The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-21
BATTLE OF MILoUNA PASS
Connected Narrative of the First Reverse
of the Greeks

New York, April 2O-The Journal this
morning publishes a dispatch sent by the
SPECIAL correspondent of the London
Daily Mail ton is paper from Milouna
Pass, Thessaly, describing the Graeco-
Turkish battle. The dispatch follows:
"Miibouna, Pass, Thessaly, April is, 9
D. m.-The bloody fight at this pass be-
gan last evening at 5 o'clock and is still
in progress. The battle had for its scene
a series of hills. varying in height, some
of them densely covered with brushwood
and others completely bare.
the morning broke delightfully."- fine,
the sky cloudless and the sun pouring
down j perhaps too genial heat. At the
base of the opposing hills stretched away
into thu far distance were two long lines
of smoke, showing where the fight was
in progress. The wind was not strong
enough to scatter this smoke, which,
from where 1 stood, at the head Of the
pass, seemed at every moment 10 grow
denser and heavier.
BAYONET CHARGE.
"The din of the firing was almost deaf
ening. The fight became intensified as
the dag grew and the clearer light en-
abied the antagonistic positions to be
more clearly discerned. Very early in the
morning the Greeks with splendid brav-
r-y charged the Turks and took posses
sion of the ililltops stretching below the
peaks, and the Turks, recovering from
their momentary check, and cheered on
by their officers, who led their men mag
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cold steel. An awful scene Of bloodshed
and carnage ensued. Through my glass
I could see struggling masses OF men, the
CLINT of steel as the bayonets swept
through the air. the fash Of revolvers
and the raised butt ends Of rifles doing
their dreadful club work. The struggle
was brief. though apallingly deadly.
Tie Greeks, fighting TO the last. were
swept back by the impetuous onslaught
OF the Turks and the hilltops were again
in possession OF the invaders.
Toward s a. m, Marshal Edhem Pa
sha advanced toward the fighting line
VIA FIVE battalions OF the reserve. A
strong force of cavalry covered the
TANKS OF the infantry. who marched over
to the yellow fields with shouts OF en-
thusiasn. Edhem Pasha took up his
post face to face with the line of hills 10
the left OF Milouna, which were where
the Greeks were in strongest force. I
cannot omit mentioning that the mar
shall sat down on the ground Turkish
fashion. locked as cool and unconcerned
as the most disin.erested OF the specta-
tors The Greeks still fought harS and
the Turks pressed them vigorously.
ARTILLERY IN ACTION.
The grid slopes OF the hills were whit
ensd Nita puffs Of smoke as me duel pro-
oeeiei: About 9 O'Clock when the day.
whole week, the Turkish field artillery
came mo action under command OF Riaz
Pashs.
Owing to the difficult nature Of The
ground Raj could not approach the hills.
which the Greeks were holding for two
miles and a half but az this great range
shells dropped with the incest precision
:rto places where the Greeks were the
strongest.
"For the time being al interest was
concentrated upon The work ot Risz Pa
guns As etl-1i dANeE >itc4a
its way through the ar 70 the hills three
miles OF. the effect % ne Smelling MAS
evident The Greek rife fire diminished
and I noticed. as evidence o. the ire
meadous destruction and GENERALIZATION
wrought by the shells. that az many
PLACES n The Greek position there was an
Absolute cessation % a-lng. After a shell
- jwo had d. rpsd- The shells had either
k led The Greeks or driven them panic
stricken away
"A, tslf past nize the principal posi-
lions IN re Creek side had been ei5hsr
broken by Storm % evacuated one IN
ro-;zn, hilltop alone remained IN pos
ssssior .. the Greeks 4: o'clock Ei-