There is little news from Bulgaria. The Russians are still
Pouring across the Danube, have occupied Biela to the south- east and Tirnova to the south, are moving in some strength to a point from which they could prevent the passing of the Jantra, and must be accumulating large camps at points not mentioned within that triangle. The army in the Dobrudscha is also moving down, though it has not yet passed Trajan's Wall in ime' i6 cluite evident, however, that as yet the bridge is not safe, that the supply of food is not sufficient—the correspondents .do not say so, but they do mention the dining-troubles of men who would be fed first—and that the Russians will complete their communications and their magazines before they move forward in force. "Raiding parties," as the Americans call them, may get far South, or if that Heydue story has any truth in it, even across the Balkans, but the movement of a great army with an enemy on Its flank, with insufficient provisions, and with a range of mountains in front and a great river behind, would be a rashness of which we have no right to believe Russian Generals capable. Food and forage must be collected, and however stern the discipline, that is a work which takes great time. The Russian commissariat is evidently in a bad state. No effort has been made to collect sausages, which carry easily and keep well ; all the letters speak of black bread instead of biscuit, which takes only half the cartage, and the arrangements about water are palpably infamous.
Every third correspondent mentions instances in which the tired men were drinking mud, and this in an army where every soldier can be made to carry seventy-two pounds. The mud only fills the hospitals, but the food and the forage must be had, or the army cannot advance.
