The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-04
CONSTAN ZINE SAID TO HAVE
DESERTED THE WOUNDED.
Although All Hope Of Vanquishing the
r.. Turks Is Gone, the Helenes Desire
One Great Battle to Vindicate
Their Honor.

side say the Crown Prince in every case
avoided an engagement. The effect OF
such conduct of the commander and Of
ficers upon the army was extremely de-
morslizing.
The danger of the dynasty's overthrow
is increasing, and IL is believed the gravity
of the situation consequent upon the pop
uIar>exasperation at hearing of the COW
ardice OF the Crown Prince accounts for
the diplomatic illness of King George and
his proposed departure from Athens.
Among the reports in circulation it is
alternately asserted and denied that an
armistice as been declared. 1t i. also re-
ported that the Greeks have begun to
withdraw from Pharsaa to take up a
final position at Damaki and the Othrys
Mountains.
The Standards Athens correspondent
recording instances of the irritation
against the royal family says at Achaia,
where the Crown Prince owns a large
estate, the people were summoned Sunday
by the church bells. After they had as
sem bled they marched in body to the
royal residence. seized the arms of the
royal guards, smashed the furniture and
burned all the private papers they could
find. The dispatch adds that there was a
renewal of disorders in the churches in
Athens and Patras in connection with the
offering of prayers for the royal family.
Detailed reports OF the three days
ghting at Velestino show that the Turks
were either badly informed by the scouts
or absurdly rash. The truth seems to be
that they did not suspect the presence OF
the Greeks, who were skillfully concealed.
The Ottoman cavalry charge on the
Greeks left wing seemed sheer madness.
Very few horsemen reached nearer than
200 yards of the Greek lines
The wheat field over which they charged
was thickly strewn after the engagement
with the bodies of men and horses who
had fallen victims to the deadly musketry
fire of the Greek highlanders. Many of
the dead were clad in portions of Greek
doned when Larissa was evacuated. The
Turkish loss at Velestino is estimated to
have been 600 killed and large number
wounded.
PARIS, FRANCE, May 3.-Figaro asserts
the King is afflicted with heart trouble
which manifests itself in the recurrence OF
cardiac spasms, and his physicians have
insisted upon his i'm mmediately seeking
change of scene and climate either on
the island of Milo or Syra.
VOLO, GREECE, May 3.-The Greek war
ship which is about to start for the
Preus, the port of Athens, has board over
100 strong boxes containing Government
funds collected in Thessaly. This fact
causes uneasiness, as the people believe
the removal of the treasure indicates the
Government has little faith in the ability
of the army to hold the Turks in check
should they make an advance in force.
Officials here assert, however, the ship
ment of money is simply precautionary
measure.
The Turks are again in the vicinity of
Velestino, where $1,000 Greeks are en-
camped. A French flag has been hoisted
over the hospital for the purpose of pro-
tecting it from the fire of the Turks in the
event of another attack
CoNSTANTINOPLE, TURKEY, Nav s.
The whole of the second-class reserves be-
longing to the Third ARMY Corns have
been called out for active service,