The Daily News has again achieved a great triumph, completely
distancing every other English journal. On Friday it published a telegram of nearly six columns, forwarded by its correspondent from Ploredin, before Plevna, with a complete account of the battle, which he had witnessed with his own eyes. The account, which is in itself a most brilliant one, explains clearly the causes of the defeat, and so far as appears, could not have been more frank if it had been forwarded from the head-quarters of a British army. The transmission of such an account in 'two days from a field of battle south of the Danube is most creditable to British news- paper enterprise, and to Russian candour, if it passed over lines under Russian control. It is just possible, however, that it was forwarded by hand to some place whence it could pass over lines still under independent Roumanian management.
