The San Francisco call., 1897-05-19
DHOMOKO AND ITS CITADEL AS THE SOUTHEAST
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A private telegram says the TURKS have
occupied ArmyIos, but this is doubted in
official circles.
General Smolenski's brigade has re-
treated to Gardike, twelve miles south
west of the Gulf of Volo, and is destined
| thence to Stylida, where the troops will be
EN- barked in transport ships. Crown
Prince Constantine Is at Phurka Pass, ten
miles south of Dhomoko on the road
across the Othrys Mountains.
At 8 O'Clock this afternoon nothing had
been heard here of the conclusion of an
armistice. If the armistice is not pro-
nounced within two days it is the inten-
tion of the Govern ment to appeal TO the
people, calling the whole nation to arms
to rescue the fatherland.
ROME. ITALY, May 18.-The military
attache of the Italian legation in Athens
telegraphs that the battle at Dhom oko re-
suited in an irreparable loss to the Greeks,
who lost half of their artillery and had
1000 killed. The same dispatch says that
General Smolenskrs brigade was out
maneuvered and divided into two
dixie and the other to Stylida, hoping to
escape by sea.
LONDON, ENG. May 1S.-No account OF
the battle at Dhomoko from the Turkish
side has yet reached London.
Official and officially derived reports
from Athens persist in stating that the
Greek loss was only two or three hundred,
and that the retreat was effected in good
order.
Fears are expressed by the Suns COR
respondent OF big slaughter, which
| seem, however, to be well based.
The Athens correspondent of the Stand
ard, evidently suspicious of massacre,
says the public has been so often deceived
that they no longer greedily swallow
every scrap of good news that officials
vouchsafe them. The official statement
that everything was safely removed from
Dhomoko, except one heavy cannon,
seems incredible. Despite the welcome
fact of cessation of hostilities an anni-
hilation of the hopes raised by Mondays
account of great successes has caused pro.
found depression. This feeling hitherto
has been so deep that although there is
intense anger against the members of the
ministries and generals, and above all,
the Crown Prince. there is no visible ex-
element and there has been no renewal
of the demonstrations which followed the
earlier disasters. fls
The correspondent adds that the Crown
Princes persistently evasive replies to the
Government respecting the casualties
during the fighting and his assertions
that every Turkish troop was repused
with heavy loss have made the blow OF his
ultimate announcement of the retreat
from Dhomoko necessary all the heavier
The Ministers could not imagine why if
all the positions were held as the Crown
Prince reported there could be any rea-
son for evacuating position of enormous
natural strength and so strongly fortified.
They, however, telegraphed to the Crown
Prince, he being on the spot, that he must
be the best judge of the necessity of so
grave step. If he considered the saliva
ton of the army demanded retreat he
must assume the whole responsibility.
dispatch to the Daily News from
Lamia describes the battle at Dhomoko
as most desperate. Under cover of
heavy artillery FIRE from eight of the
largest caliber field batteries and two
mountain batteries the Ottoman infantry
advanced on the Greek intrenchments at
the foot of the Dhomoko hills The Greek
center and left repulsed the attack by an
apparently m murderous artillery and in
fantrv fire. The battle was hottest from
o'clock in the afternoon until dark.
Att o'clock the wheat fields in front of
the Greek trenches were strewn with the
Turkish dead. Just before sundown the
Turkish reserve infantry advanced with
flags flying and heavily charged the Greek