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Show ! SCIllI'L PANS I The Kiiftfllmif Ilnld the PoNi-I PoNi-I lion, and U la Probably Secure. Se-cure. London, 28. A correspondent at S:sluva telegraphs on Monday as follow?: fol-low?: Fighting is still going on in Irout iu Schipka pass. Radetzka continues to maintain his ground, al-ihuUK al-ihuUK hi los-ips are serious. 1 bold iu im ctinvicLiuu that BOllirtCA IS SAFB, and that thus is defeali tl the great HtntU'Kic duhtime of the Tuikish lead ere to I nun lint Kus.nu.s withiu a larr circiiiiilereiicw in Bulgaria, with the ultimate luleut ol driving them lover the IXtuube. The next lew days will ho full of interest. These past, I shall expect the Russians to take the initiative in a vigorous o tie naive policy on both flanks, and so relieve themselves them-selves Irom the existing pressure, and 1 having done bo, pursue their design ol sweeping the country north of the Balkans CLEAR OF THE TURKISH ARMIES. Tne spirit and condition of the Russian Rus-sian soldiers are high and satisfactory. They may be relied upon to fight. The Russians have been passing through a dangerous crisis. They had only so many men to bold their ground in Bulgaria pending the arrival ar-rival of reinforcements rendered necessary by the unexpected devolope inent of the Turkish fighting strength. They have disposed a light fence around the edge of a large area which tiey had been able to occupy owing to the inactivity ol the Turks in tne early Binges ol the campaign. Dreading Dread-ing attacks from the right and left on Tiruova the Russians kept a body of troops belonging to the English corps about that hue available to Htrengthen any weak position (iSit minht threaten. When 8uleiman Pasha took the village ol Schipka thero was SOT A RUSSIAN SOLDIER available to reinforce the email force holding the pass nearer than Tirnova, lorty milea away. -ReiufoicementB arrived in the nick of time, but the safety of the Schipka pnsiiiou was an alf.iir of minuter, snd if the Turka had struck all around simultaneously, either tlie Schipka position must have been led to iu late or some other section sec-tion of the fence line must have been seriouhly endangered. I think, however, how-ever, that the crisis is virtually passed. The arrival of reinforcements, now flowing in a steady stream, ahould enable en-able the Grand Duke to breathe more easily. It is said that the bills around Schipka are covered with Turkish bodies and that their loss has already been as great as that of the Russians at Plevna. |