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Show TELEGRAPHIC THE WAR. LoudoD, 14. Probably no attempt will be made to cross th Danube before be-fore July. This supposition is strength iieal by the present state of tUu DAnube, The snemy will certainty be on th alert on account ol tho czar's arrival at headquarters, Hnd therefore instead of the czar'a arrival, thought by some of being an judication judica-tion of immediate activity, it is much more probable it will be allowed to loss iU awakening effect on the Turks, aud that they will be suflcred to relapse re-lapse ioto their usual Itthargic state. The Times says: The RuBBiau loan of $75,000,000 was originality offered to houses here and was refused. It is now to be issued at Paris and Berlin. It is stated that the issue prico is seventy per cent, and that a syndicate syndi-cate hat taken the loan at a net price 10 far below this figure ns to leave an ample margin, in face of the fact that the internal forced loan of 200,000,000 roubles has aUo been decreed. This borrowing indicates rapid exhaustion. E.-ieroum, 14. The Turka after occupying Olti marched ia the direction direc-tion o( Arduhan. A Russian detachment detach-ment has been aent from Ardahan to reinforce the centre. Twelve battalions battal-ions of troops, a field battery and four mountais guns left Delibaba to attack: a column of the Russian left wing before be-fore Topralc Kaleh. Constantinople, 14. Three attacks were made on Friday by the Russian against fort Lameze, erected te strengthen the defence of tort Velt-pachi, Velt-pachi, the key to Kara. Attacks followed fol-lowed on Saturday. Result unknown. A dispatch from Lieutenant General Gen-eral He honed Ali announce? the defeat de-feat of the MonteaegrinB at Atchina. Rustchuk, 14. On Tuotday a party of Russians oppesite Maretin made an attack in boats upon the Turkish monitor there, but the latter with the hetp'of the land battery beat them ofl. Yesterday another attempt was made to construct a battery on, tho islands, but the Turks compelled the enemy to retreat. Both affairs are considered faints to find out the position ol the Turkish batteries. The Russians have massed around Kara all the troopa which they brought from Ardahan and other places. For several tlaya they have attempted to storm forta Tahamez and Karadagh, but on every oecasion have been repulsed. re-pulsed. On Saturday they made a desperate ellort to take possession of some of the heights, when the garrison garri-son made a sortie and with field artil Wry repulsed the Kuan i ana with great low. There are no Russian soldiers between Olti and Erzeroum. Constantinople, 14. The porte is expected to reply to the English notification noti-fication regarding the Buez canal, that it considers the canal Turkish property, and aa Turkey has the right to fight her enemies ou the high gem she has obvivualy the right to oppose them on her own territory. At the same time she recognizts the great importance of the canal to the whole world, and will try to prevent it from becoming a scene of hostilities by occupying each end with troops so as to preveut the entrance of any Russian ahips. The Turkish newspapers, news-papers, in referring to the peace ru-more ru-more lately current, are strongly ad-verso ad-verso to peace, and dismiss the subject sub-ject as unworthy of discussion. St. Petersburg, 14. The Turks are altemptine to form counter-ap proaches at Kara and are constantly making sorties. The Russian batteries bat-teries have been very successful in frustrating all these attempts. A sortie was yesterday repulsed with heavy less to the Turka. Seven Russians Rus-sians were alightly wounded. |