The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30

that 1 came in a non-partisan spirit 1
was allowed to tour the mountains back
to Thessaly the very day the Turks came
into that city and left 10000 fezzed troops
to guard their latest acquisition.
1t is an easy thing to get a passport
through Greece at the present day.
though impossible to penetrate Turkey
Greece is in the position of nothing
could be worse" while Turkey is holding
jeasously TO her own, which she gets
with such difficulty.
To tour Greece at the present day you
need only be an American. The money
the ammunition and the Victualing come
from America, and the Greek has only
to hear the strong vOwelled accents fall
America" They fal down then and
worship you, for you come from the
land where twenty thousand of their
countrymen are working and saving to
send money over. They send it care of
the American minister to give to Grecian-
American subjects in Athens and he, poor
diplomat, is forced TO comply.
Turkey is just as partial to Americans
or would be IL it had excuse. But, as
there are only 100 Turks in America and
only five in New York city, the sultan
reasons that you cannot have come to
his domain for any good. You bear no
money, because there are no Turks to
it. Why. then, have you come? Proba-
ably to bear that hideous Red Cross into
the battlefield and go away telling that
the sultan did not remain to tie up the last
of the enemys wounds.
Edhem Pasha hates Americans, partic-
ularly American women, and has learned
the name of Mrs. Potter Palmer and Clara
Barton since the money donation and the
visit. To try to accompany his army
would be worse than marching with the
hyenas at daybreak. His expression at the
word American" is too awful for words
My courier. a Christianized Turk, told me
that no man in Edhem Pashas army was
bold enough to carry news of an Ameri-
can traveller to him.
In every war correspondents have pene-
trated to the frontier, protected by their
flag and armed with pencil and pad The
pen is so much mightier than the sword
that you will find commanders begging
you TO ten the truth about them and kings
writing letters TO hasten your speed
through their kingdoms.
With my courier, Oliopoulou. l struck
out back of Thessaly into the mountains
Thessaly lies a plain in front of them
while the mountains lift their heads back
OF Il as though TO protect IL from the
sweeping forces of the sultan
And the Thessalian mountains win pro-
tect Thessaly-are protecting az
When ! turned my little Arabian's head
towards the first rise in the range knew
where l was going. [ was riding into the
nercest battalion Of Greeks that ever
buckled on sword or stuck a pistol In
those flaming belts OF red ana gold-into
the Battalion Of Women Warriors.
Greek women have always borne Greek
burdens. They work as men work. N ~
the peasantry IL aristocrats they live "A
life OF beauty not eXcelled by the far-fam-
ed eNclusiveness Of the sultan's harem
But there are few Greek women arlsto-
Gratis, and II Is OF the peasantry / write
When the Greeks began the war by mr.
Ing on krania the women OF Greece drop-
ped their farming implements ana strobe
TO their homes TO get ready 20 fight. Even
In that hour Of hcroism they were not for
getful OF their beauty, and not "A Greek
woman warrior left her home IN any nam
let from Athens TO the Gulf OF Aria with.
out "a change OF uniform IN her knapsack
IL was strange how the uniform got
nOised about for there are no Greek
women In the regular army. but spread
abroad IL did, ana whether they hail
from Larissa on the north. or Argus ON
the south. you know them as Greek
regulars from their short skirts ana
snow-white hlouses and their little gou-
ave Jackets Of crimson and gold
/ saw one skirmish with not a uniform
IN H. but or that you shall know later.
Up the narrow mountain path we went
the guide and ], carefully following little