The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-04-22
SEVERE FIGHTING
DISASTROUSCONFLICT BETWEEN IN.
SURGENTS AND TURKS.
Greeks Win One Fight and Lose
Another-Refugcs state That; Sew
craI Hundred Turks Were Killed
I'm Oae Encounter--Chicf BrOufas
organizing an Invasion of the
ChnIcidikc PcninsuIn.

Copyright. 1897. Associated Press
Larissa. Headquarters of the Greek
Army in Thessaly. ATril Il. - Severe
fighting has occurred i'm Macedonia be-
tween the Greek irregularS and Turk
iSh forces. The column OF irrcgulars
sent to the right from P~ilgavitza. after
having invested and captured SitovOn,
continued it's advance toward KriturcS,
Plisia and Kourduzi. with orders to
hold the hitter mt I'LL costs. as it com
mands the right approach 10 Grevcna,
the objective point. This column, com
manded 10y Chiefs Xermos and LuzzO.
attacked FIXTURES on Tuesday. The
place was defended by two companies
of Turks. After a severe fight. during
which eighty Turks We're killed and
twenty-five were taken prisoner. the
position was captured by the Greeks.
who also obtained possession of 40
rifles aid Il quantity Of cartridges. The
insurgents. however. have suffered a
severe check i'm another dirc"+iGu. A
strong force of Turkish troops from
MCGOWAN. with u number of mountain
guns. advanced on Krauia which had
previously been captured 10y the
Greeks. and attacked the 400 irregu-
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trenched position. 1t is reported that
the fighting was ferOciOus on both
sides. The insurgents were eventually
compelled 10 retreat north to the ON
tainS. Some of them. however, sue
cpedcd in breaking through the Turk
ish lines and escaped to RaltiuO. the
town just across the frontier, in Mace
donna. first captured by the Greek IT.
regulars ana used 10y them MS IA depot
for provisions ana ammunition. The
accounts given by the refugees of the.
Turkish losses ar, believed 10 he cXag-
geratcd. They say that 265 Turks
were killed. while tn" ~irrcgulars only
had eight men killed ard seventeen
wounded. The leader Of the Greeks
operating in that direction. Chief Mi
lOnas. was amOng the wounded. and re-
turned later into Greek territory with
a number Of the refugees. One Of the
latter says that a portion of the Turk
iSh force was composed of irregularS
whose dress resembles that of the
Greek insurgents. This. it appears, en-
ablcd the Turkish force TO execute II
flank movement UNDECIDED by the lead
crS Of the Greeks.
o
u. M ~ 49,
who vas the soul Of the Macedonian
rising last year. and upon whose head
Turkey set n price of 1000 francs, and
who was supposed to be dead. has re-
appeared. He is now organizing an
invasion of the ChaIcidike peninsula
with a view of diverting the Turkish
army from Macedonia. He has a
scmblod 200 members of the Ethnike
Hetaria and embarked them Oh a
couple Ct steamers which were to
leave the gulf Of NOlO on Wednesday
last for the coast of Chalcidike, there
to raise instruction. \ Turk who was
POSING as the correspondent of the
Journal de st. Petersburg. has been ar
rested here as q spy. Another fight is
reported across the frontier. II is said
that the Turks lost fifty killed and a
small number OF prisoners. A Turkish
corporal eight soldiers who were cap
tured by the invaders have arrived At
ErgaStcria. to which point they were
sent ny the ordc; Of the Crown Primo"
Constantine. where they were released
after being disarned. The appearance
of the Turks has excited great curl
osity but they have not been moleStcd.
There are thirty other Turkish Prison
erS still remaining at NOlo.
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Canea. April II. The foreign ad-
miralS have. offered to Col. NasSOS any
medical and surgical assistance. he
RAY require for the wounded in his
camp. Typhus fever and smallpox are
raging at IIIcrap2trl. The Turkish
troops have ~rcOccupicd the Springs
near Gambia. \. number of prisoners
here have reyOltcd and are being trans
ported IL the prison on the Island of
Rhodes.
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