The Butler weekly times., 1897-04-22
GREEKS BADLY BEATEN.
Turkish Victory at Mi|ouna
Pass is Complete.
G GKEEkS DRIVEN LIKECHAFF
Loss to Both Sides Reported to be
Twenty Thousand.
TURKS ADVANCE ON LARISSA.
;KEEkS DRIVEN LlKECHAFF
TURKS ADVANCE on LARISSA.
Greeks Go Down Before the Opposition at
Tyrnano AIso.-FinaI Fight Ex-
pected Soon.

Milouna Pass, April 2O.-The
Turkish victory of yesterday in the
Milouna Pass was complete The
bloody fight began oD Saturday
evening aud had for its scene
series of hills. varying in height,
some of them densely covered with
brush wood and others comparative
ly bare.
The morning broke delightfully."-
fine, the sky cloudless and the sun
pouring down. perhaps too genial
heat. At the base OF the opposing
hills stretched away into the far
distance, where two long lines of
smoke, showing where the fire was
in progress. The wind was not
strong enough to scatter this smoke
which seemed at every moment to
grow denser and heavier. The din
of the firing was almost deafening.
The fight became intensified as the
day grew and the clearer light en-
abled the antagonistic positions to
be more clearly discerned.
The Turks pulled up the top of
the hill three mountain batteries,
singing, laughing and weeping with
Joy like children One battery open
ed fire upon the Greeks who were
retreatlng On the plains of Traves
and did terrible execution.
Very early in the morning the
Greeks. with splendid bravery,
charged the Turks and took posses
sioa of the hill tops stretched below
the peaks, and the Turks cheered on
by their officers, who led them mag
Efficiently, charged the Greeks with
the cold steel. An awful scene Of
blood shed and carnage ensued One
could see struggling masses of men
the CLINT Of steel az the bayonet
swept through the air, the flash of
revolvers and the raised butt end of
rifles doing their dreadful clubbing
work. The final struggle was brief
though appallingly deadly. The
Greeks, fighting to the last, were
swept back by the impetuous out
slaught OF the Turks and the hill
tops were again in possesson OF the
invaders
Toward 6 a. m, Marshal Edhim
Pasha advanced toward the fighting
line with five battalions of the re
serve, A strong force of cavalry
covered the fanks of the infantry,
who marched over the yellow fields,
with shouts Of enthus asm. Marshal
Edhim Pasha took up his post face
to face with the line of hills to the
left of Milo Una, which was where
the Greeks were in strongest force
The marshal sat down on the
ground Turkish fashion, looking as
cool and unconcerned as the most
disinterestsd of the spectators The
Greeks still fought hard and the
Turks pressed them vigorously.
The arid slopes of the hill were
whitened with puffs of smoke as tie
duel proceeded. About s o'clock,
when the day seemed to have lasted
a whole week, the Turkish field ar
tillery came into action under com
mand of Riaz Pasha.
Owing to the difficult nature of
che ground Riaz could not app, oach
the hills, which the Greeks wer.
holding nearer than two miles and a
but at this great range sheels were
dropped with the greatest precision
into places where the Greeks were
strongest For the time being all
intere st was concentrated upon the
work of Riaz Pasha's guns. As shell
after shell shrieked its way through
the air to the hills, three miles off.
the effect of the shelling was evident
The Greek rife fire diminished,
and as evidence of the tremendous
destruction and demoralization the
shells wrought at many places with
in the Greek position, there was an
absolute cessation OF firing After a
shell or two had dropped, the shells
had either killed the Greeks or driv
en- them panic stricken away.
At $50 o'clock ths principal posi-
tions of the Greek side had either
been taken by storm or evacuated.
One important hilltop alone re
mained in possession of the Greeks.
At 5 o'clock Edhim Pasha had prac
tically taken the pass after heavy
lighting.
The Turkish army did tremendous
execution during the later stages oi
the battle, firing with marvellous pre-
cision and the most deadly effect.
The Greeks persistently. and with
splendid courage, attacked three
Turkish block houses around which
the battle centered, but were On
each occasion steadily repulsed. This
Turkish rifle fire was very deadly.
At length the Greeks desisted from
their attack on the block houses and
fell back sullenly into their entrepcb.