Yesterday we already presented an extract from the last (26th) 
Army Bulletin published in the Vienna Lithographierte Correspondenz.? 
Today we have the complete text of the Bulletin before us.° 

However hard Windischgratz endeavours to give the action at 
Kapolna the character of a major battle, however violently he flings 
about bayonet-charges, cavalry attacks and bombardments—he is 
soundly defeated in his aim by the figures he himself gives of the 
dead and captured. 200-300 killed on the Magyar side in a major 
two-day battle in which “we had to deal with the main force of the 
enemy at all points”! It can be seen that the Magyars for their part 
threw no more than a few corps into the fighting which, as we said 
already yesterday, were at the most intended to cover the retreat of 
the main army and keep the Austrians at a respectable distance. For 
a battle between two large armies, particularly one lasting two days, 
results in far greater losses than a few hundred men. 

But Windischgratz exaggerates even more ridiculously when he 
speaks of the “numerical superiority’ of the Magyars. The war in 
Hungary would have been over long ago if the small Magyar nation 
could even achieve “numerical” equality with the imperial 
troops—but numerical superiority! The superiority of 5 million over 
31 million!! 

One report goes as far as to maintain that 27,000 Austrians 
defeated twice as many Magyars at Kapolna! But this report is, in 
addition, so remarkably skilfully and credibly written that it relates in 
the same breath that, having retired to Erlau, the Magyars were met 
there by Gétz It is known, however, that G6tz is wandering around 
some 30 miles away in the area of Kaschau and Eperies, and now he 
is suddenly supposed to have marched all the way to Erlau! 

Marz”, Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung No. 65, March 6, 1849.— Ed. 

Otherwise the Bulletin contains nothing new, and we can safely 
put it aside. 

Now to Transylvania. Here it is true that Bem has not taken 
Hermannstadt, and that for very simple reasons. After absorbing the 
4,000 strong column from Hungary, he marched along the Maros in 
order to join up with the Szekler Landsturm.” While he was advancing 
from Muhlbach by way of Mediasch, the Szeklers from the opposite 
direction came to meet him and took Schassburg with 7,000 men on 
the 16th. The garrison and a part of the civic militia escaped to 
Hermannstadt; Bem pursued them and is now once again in the vi- 
cinity of this town, as a letter of the 18th from Hermannstadt relates. 
According to one report it is said to have already been evacuated by 
Puchner. 

From this it is evident that Bem has executed another of those 
victorious advances across Transylvania in which he has already 
greatly distinguished himself several times. His connections with the 
intrepid Szeklers, who live close by the Moldavian border, after being 
momentarily threatened by Puchner and the Russians, have been 
restored; Sachsenland”! is in extreme peril, he “now has the keys of 
Sachsenland in his hands’. 

The Saxons moreover complain of the lack of good leadership 
from above, and of the Romanians’ lack of courage. The latter are 
said to be displaying extreme cowardice. One report says*: 

“The only trouble is the lack of good leadership from above and the lack of 
courage and endurance on the part of the Wallachian troops. All the unsuccessful 
engagements have hitherto been lost through the fault of the Wallachians. At Salzburg 
the regular Wallachian army threw itself flat on its belly at the first cannon shot, and at 
Kronstadt the Russians had to form up behind the Wallachians to prevent them from 
running away. But if the battle is won, they are always the foremost and cruellest in 

looting, and spare neither the enemy nor their wounded comrades lying on the 
battlefield.” 

This shows what gangs of brigands the royal imperial regime is 
employing to maintain its authority. Moreover, the Siebenbürger Bote 
is awaiting the following royal imperial reinforcements: 

“According to reports received the corps heading for Transylvania under generals 
Glaser, Todorovich and Mengen is said to comprise the following troops: 8 battalions 
of infantry, Leiningen, Rukavina, men from Peterwardein,”“~ Romanians, Illyrians, 
and German-Banat Borderers; 5 squadrons of Uhlans, 300 mounted Serbs, 80 
Serezhans; one Congreve battery, one mounted foot-battery, two ordinary foot- 
batteries, 5 Serbian cannon. A total of 15,000 men.” 

The Transylvanian Flemings will have to pray many a Lords 
Prayer before these alleged 15,000 men get through. Unfortunately 
Damjanich and Vetter on the Lower Maros are still giving them 
more than enough to do, accordingly they are leaving Transylvania 
to the Russians. 

From the Banat theatre of war, little news.”* The Serbs boast of the 
following heroic deeds: 

“Theresiopel has been taken by the Serbs, and on the 25th it is reported from the 
Sava that a skirmish has occurred at Futtak between the Syrmien provincial battalion 

and the Magyar garrison of Neusatz as a result of which the former town was reduced 
to ashes by the Magyars.” 

The truth or otherwise of this we leave as a matter for conjecture. 
At the same time we hear that the great hero Nugent, whom we have 
assumed to have long since reached the Lower Theiss or the area of 
Peterwardein, has still not even crossed the Danube, but is only now 
“thinking of crossing” this river “near Mohacs”!! 

And while he is amusing himself with these thoughts the Magyars 
are taking the greatest liberties in his close vicinity, in the Tolna 
comitat, on the right bank of the Danube, at the rear of Ofen. Here, 
in a region which was—how many times—“cleaned up” by the royal 
imperial troops, the long-lost Percze]l suddenly turns up as a guerilla 
leader and sets the whole area in motion. Just listen: 

“In Battaszek an imperial officer was taken prisoner as a result of this agitation, in 
Paks an imperial courier was stopped and his escort of two men disarmed. In 
Dombovar district all cattle belonging to Prince Esterhazy were slaughtered. In 
Laczhaza, too, just as the market was being held, 50 insurgents appeared from Duna 
Vecse and Solt with their lead-studded whips and seized al] the cattle driven there for 
sale.” 

That was today’s news. The victory of Windischgratz reduced to a 
pointless and ineffectual attack, Bem’s operations in Transylvania as 
skilful as they are successful, the Serbs in the Banat still standing on 
the banks of the Maros at a loss what to do, Nugent still unable to 
cross the Danube and move into the Banat, the area between the 
Drava and the Danube preparing to revolt against the imperial 
authorities —that is the résumé of the position of the warring parties 
according to the latest reports. | 

Zeitung No. 241, March 9, 1849 time