General Tchernaieff telegraphed to Thursday's Daily News that , on the
evening of October 1 the Servian troops, having taken from the enemy a position which they had abandoned on the pre- vious night, found there the bodies of Servian wounded who had been taken prisoners "pinned to the earth by hedge-stakes, the bands stretched out, the feet and parts of the body burnt and charred, the toes cut off, the stomachs disembowelled, and the faces distorted by the agony of the tortures. The finding of Turkish bodies of soldiers among the corpses proved that these atrocities were the exploits of soldiers belonging to the regular army. The truth of this diabolical fact is guaranteed by the word of honour of Colonel Preradovitch, Captain Tikchanoff, and other witnesses." Whereupon the Pall Mall reads General Tchernaieff a lecture on the wickedness of trying to convince an already convinced people of the barbarity of the Turks, and remarks, with immense empressement, that what General Tchernaieff wants is to re-excite the evanescent passion of the English people, not to convince its judgment. Would it not be fairer to say that what General Tchernaieff wants, is to prevent the English conviction of the incompetence of the Turks to act like a decent and civilised power from dying away, till it has impressed itself adequately on our Government?—which it has certainly not done yet, and which the Pall Mall makes it its earnest endeavour that it never shall do.
