The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-05-14

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been the flash signals on the heights,
which were interpreted to mean that
these positions. were being taken by
lue TURKS. simultaneously The cry
was raised that the Turkish cavalry
We're advancing. In the darkness it
was impossible to distinguish friend
from foe.
1.-The first fugitives from the front
arrived at Larissa about l o'clock in
the morning, when everybody was in
bed. The new spread and SOON the
whole town was in movement, every
body packing his goods and chattcls
and preparing to flee from the doomed
city, which, once delivered into their
hands, would be speedily sacked by
the bloodthirsty Bashi- Bazouks.
EARLY in the morning Crown Prince
Constantine and his staff left for Phar
sala. But this incident made much
less impression thar might have been
expected. BY this time a large crowd
had assembled at the railway station
in the hope of getting away by the
early train, but most of them gradu-
ally convinced themselves that this
way of exit was hopeless, and went to
seek other means"
When the Turkish army occupied
Larissa, the peace was not disturbed
in a single quarter Of the town. AS an
instance of the strictness of the orders
against pillage, a Turkish soldier who
too a shirt from an abandoned, half
closed store, was seized by a patrol
and arrested. Practically the whole
Greek population fed from the town.
1t is stated here hat when Crown
Prince Constantine, the Greek COM
mander-in-chief, begged the Greeks to
remain and face the enemy they act
ually jeered at him as they refused to
face the enemy again.
The Greek soldiers are furious at the
Ethnike Hetairia, the Greek national
league. They seized all the members
of that organization they could find,
saying: 1T is you who have brought
all this misfortune on u.s.
The Greek prisoners are we'll treated
by the Turks.
POWERS READY TO MEDIATE
PARIS, April 29.-The following
semi-othcial announcement was made
to-day: pour parlers between Paris,
London, Rome and St. PETERSBURG.
with the view of attempting media
ton between Turkey and Greece have
been very active and are now assum-
ing more precise form. 1t is hoped
that the opportunity to mediate will
arise before long. Germany and Aus
tria are kept informed Of the progress
of the negotiations and do not disap-
prove of them"
BUDA PEsrH April, 90. In the
lower house of the Hungarian diet to-
day Count Apponi, the opposition
leader, interpellated the premier, Baron
Ranffy, as to whether, if the territor-
ial status quo and the granting Of
autonomy to Crete were the guiding
principles ~animating the powers, the
moment had not arrived to lend the
aimless and politically detrimental
war" and whether the object Of
Emperor Francis Joseph's visit to St.
Petersburg is to ''modify the condi-
tions of our alliances, or without
nooi1y1ng Cneln conclude an arrange
ment with Russia on the Eastern
question:"
TURKS SUFFER A DEFEAT.
LONDON, April ga special dis.
patch from Volo, the port Of Thessaly,
announces that the Turkish advance
forces attacked the Greeks at Veles-
tino, about eight miles west of Volo,
and on the railroad connecting the lat
ter place with Larissa and Pharsala,
but were repulsed with heavy losses
and driven back.
General S~molenski, on hearing of
the attack upon Velestino, made a
sortie from Pharsala in order to sup
port the Greek forces at Velestino.