The correspondent of the Daily News now with General Gourko
completes the story of the horrors of Plevna by a ghastly narra- tive, which, as he says, is not to be paralleled out of Dante, and which reflects equal discredit on Turks and Russians. The thousands of wounded Turks in Plevna were left by Osman Pasha, when he made his sortie, without attendance of any kind, even to give them bread or water ; and the Russians forgot them for three days, during which hundreds died of thirst, hunger, and neglect. Even when at last attention was paid to the wounded, Bulgarians were impressed to perform the task, and as they hated it, performed it with a brutality which to Englishmen seems impossible. The dead, for one thing, were not carried, but dragged by the heels out of the hospitals ; while so gross was the haste, that the wounded in many cases every day were interred still living. It is a strange proof of the excellence of Turkish rule, that it seems to have roused among Bulgarians an almost fiendish hatred, so that a wounded Turk excites less sympathy than a wounded animal. The Russian Commandant at Plevna, whoever he is, ought to be called to a severe account by his Government for not preventing a scene which is a scandal to humanity.
