The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-26


some in line. they swarmca blaokly down the
beast. The Turks held their position, though
OF ammpnition. The Crooks had ~plenty-.another
gift of the railway. SO, as the shadows began to
that no had some 8,60O men spread over a front
Of sly miles or SO, and began to draw them In;
they aid not succeed in fiyurryiner the operation.
Slowly, reluctantly. but always with tho calm
bearing OF conscious superiority. the Turks rc-
treated to Gcrli. Tho Greeks made no attempt
.stratesically they were victorious. We tried
operation impossible with such a forcc-and
failed; But spiritually l never saw ANYTHING
less mo,n like " beaten army than the Turks this
marching out to their positions before tho vii.
lage, composed. alert. and trim. but not to tho
part Of the uniform OF somo Greek regiment. and
oil quite ready to look for tho rest Of tho suit.
morning reinforcemonts came in; at their head
Haiku Pasha, who took Larissa-short, stout,
SsfEs nut fo to G Thst sSS% of ' SiyI EsSnl'! 4Sen T Saiisl,
ion on battalion, till there was a brigade; then
guns crawl smoothly and relentlossly through
the dust; then my eye lit on Eunus Effondi, who
has probably had more press notices than any.
body in tho Turkish army. I have described
was In omman Mt tho Miiouna blockhouse, and
who Srn,, TO The h", Sstonnishment Of his many friends
with his Keen eve measurinS the distance to thc,
Greek hills, %striding out elastically as though
eighteen miles were a before breakfast nppeti-
ger: Eunus Effendi appears 70 belong TO no spe-
attaches himself to any corps that seems to him
whether he has an Independent command or falls
into the line with his captured Greek rifle
The correspondent Of tho Chronicle at Patras
gives a description of the hospital facilities of
the Turks and Greeks in contrast. He says:
Hospitals, like health In general, are inter
esting to everybody, and when, in the early days
Of triumph, l first went to Flippiada, about
ton miles out in Turkish territory, the first thing
l visited was not the burning town. nor tho plum
derod residence Of the Boy, but a miserable
building whore the Turks in their flight had left
their sick. The wretchcd creatures were curled
up ON the floor In the various angles of the
rooms. two OF them dying. the rest expecting, as
u matter Of course, to DO murdered.
One of the greatest difficulties of the Greek
nurses is to induce Turkish prisoners or wound
cd to drink water, which they suppose must
needs be poisoned. and all were pervaded by n
peculiarly infldel smell. Turkish patients al
ways struggle to rise when u visitor enters, and
they salute him by laying their hands upon their
| hearts, their mouths, and their foreheads. But
when one reflects that what they really want
to do IL to cut Off his nose and tongue and
then slit his windpipe with a knife, the ro-
nance Of the obeisance is diminished. As
q rule, however. they make model patients;
they lie perfectly still. they never ask for
anything. though they try to rub their
forchesds on tho ground IL you give them
tobacco, and during the most frightful suffering
they keep fixed upon you the sam silent, i'm
movable gaze. That look of theirs is like the
stare OF some unearthly wild animal. 1t is quito
inhuman and emotionless. 1t is impossible to
analyze Its mixture Of aloofncss. terror, and hate.
l saw one Turk, in another hospital, whose thigh
bone had been shattered by II bullet. During the
probing and dressing he never moved or groaned.
and never took his eyes Off me for an instant,
nor changed that incomprehcnsible expression
Several English Red Cross nurses are now
installed at the Greek hospitals. or the skill
and attention. OF the surgeons they speak with
highly OF the Greeks silence and endurance
me. for / have found the Greek. like most win.
ming and pleasant people. rather ready to ex.
claim I n, and eiT nrs5sss his st em Ss@pin espf fSsm S %hen
like us disagrecable Englishmen., But the
nurses evidence, was absolute and valuable.
What the wounded think OF them / could not
we'll ask. but / tried to imagine the sense OF con.
trast in tho mind of a Turkish patient, or for
as he watches them moving about so freely and
unabashcd in their, clean caps and blue gowns
menbcrs bis own Door women at home in their
rags and dirt and servility;
~ have seen many other forms OF wound.
some of them very strange. One man was shot
transverscly through both hips at the bridge Of
Artn. The wound Itself gives him no pain. but
he suffers agony below the right knee. Another,
n nero boy, had his cheek slit by a bullet from
nose to ear ut Pentepighadia; In another case the
bullet entered the mouth. which must have been
open. and made its way out at the top Of tho
shoulde. blade. An Andarti was shot through
both jaws close beside me when the Turks began
their attack on our right. at PcntepiRahdia. but
his only complaint now Is that he cannot get
enough to eat. In one ward l found the officer
who had urged me not to go on up the pass at
the same place for fear Of exposing "a phil.
shot in the thigh. And so the list of strange ac-
cidents and escapes might be carried on. But as
and wounded in this district has not really been
large" II. r. c.