loratz and forms the western key ol the poaiiion. With this in their possession, Loratz is theirs, aud tbert remains only the large redoubt furmiog the western key. At 10.20 the firing has ceased entirely upon the right, the Turks having fled ftfirfMM II.HVn.nPi7 Ipavirw DnhrnvnlaLrv unopposed. Geu. Skobeluf bus gone witb twelve battalions towards the extreme left -to tafce Mount Rous, an isolated ridge. At 10.30 ihe pattering patter-ing of musketry ou the left tells ol SkobeleCa advance. At 10.40 bis columu ia seeu moving down the slope of the amphitheatre and crossing cross-ing a little valley intervening between the Blope and Mount Rous. The Russian artillery now opens a tre mendous shell fire upon the slope ot Mount Rous, facing Skobelef, aud the Turks aro eeea running from their intrenchmen'-s on the top aod B opc of this mount; at the foot, however, and near the highway they bold their ground and fire rapidly upon Gen; Skobele-fs advance. The heat is now actually frightful, and it stems im possible tor toe men to fight under it. A regimeut from the reeerve move; i down a d- file to the right of the head quartern l t"ko Mount Rous in flank, and cut ofl 'lie Turkish retreat. At ;12 2o a battery moves up to aupporl !lhe advance of tbia regimeqt and takes a position on the road leading a;oag the eastern end of Mount Ko is. Ten tumults after Skobelef's column rushes up the road and lakes the , height of Mouut Rous, and he crowns them with his iofautry. The t garrison of Turkish batteries away to c our left on the Trojan road, now withdrew towards Trojan, taking their i artillery with them. At 1 we had taken all the Turkiso positions, except ex-cept the redoubt on the Plevna road, the strongest of all. tor it commands a little valley at the hnttom ot the amphitheatre and has outlying de la choi works to tUuk an attacking force. The first period of the battle lias I now terminated. Oid.-rs are given to advance our bhtteriej to the top of Mouut Rous and the right wing crept i carefully forward t. ward the foot of the amphitheatre slope, so as to be in readiueB for an attack upon the r doubt. By 2 o'clock the batteries were in their new positions aud had oped a heavy fire upon the redoubt, the commander of this poaition retired nis gum to the bills ai the back of his ! redoubt, an indication that be believed be-lieved the oaptur of thia fortification a foregone conclusion, and therefore withdrew his guns to prevent their being taken. It is a question whether the Turkish officer did well or ill by his men in lorcing them to delend the last position after the guus had been removed in saf 'ty. A correspondent at Poredin writes, September 6th: I arrived here last nieht from Lova'.z. When I left a heavy force of Turks was on the hill on the northwest ot LavaU, and artillery artil-lery and infantry firing was going ou. The Turks may have been reinforced from Plevna, which arrived too late, or Osman Pasha may be sending troops to keep open the line of retreat to Sophia. Prince Charles of Rouma-nia Rouma-nia is here in command of the Rus-diao Rus-diao line faoing Plevna. There are two division of Rjumania troops here. The Turks showed themselves yesterday aiternoon, but retired inlo their works before Plevna without doing anything. We are expeoting the close of the Plevna business very soon and a Turkish sedan as the result. re-sult. A Russian official bulletin from Gorny Studen, September 6th, says that on the 4th the Turks attempted au attack on Loratz from Mikre, but were repuleed after four hours' skir mishing. An attack by a Bmaii rurkish force on Taberin, near Eleva, was repulsed the same day. On the 5th the Turks attacked a Russian corps near Rustchuk on the whole line, directing their chief attacks against Kazelevo and Oblanowo. The first attack was carried out by fifteen bittalions of infantry and ten squad" runs of cavalry, with tweuty-tbree cannon. Thia force was further increased in-creased during the engagement. One column at Ktizelevo, consisting of five battalions of infantiy and eight squadrons of cayalry, with Borne artillery, maintained its poaition witb gret distinction tor six hours, but was finally compelled to fall back on Ostriza with great Iosb. Our column at Oblanowo was also assailed by a iarge force, but repulsed all attacks and maintained its poaition. The Turks took the offensive on both I wings of the Rustchuk line of de-lense, de-lense, namely, in the direction of Cadikoi and Popskoi, but it is still unknown whether this movement was a serious attack or merely a demonstration. demon-stration. In the Balkans all ia quiet. Sulie- mao rasna u organizing nis army at Kazanlik. We lost 1,03) killed and wounded at the capture of Lovatz. The Turkish Turk-ish less was great and iuoluded 100 prisoners. The St. Petersburg Gazette's Tashkent Tash-kent correspondent writes that the Emir of Bokhara, considering that Russia, by attacking Turkey, threatens threat-ens the whole Mohometan world, has placed his army on a war footing. Russia advised him to disarm, aud in the event of refusal, she wilt attack Bokhara and h ;pes to defeat the emir in a few weeks. A Vienna correspondent telegraphs that the Russian government has ordered or-dered all arrears of taxes to be paid within eight days, or they will be doubled. A correspondent who was present at the battle of Lovatz proceeds to describe ihe attack ou the remaining Turkish redoubt, which he witnessed irom the top of Mount Rous. He suya Mount Rous was within easy cHnnon phot of the poaition attacked. The attacking force was compelled to cross a plain half a mile wide before reaching tho baje of the hill on which the redoubt was constructed. Under musketry fire of the Turkish infantry, ensconced behind their parapets along the road, and on the left bank of the Osma , were several low ridges of earth, high enough to cover a man ia a creeping posture, and these places ot refuge were resting Bpots in the deadly race for the bluff. A cemetery thiough which the Russians had to paes had a number of tall flagstones standing upright and these were taken H van Lai ft fit hv t.hn AHvfinf.incr anl - diers. The attacking force contained the two regiments named after the German emperor, and some of army corps whioh was at Plevna. . It was commanded by Major General j Razmindaiff. At 2.30 o'clock the: order to attack was given. The men I rushed across the valley amid a per-; feet Btorm of bullets. In a few min- j utes the ground was dotted with dead j and wounded Russians, and the sur- i vivors were resting under a little, ridge of the road and the Osma. Tho ; men advanced in open order at a rush, and the Turks kept up a steady stream ol fire. There was not the slightest break in the lain of bullets, 1 yet it was wonderful to see how Bmall a proportion took effect. Sometimes a single soldier would run across the whole space between the river and the bluff. 1 could see where every bullet hit around him by the dust which it threw up, aud yet he generally got across unhurt. un-hurt. There were minutes when no Russian was under fire, aud yet the Turks never stopped. It appears that they were lying down in trenches, firing over the parape s without looking. The Rusmana declare de-clare that they never saw even a head above the banki. By 3 o'clock a consider ole force had collected under the bluQ and commenced working round to the angle of the redoubt looking up the Plevna road, OIJUl''D H-riy m uiHtract at leution from the first, crept up the face of the bluff end opened a scatter ing fire on the face of the redoubt, towards Lovatz. Away to the northward north-ward of the Plevna road a Russian foroe now makes its appearance with a battery of artillery, to cut off the Turkish retreat toward Plevna. Another attacking column ia now seen advancing up the river Odma from our extreme right. They are scattered scat-tered io open order aod steal along unobserved hy Hie Turks lo reinforce the party uuder 'he northern eud of the blud. Ail this time the Turks keep up an incessant rifle fire, but the guns oh f the hills at the back of the redoubt only fire occasionally, as our troops cannot be seen from that poo-tion. The Russian artillery thunders aa" very rapid ty and two batteries are now advanc-.d down the road nearly to the edge ot the city. The Russians gathered under the bluff now make a rush forward and ascure poaeessioo of some Turkish trenches in front of tho 1 eastern face of the redoubt, within 100 yards ot the ditch. It jB now 4 o'clock p.m., and the decisive mo- i ment approaches. The men along Lovatz, in front of the works, open ire and draw the Turkish fire in their iirection, when suddenly about fifty Russians make a rush upon the east eru facfl of the redoubt and approach within fifty yards ot the ditch. Tucy were compelled to retire by (he tremendous tre-mendous Turkish fire. After twenty minutei of desultory firing the real attack ib made up the slope, firing on the eastern side of the redoubt. Tee Russians rush up in order, keeping a stream of reiuforcemeuti following the advance. A perfect deluge of shells is poured upon the redoubt from our batteries, as the men run up the Blope, while the Turkiah infantry fire ia incessant, and if it were well directed overy Russian would havu been shot down As it ia many fell. Our artillery ceases firing as our men leap into the d'tcb-s and clamber up the parapet, while another column rushes along the Lovatz lace of the redoubt to clear the advance trenches. The Turks in the tremhea fly to tho westward, firing as they go, and falling fall-ing under the Russian Ore in the redoubt. re-doubt. The garrison rush to the gorge in the wentern face of the work. There is a traverse covering thia gorge and the Turks are jammed between the traverse and western parapets. In a few seconds the firing oeasea, the day is ours, aud the Turks arein full retreat to "the westward where no force has been sent to cut ofl their flight. Immediately alter the redoubt was taken the correspondent corres-pondent entered the roads adjacent tne plain which were thickly dotted witb dead and wounded. Up the slope where the Russians bad charged the redoubt I was surprised to find so few dead, the Turkish fire having principally gone too high. Inside :of the redoubt were the corpses of Turks and Ruasiana thickly atrewing I the grounds, but at the western end where the Turks had been jammed in in their efforts to escape, the space of fifty teet by twenty was covered with Turkish dead and wounded to the depth of five feel. The living and dead were lying on each other in a dense mass, steaming witb heat and 1 blood. Around this Moslem pile was a fringe of dead Rus- 1 Bians, showing that there had ' been a fearful struggle on thia fatal space. Tbe Russian soldiers were standing upon this mass of humanity. human-ity. I waiched them working manfully man-fully to separate the living from the dead. In half an hour tbey had made scarcely any impression upon that fearful pile. The road was strewn with Turks, with here and there a Rus-tian. Some of the Turks had bean shot first and then repeatedly repeat-edly bayoneted. The correspondent estimates the Russian loss at 1,000. The masseB were not exposed as at Plevna. Skill was substituted for brute force. Gen. Razmindaiofl", who commanded the assauit on the redoubt, re-doubt, was wounded in tbe Leg. A special, dated Gorny Studen, reporta that Grand Duke Nicholas' heedquarters are moving to Poredin. Reaerves and reinforcements are arriving. arriv-ing. The imperial headquarters will go to-morrow to Bansmuth, on the Osma. The Turks from Lovatz fled due weet, pursued by Generul Skobel-ofl's Skobel-ofl's Cossacks. Belgrade, 7. The Roumanian envoy en-voy has entered into definite arrangements arrange-ments with the Servian and Roumanian Rou-manian armies. Bucharest, 7. From to-day goods traffic on alt Roumanian railways will be suspended. |