The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-05-04
GREEKS P~ANIC-STRICKEN.
BEGGED By THE CROWN PRINCE
10 AGAIN FACE THE ENEMY.

They Jeer Him and Then . Stampede En-.
sues-Orderly ond Of he Turkish
Soldiers In LArisss- Looting by Greek Ir.
regulars-Cneasy Feeling In Athena
Great Excite 1t OF the P~opulsce-Sixns
Of . MISUNDERSTANDING in Epirus-
headquarters OF the Turkish Army.
In Thessaly. Larissa. April e7.-The cor
respondent Of the Associated Press with
the Turkish army here never saw such
perfect discipline as when the vic-o-
rlous Turks occupied Larissa. The
peace was not disturbed in a single
quarter OF the town. AS an instance OF
the strictness Of the orders against pill
iage, the correspondent has lust seen
a turkish soldier who took a shirt from
an abandoned, half clothed store seizaa
by a patrol and arrested. Several ca fes
are already doing business. Practically
the whole Greek population fled from
the town One of the few persons who
remained informed the ~rresponde
tnat there was a continual exodus
throughout Saturday. Only a number
or volunteers remained who. the mo-
ihenl the regular troops had gone. be-
gan pillaging the stores and also liber-
ated the criminals from the jail. The
released prisoners Joined in the footing
and the volunteers afterward began
10 shoot the Mussulmans, who through
out the preceding week had been mall
treated by the Greeks enc they
appeared on the streets.
1t Is stated here hat before the
creeks fled Prince Constantine. the
Greek commander-in-chief. begged
them to remain and face the enemy:
but they refused and a regular .suave
qul peut' ensued. The Greek soldiers
actually jeered at the crown prince as
they refused to face the enemy again.
The Greek soldiers are furious at the
Ethnike Hetairia, the Greek National
League. They seized all the members
or that organization they could find.
saying: 1T is 0 who have brought
all this misfortune on u.s."
The Greek prisoners are we'll treated
by the Turks and a Greek officer. who
was seen by the correspondent had
been supplied with coffee and ciga-
rettes. He remarked to the correspond
emit: w We're always told the Turks
were barbarianS; but / should like
to See more Of this sort Of barbarity
among our own people"
A Greek paper published here, of
which the correspondent procured a
copy, is full of the most gross misrep-
reservations. At the m the Turks
were entering the plain of Thessaly. it
announced that the Turks were in full
retreat and that the Greeks would die
to the last man before they would al
low a single Turk to enter Greece. The
Turks have sealed UP all the banks,
business houses and other places con-
tanning money or other and
have placed armed guards over them
Athens, April 27.-An extraordinary
session of the boule, or legislative as
sembly, was called for this afternoon
In the absence of a quorum, however
the meeting was postponed until IL
o'clock tomorrow morning. A MAORI.
ty of deputies have signed a manifesto
eXhOrting the people to be calm. New.
ertheless, there were gatherings in va
rious parts of the city and especially
On the square in FIR mt of the palace
where M. Ralli and the other leaders
of the opposition were comforting with
the king.
After the conference a reporter of the
Associated Press had an interview with
NJ. Stouloudis. one of the opposition
leaders. He said the leaders of the OPP.
position had impressed the king with
the fact that it was his first duty to or.
game the creek forces. 10 TINS the king
had assented. The leaders also point.
ed out that a new ministry must be &
product of a vote taken in the legis.
lative assembly.
The newspaper organ Of NJ. Rail
says that the meeting of the Legislative
assembly is the result Of a conference
Of the leaders of the OppOsitionists, SO.
~tiropoulo, Ralli, MopOulo, Stouloudis
and CarapanOs, with the king and his
ministers. These leaders pointed gu
the necessity of preserving order and
as a necessary measure to meet The
danger urged the immediate assembly
of the legislative assmebly to decide
upon a probable solution. The king
and his ministers consented to this.
st. Petersburg, April lin pOlitica
circles here, pleasure is experienced a
the defeat of the Greeks, as it is LOOKED
upon as calculated to avert dangerou,
complications in the Balkans, whicl