The herald., 1897-04-30

just received from Pharsalos dated yes
terday (Thursday) at 4 p. m, says that
Turkish army corps from Larissa has
occupied TrilSkala unresisted.
NO PROGRESS MADE
PARIS, April 29.-At cabinet meet
ing today the minister of foreign affairs
Nj. Hanotaux, explained the course of
events in the east and the progress of the
| negotiations of the powers to bring
about a settlement of the disputes be-
tween Greece and Turkey.
WANTS MEDIATION
LONDON, April 29-The Rome corre-
srondent of the Daily Chronicle says it
is asserted at the Italian foreign office
that Greece has privately approached
France, England and Russia for the pur
pose of invoking their mediation be-
| tween her and Turkey
GREEKS IN TURKEY
CONSTANTINOPLE. April 29.-The
question of the protection of Greeks in
Turkey is still unsettled. The porte
argues that the war has virtually an
nulled the treaties between Turkey and
Greece and the Grecian subjects there
fore have lost the right to their foreign
certificates of protection.
NJ Cambon, the French ambassador,
in an interview with Tewfik Pasha, dis
cussed this subject today. AT a council
of ministers yesterday proposition was
submitted for the sanction of the sui
tan to grant the Greeks an extension
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probable that this will be accepted as
means of surrounding the difficulty
THE GREEKS RETIRE
ATHENS, April 30-The Greeks have
| fallen back on Pharsalos. Railway COM
munication between Volo and Pharsa-
los has been restored. The advance
guard Of the Turkish division has moved
forward from all points and taken up
various positions on the Thessalian
plain Both armies are now in immedi-
ate contact, and great battle is be-
lieved to be imminent.
GOING BACK HOME
ST. PETERSBURG, April 29-Em-
peror Francis Joseph of Austria has
started for Vienna.
TURKEYS HOPES
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 29.-The
victories of the Turkish troops have
enormously raised the military spirit of
the Turks and the confidence thus in
spired in Turkeys vitality is removing
the dissatisfaction felt with the present
regime while at the same time 1t renders
the powers scheme of reforms for the
Ottoman empire harder of realization.
The advantages which Turkey will de-
rive from the war are already discussed
in high quarters, where it is declared
that Turkey should in any case be re-
leased from the obligations imposed
upon her in regard to Crete, and the rec
tification of the frontier. 1t Is also sug-
gested and urged that Cape Punta, OPP
posite Prevessa at the entrance of the
Gulf of Arta should be restored to Tur-
key and that Greece should be required
to pay a big indemnity. In military cir
cles it is further urged that Turkish
squadron should be dispatched to Volo
to support Edhem Pasha's occupation
of that district of Greece. The Turkish
squadron however, has not yet left the
Dardenelles and the captain of an Aus
trian mail ship which has just arrived
here reports that three of the Turkish
warships and one of the Turkish tor
pedo boats have run aground in the Dar-
denelles. The Austrian captain adds
that one of these warships is in serious
position, as the sea is breaking over her
1t is believed the war vessels collided
during the progress of naval maneuvers
The German ambassador, Baron Saur-
ma Won Jeltsch, had an audience with the
sultan.
MILES MAY GO
WASHINGTON. April 29.-Gen. Miles
today received the formal assent of the
president to his projected trip to Tur-
key and Greece. The order read:
1.-THE president grants you permission
to proceed as soon as practicable to the
seat of war in the Levant, and if author
| ity therefor be granted to you by the re-
spective governments concerned, to visit
\ the Turkish and Greek armies, or both,
as in your Judgment may be desirable.
The president further grants you au-
thority while in Europe to visit such
other countries as may in your opinion
offer the best opportunity for military
observation and at such times as you
may deem most expedient."
General Miles will be gone two or three
| lilOulHo dS III dublbiOii ~ iiiohiiiS pei
sonal study of the military features of
the contest between the Turks and the
Greeks he proposes to inspect the mill
tary establishments of the principal
European powers, Germany, France and
England, and possibly Russia.
The result of his observations will be
embodied in an official report to the
president.