New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-06-06
CRETE.
THE DEFEAT OF OMAR PASTA.

Froo our Special Correspondent - 49,, 5000.
The last test Of Crctan military endurance IS over.
Omar Pasha with all his host, is rcpulscd disas-
trousiy from all his attacks Oh the mountain passes
and is now moving eastward, ravaging everything
rs he goes He has informed the Crelans that if they
do not surrender he will cut down all the olive trees
in the island and in the vicinity Of his late defeat
has already destroyed 5000 This is Turkish ciyiliza
ton.
We have had a rapid succession of battles. Omar
Pasha had hardly moved out into the interior when
HadU Mikal, moving ac ross from Omaio with ms
Lakiotes. found body Of Turkish tloops-two bat
taliOns and some i11eguiais-nOFIng out on recon-
nOies9nce, and went az once 70 attack tIlch uIiNhR
them down. after twO-days fight, to hoaNd, where,
the second day. reCn iOIcements reached the troops,
and the Hadji Withdrew.
AsI advised Won some weeks ago would be the
case, the PaSha made a strong double movement on
the town OF Splal,a, an The direction oil halllmatl'
the division OF Mehcmet Pasha making an ihcuIsioh
on Krapi. All three attacks were lepnlScd' QhH Ir
Pasha attacked at GaiOuIOpOis, but was beatcn ba9h
10 Episkopi ia battle OF which we have lew deIhls
Tho attack from the south seaside was also lrpnStu
as must have been expected, and Mchclnct IasHa
attacking Kapi Saturday morning fought iuil Sln-
day night at 10, and then withdrew, pursued near! 10
the sea side at NeIOlhOri five on FIX hours rom
KIap The IOut complete. Ills bltlencheu
camp 1T Oryns was useless aud to save his commune
cations with Omar Pasia, who has ms depot at
Drama, no was obliged to retreat 10 A1nyro abal-
d0uinQ his original base at KnIyVes His loss IS
stated by the Creans at 200, which Blay not be eX-
aggcIated the ground is excessively favorable TO
the Cretans, especially i'll pursuing and cutting Oh
straeglCTs.
Omar Pasha then pushed, or rather LED out. re-
conuoisSance with 900 men; but not finding any
weak pUnt I'm the delcnses, concluded 10 abandon
the attack and moved of toward Retmo, threaten
ing and destroying, and, perhaps hoping that CoIo-
neOs would be Iasi enough to come down INTO ihe
plain and meet him, or determined 10 get lhtO
Lasithi and beat the new force landed there before
they should have gathered the people together.
,yas a IN withdrawn
than Hadji Mikali moved back TO the mountains oI
Omaro and thence made descent on the plain ot
Canea, burning and ging the Turkish property
AT Agra. Manna. Galatus Periouglia, &c, within
gunshOt of Canea. The diminutive corps lett 10
guard the plain was h0rs da combat in iiliey aud
though the guns at Leda beloved thunder, they
didn't strike anywhere, and the uadji walked over
the course. -
Tie panic is extreme; the Turks finally. despair,
and il The Christians take IT into their heads 10
descend on the large but comparatively empty camp
IN the vicinity OF Canea, they VIII make rich booty
with small loss.
tinuance of the war is sin and disgrace for which
the Christian powers responsible, as IT VIII result
in nothing but the desolation of the island Now
pie mp The American eqnlrDl'lops ana sehd 'heh
quick.