San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-20
TERRIBLE WAR RAGING.
TURKS AND GREEKS BLOODY WORK
YESTERDAY.
Battlefield Covered With The Slain on
Both Sides In Large Numbers
Many Were Wounded,

TINS morning puDllSheS dlSpatch sent |
by the special correspondent of the |
London Daily Mail to his paper from |
Milouna Pass, Thessally, describing
the Greece Turkish battle. The dis
patch follows:
Milouna Pass, Thessally, April is, 9
p.m.-The bloody fight at this pass be-
gan last evening at p. IN. and is still
in progress. The battle has for it's
scene a series of hills varying in height
some of them densely covered with
brushwood and others comparatively
bare
The morning broke DELIGHTFULLY."- fine,
| the sky cloudless and the sun pour
ing down a genial heat. The base of
the opposing hills stretch away into
| the far distance were two long lines
of smoke show the fight is in progress.
The wind is not strong enough to scat
| ter the smoke which, from where l
stand at the, head of the pass, seems
| every moment to grow denser and
| heavier.
The din of firing is almost deafening.
The fight became intensified as the day
grew and the clearer light enabled the
l
clearly discerned
| Very early in the morning the Greeks
with splendid bravery charged the
Turks and took possession of the hill
| tops stretching below the peaks and
the Turks, recovering from their mo-
| mentary check, and Cheered on by
their officers who led their men magni-
| ficently, charged the Greeks with the
cold steel. An awful scene of blood
shed and carnage ensued. Through
my glasses l could see struggling mas
scs of men, the glitter of steel as the
hayonets swept through the air, the
flash of revolvers and the raised butt
end of rifles doing their deadly work.
The Greeks, fighting to the last, were
swept back by the impetus onslaught
of the Turks and the hilltOps were
again in possession of the invaders.
Towards a. m. Marshal Edhem
Pasha advanced towards the fighting
line with five battalions of the re-
serves. A strong force of cavalry
covered the TANKS of the infantry who
marched over the yellow fields with
shouts. Marshal Edhem Pasha took
up his post face to face with the line
of hills to the left of AIelOuna which
was where the Greeks we've in strong
est force.
cannot omit mentioning that the
marshal sat down on the ground Tur-
kish fashion looking as cool and uncOn-
cerned as the most disinterested of the
spectators. The Greeks still fought
hard and the Turks pressed them Wig
orously.
The arid slopes of the hills were
whitened with puffs of smoke as the
duel proceeded. About 10 o'clock
when the day, to my mind, seemed to
have lasted a whole week, the Turkish
field artillery came into action under
command of Riaz Pasha.
Owing to the difficult nature of the
ground Riaz could not approach the
hills which the Greeks were holding,
nearer than 219 miles, but at this great
range shells were dropped with the mic
est precision into places where the
Greeks were the strongest.
For the time being all interest was
concentrated upon the work of Riaz
Pashas guns. Shell after shell
shriked on their way through the air
three miles off, the effect of the shell
ling was evident.
The Greek rifle fire diminished and
noticed that through the destruction
and decentralization wrought by the
shells of the Turks that at many plac-
es in the Greek position there was an
absolute cessation of firing. After a
shell or two had dropped they had Ell
Their killed the Greeks or driven them
panic stricken away.
At half past o'clock the principal
SfH no
either taken by storm or evacuated.
One important hilltop alone remained
in possession of the Greeks. At
5. o'clock Edhem Pasha had practical
" taken the pass after heavy fighting
which, toward the end. however, slack
ened in intensity on the Greek side.
The Turkish army did tremendous
execution during the latter stages of
the battle firing with marvellous pre-
cision and the most deadly effect. The
Greeks persistently and with splend-
id courage attacked three Turkish
block houses on which the battle CEN
tered, but were on each occasion
steadily repulsed.
The Turkish rifle fire vas very dead
". At 10 o'clock the Greeks desisted
! from their attack on the block houses
and fell back suddenly into entrnech-
ed positions. There they practically
recommended the fight, touring a hail
of bullets upon the Turkish positions.
However, the renewal of the battle did
not last very long and by degrees the
fusilade from both sides diminished.
| The Turkish troops are half dead
from fatigue, having neither eaten or
slept for "a hours. The reserves are
| NH,a