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Show FOREIGN. THE EASTERN WAR. Constantinople, 3. An imperial irade is published, appointing Raouf Pasha to the command of the army of the Balkans atSchipka and Suleiman Pasha to the command of the army ol tbe Danube, vice Mehemet Ali recalled. re-called. Official intelligence received here states that Moukhtar Pasha was on Tuesday engaged in a great battle near Adrianople. When the telegram was dispatched the Turks appeared to be winning. Cettinge, 3. Some Btrong detachments detach-ments of bnshi bazouks whoattempled to enter Montenegro near Sutonran were repulsed on Monday, after several sev-eral hours aanguinary fighting. Schipka, 3. Raouf Pasha has ar rived and assumed command. Sistova, 3. Roumanians having pushed their fourth parallel close to the second Griviiza redoubt, an attack at-tack is expected in three dayB. Two brigades of riflemen and a strong force of cavalry have bf.en sent west to intercept fresh columns which are reported to have already started from Orchanie. A Sofia dispatch says Chefket Pasha has been largely reinforced by men from the Schipka army. He has commenced a forward movement, and decisive fighting with Odmanl Pasha's cooperation it shortly expected. ex-pected. Prodigious quantities ot munitions are going to the front. Bucharest, 3. Greater activity is observable before Plevna since Monday. Mon-day. The reserve and reinforcements have arrived. It is thought operations will commence early next week. A Russian official dispatch dated from .before Plevna statea that on Monday and Tuesday Grand Duke Nicholas, I Prince Charles of Roumania and General Todd leben, inspected the I Russian and Roumanian positions. All Russian and Roumanian works are well advanced. The last regimsnt of the Russian imperial guard passed through here today. The Turks have abandoned Kal-arach Kal-arach on the approach of the Russians. Rus-sians. Arouud" Tiroova, fifty retu gees are dying daily from typhus lever. Four hundred Obchasian prisoner have been killed in a railway rail-way accident between Woreash aud Noatuf on the Don. Een, 3. Russia lus ordered 300 Krupp cannon. Vienna, 3. Many arrests have . been made in Transylvania. Much sens ition is caused in Peslh by M. Helfy, ft wull -known member of the diet, being placed under Burveillance fur connection with the recently discovered dis-covered plot. The Geahofls bave arrived at Constantinople. Con-stantinople. Russia has offered to clear the obstruction from the mouth of the Danube if the neutral powers will guarantee to prevent tbe entrance en-trance of Turkish men of war during the present war. Karajl, 3. A general attack was made on Mukhtar Pasha's whole line this morning. Gem MelikotT was in (iommand under orders of Grand Duke Michel. The key of Mukbtar's poeition, which was defended by only a single battalion, was attacked on three sides and captured. The battalion bat-talion was annihilated. Tbe Turks tried to recapture this point, but wero repulsed. Further progress of Russians was insignificant, but hopes are entertained of cutting off Mukhtar lrom Kars. The Russians bivouacked on the conouered positions. Fight ing ie sure to recommence early tomorrow. to-morrow. About 1,500 Russians were killed and wounded. Tbe Turk were misled by their spies and only expected ex-pected to be attacked on their flanks. London, 3. A Belgrade dispatch reports the active interchange of communications between Servia and Greece, tbe dispatch of cannon to the frontier and other warlike signs. A Vienna dispatch says a number of police bave been arreeted for connection con-nection with the recent conspiracy. The fact that arma have been seized at various railway stations in Austria produced ft great sensation, as it seems to indicate that some attempt was intended in the direction of Poland as well as Roumania. |