The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-20
1HE WAR IN THE FAST
Turks Re pulsed at Reveni Pass ---MussImans Report ed to Have Lost ThouS-
 andS in the Battle.
GREEK LOSS VERY SLIGHT
EDHEM PASHA, TEE TURKISH LEADER, NEARLY CAPTURED.

EDHEM PASHA, TEE TURKISH
 LEADER, NEARLY CAPTURED. Moslems Made an Attempt to Capture
 Larissa, but Were Driven Back-In an
 Artillery Duel Between the Opposing
 Forces the Greeks Show Superior Marks
 manship--The Powers Remain Inactive
 France Declares Policy of Non-Inter-
 vention-Salisbury Confers With Queen
 yictoria-The Greeks Will Attempt to
 Recapture Milouna Pass.
 London, April 19--In spite of the fact that hostilities on the Greek frontier have caused but little excitement here, communications have been in progress all day long between the foreign offices and Rome, France and Athens. It is reported tonight that among the other matters considered was the expediency of ordering the international fleets to leave Cretan waters and to go in the direction of Salonica and the Darda- nelles to watch the fighting with a view to localizing 1t if necessary by naval in- tervention. Should this suggestion, which is understood to emanate from the Italian foreign office, be acted upon it is probable that only half the fleet of foreign warships would be with drawn for such a purpose, the other half remaining to continue the Cretan blockade.
 There is said to be a sharp difference of opinion between the military powers, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Germa- ny, and the maritime powers, Great Britain, France and Italy, as to the most expedient and least violent meth ods of compelling cessation of hostili- ties, should this result not be reached by the exercise of diplomatic pressure at Athens and Constantinople.
 The likelihood is that the force to be employed by Europe, if a resort to force becomes necessary, would be by sea, as the contingencies of military interven- tion might be more serious than the hostilities now in progress.
 It is reported at the foreign office that the communications received here to-day from the Marquis of Salisbury, after his interview with Queen Victoria at Nice, support the theory that the British government Is using it's utmost energy to persuade both the combat ants to make cessation of the con- flict at the stage which it has now reached
 M. Hanotaux, who received the Greek minister to France to-day is under stood to have assured him that while France could not tolerate the indefinite prolongation of war, and would never consent to any essential modification of the existing territories of Greece and Turkey, she would continue for the present her policy of non-intervention, except so far as intervention might be necessary to prevent the spread of the contest to other combatants.
 The situation on the frontier has not, according to the latest advices, been materially changed to-day. Both the Turks and Greeks are resting from the tremendous axertions of Friday, Satur- day and Sunday. The troops of Edhem Pasha were half dead with fatigue and hunger when the firing slacked up last night. The Turkish commander-in- chief prudently decided to allow his army to rest to-day.
 As details come in 1t becomes more and more apparent that the fighting in Milouna pass was of the most stubborn and savage character. The Turks fought like devils, and the Greeks re- sisted in the spirit of their ancestors. The most inexplicable fact in connec- tion with the whole engagement is the comparatively small number of killed. All the special correspondents agree as to this The Turks appeared to have fired as wildly with their rifles at Mi louna pass as they did at Marti, where the fighting consisted of an artillery duel between the rival batteries on each side of the river, lasting about four hours, yesterday afternoon. There they fired only one out of five shots with any effect. and their batteries were soon silenced by the Greeks, whose marks manship was very much superior.
 The Turkish losses at Arta are be- lieved to have been very heavy. On the Greek side there was not a man killed.
 Later-9 D. m.-General Smolenitz, ex- minister or war, IS III COHlllldIlu OL l4 VUU Greeks at Reveni, not far from Tyrani. At this point Edhem Pasha, closely pressed was nearly taken prisoner. His plan was to force the pass of Reveni to enter the plain of Larissa, to cut off the retreat of the Greek army with his cav airy, and thus to take Larissa. But this plan was defeated. General Demo- poulos, at the head of one Greek divis- ion, forced the Turkish line at Bougha- zi The two generals united their troops near Damasi
 The news of this success at Reveni, and of the imminent fall of Prevesa, has changed the dismay caused at Ath- ems by the loss of Milouna into the widest rejoicing. The latest advices tonight are that the Greek troops are advancing to re-occupy their positions at Milouna and at Gritzovali, the latter of which, it is alleged, was abandoned owing to a misunderstanding by the general in command, who interpreted as an order of retreat what was really intended as an order to advance
 Captain Tagarde, who was wounded