The War by C. W. S.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 24, 1877

The War.

By C. W. S.

THE big battle between the Russians and the Turks has perhaps not yet been fought, and yet considerable fighting has been done in the vicinity of Kars in Asia Minor, and along the Danube.

On the night of the 16th, the Turks made a general attack upon the Christians in the Turkish village of Turtukai, on the Danube, killing all the males and many of the women. The cries of the victims were heard by the Roumanian outposts.

Austria is becoming much alarmed by some of the movements of Russia, and has declared that she will occupy Servia if agitation continues. The president of the Hungarian council is with the emperor at Vienna, and ministerial councils are held almost daily.

In England the war feeling is intense. In English homes, even among the lower ranks, the feeling of intense hostility against Russia is marked. They charge to the Czar’s covetous ambition the hardships arising from the rise in the price of bread, stagnation in business, and other miseries that accompany war without its advantages.

The Independent says that the London press is greatly excited by the discussions of the war. The Times is strongly anti-Russian, as is also the Pall Mall Gazette. The Independent thinks that all the indications at present are that England will interfere for the protection of Turkey under the name of “British interests.”

And now comes news of internal difficulty in France. Advices from Paris, dated the 18th, state that France is trembling on the verge of a revolution which may result in bloodshed and the trial of MacMahon as a traitor. It is understood that MacMahon believes a general European war inevitable. It is considered doubtful whether he can retain his hold of the presidency.

C. W. S.