The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-19
FINAL RESORT TO ARMS
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(Contlnued from First Page) gatch Their design is evidently to cut the railway line to Salonica. Turkish troops have been sent in pursuit and there has been fighting, but the result Is not known here.
 Athens, April IS, il a. m.-The Turk ish batteries at Prevesa, on the north shore of the entrance of the Gulf of Arta, where, according to the treaty of Berlin, the Turks had not no right to erect Notifications, fired on and sank Greek steamer the Macedonia, this morning while she was attempting to leave the Gulf of Ambracia. The crew of the steamer were saved by boats from the shore, but the captain of the Macedonia was severely wounded.
 Upon receipt of this news the Greek government sent orders to the Greek fleet In the Gulf of Ambracia to bom- bard Prevesa. Consequently the bonn bardment of Prevesa commenced at 6 o'clock this morning and continues as this dispatch is sent. Prevesa, which is In Epirus and eighteen miles from Afta, IS strongly IorllHeu'
 The Turkish minister here has asked for his passports, they have been hand ed to him and he has left Athens for Constantinople. The German minister at Athens, Baron Von Plesson, has un- dertaken to protect Turkish interests in Greece during the severance of dip lomatic relations between the two coun- tries.
 The Greek minister at Constantine pie. Prince Mavrocordato, has been re- called
 Throughout the day there were scenes of extraordinary excitement here. The streets were crowded with people, eag- erly discussing the outbreak of war and its probable outcome. The general feel ing was one of satisfaction at the relief from the irritating tension of the past few weeks, which had gradually be- come almost unendurable and which is ended at last by overt acts, it is claim cd here, upon the part of Turkey.
 The Greeks hold that it was an at- tempt upon the part of the Turkish forces to occupy a strategic position near Mount Analipsis, not far from Mezeros, in the neutral zone, which led to the encounter on Friday between the Greeks and the Turks. This, it is ad. ded, was used at Constantinople as a reason for ordering Edhem Pasha, the Turkish commander-in-c chief to assume the offensive and led to the rupture of diplomatic relations between the coun- 1 tries.
 The so-called outrage off Prevosa this morning, when the Turkish batteries there sank the Greek steamer Macedo- mia further justified Greece, in the minds of the Athenians in waging war 1 to the death against Turkey.
 The Greek king is warmly commend 1 ed for recalling the Greek minister at Constantihople.
 l It is stated in some quarters that Assim Bey the Turkish minister to l Greece, did not wait for his passports i to be handed to him, but, so soon as he received the sum of 5000 francs. tele- graphed to him from Constantinople / through the Athenian bank for travel ' ing expenses, etc, he hastily quilted i this city.
 Little news of a. reliable nature has been received here or allowed to leak | out, regarding what has really trans pired on the frontier. IL Is known, how ever, that the whole frontier of Thes- sally has been blazing with murderous firing since early this morning and that | the Greeks have captured a fortified position at Menexes in Macedonia. According to the general understand i ing here the Turkish plan of campaign is a concentration of the Turks near the | Greek frontier town of Tyrnias with a view Of forcing the mountain passes | leading toward Larissa. One report, which is generally credited, has 1t that Edhem Pasha, at the head of 12,000 men, l has already begun this movement, and rumors in this respect are flying the substance of them being that the battle which is expected to be fought at or near Tyrnais has already commenced.
 The Greek plan of campaign, so far
 as it is understood by the Athenians, Is founded on the defence of Larissa In the first instance, an attack upon that place having been anticipated and pre-
 pared for by occupying and taking everypossible advantage of all strategic points. The country there is admirably suited for defence and, while this de- fence is undertaken, the Greek fleet is relied on to destroy the coast ports of
 Epirus and Macedonia. The Greek
 belief in ultimate success is based on the expectation of universal rising of the Macedonians and Epirotes, so soon as the Greeks succeed in winning
 a brilliant victory anywhere, over the Turks