The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-21
INDIANAPOLIS MORNING

Greeks a mile or two away. With the aid
of field glasses the shells could be seen to
cut down a score of the enemy at each ex-
plosion.
After occupying the heights about Tyr
nava the Turks began shellng the town
with the avowed intention of destroying it
and then proceeding to Larisso. Advices
from Milouna pass, dated last evening, an
nounced the bombardment of Tyrnava. The
dispatch also said 'All the roads leading
to Larissa are crowded with fugitives.
shouting reserves. don't try conclusions
with the Turks The Greek villages in the
plain are completely deserted" 1t was re-
ported through Turkish sources last night
that Tyrnava had been evacuated and that
the Moslem army about TO knock at
the gates Of Larissa, but the report lacks
confirmation and is denied at Athens.
GREEKS BADLY SCARED.
That the gravity of the situation is fully
realized by the Greeks is apparent by the
tenor of the advices received from Athens
yesterday. All the members of the gendar-
merle and other police and military organ
izations are now going to the frontier. The
citizens of Athens have volunteered to
guard the city, The same conditions pre-
vail in all the other towns of Greece. On
all sides there is a firm determination to
meet the Turkish invasion and every man
who can be spared and who can bear arms
is going to the front. Even the women are
doing their share. The ladies of Athens,
under the patronage of the Queen, have
converted the steamer Thessaly into
floating hospital. Three hundred beds for
the wounded have been fitted on board the
steamer. and she is now proceeding to Volo.
At Larissa the mayor has issued a proca-
nation calling all citizens to arm them
selves in defense of the country. Every
step possible is being taken to defend La
rissa against the Turks. The minister of
the interior has issued orders to the pre-
fects throughout the country calling on
them to summon all citizens to arms in de-
DAMASI BURNED BY GREEKS
While the Turks were concentrating their
efforts to reach Larissa yesterday the
Greeks were not idle elsewhere according
to advices from Athens. A dispatch dated
midnight says News has just reached
here that the Greeks, after a desperate bat
| tie, have captured and burned Damasi
| Viglia is still resisting. Another division of
the Greek troops, it is reported, have
| traversed the Reveni pass and captured
| three blockhouses. This division has al
most reached Damasi, where it will effect
a union with the force that captured the
| town. The twenty thousand troops under
General Smolenitz displayed the greatest
| bravery. Reveni lies twelve miles northwest
| of Larissa. Edhem Pasha, with a force
variously estimated at from ten thousand
TO fourteen thousand troops, led seven as
saults against it yesterday, but all were
repulsed by Tire Greeks. Crown Prince Con-
stantine has telegraphed here that the
| Turks at that point were completely and
| finally repulsed.
| ''In Athens greater attention has been
| paid to the operations in the neighborhood
| of Reveni than to those at Milouna pass.
| The theory all along has been that If the
| Greeks could establish themselves at Da-
masi their road would lie open to Elassona
| The exact situation at Tyrnavo is some
what in doubt. The news from that point
| is conflicting But there is no confirmation
| of the rumor that the place has been cap
| tured by the Turks. What seems to have
happened is that Tyrnavo was evacuated in
| order to send troops forward TO Reveni and
was then reoccupied by troops returning
from Milouna.''
| Another dispatch from Athens dated /
| o'clock this morning says: 'The report of
! the capture of Damasi by the Greeks under
| Gen. Smolenitz is confirmed by official dis
patches. Official dispatches report also that
further heavy breaches have been made
| in Turkish forts at Prevesa. The lombard
ment ceased at nightfal, but will be re-
sumed this morning wednesday, The IRON
| clad Spetzia has left the Gulf of Arta to
| join the eastern squadron, which, it is said
| has an important mission"