Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-05-09
GREEK DEFEAT COMPLETE.
Tho Turks Have Occupied and Burned
vr..rino-The Greek Rout Nearly as Bad

r.. Turks Have Occupied and Burned
v-..-i,o The Greek Rout Nearly as Bad
a,at Tyruavo.
Athens Nav S.-The Turks have COM
rv occupied and burned Nelestlno
-.s1 o'clock Thursday evening the
s.t.. If The Greeks was complete ana
.-..r-..r0 Vo'o 0pen TO the Turks. The
r r-rr- of the warshipS on the
r.- flashing mp the mountain sides
..... me- r-.4r assistance 10 the retreat
f-- G..-.s. showing the road through
.r. intense darkness. Over a dozen
.-r.- we're abandoned and captured
t. .. Turks Two hundred wounded
soldiers were brought 20 Nolo.
IH. correspondent OF the Associated
Press IS NJ ,ae opinion that many OF
the Gre wounded soldiers were lett
ON ts field. It is impossible TO esti-
r ... number of the killed.
tf-..s received from the frontier
o'clock this afternoon are 70
r effect that Gen SmOlenskis batter
.- INV was cut in two. The left wing
-3 AlmyrOs What was LETT OF
. ghr wing came toward Nolo,
ken and demoraliZed. The retreat
the mountains was almost as bad
The panic which resulted in the
6f base from Tyrnavo TO Nolo.
scene of the more recent panic was
r and almost indeScribable. on
-fav and Friday the p0pulace fill
.a streets of VolO with their house
E goods. The peasants from the
..r-a.ng villages fled to the town
--rsfre6 chaos 20 confusion. Brigand-
became common. Five steamers
. .omrTerely filled with refugees.
Sores of caiQues carried fugiJives 10
f.. Islands.
correspondent Of the Associated
P-s ,r,.aeled in getting on the last
nat on This boar were l.SOO men,
m rl children, packed thick as
.H-s
Tho Associated Press correspondent
20 a- Chalus and from that place
GROVE r1 Athens.
-ratches received here from Dom
rf. he8dQuarterS of the Greek ar
o lv say that the Turkish cav
t r making a reconnaissance. ap-
..lr3 within two hours march or
.urs.- bur retreated on the approach
.-.. Greeks. who followed the Turkish
cavalry -7 the advance posts OF the enc
urs lines.
".-.a C1nstantine's force occupy an
- f'es through which the TURKISH
must pass when they advance
t..r those of Agorani and TiamassL
Tho Inhabitants of Dom0koS are COINS
r' ... interior.
aImral in command Of the Greek
squadron al VOlo telegraphed to-day
saving that the French and British con-
No1 accompanied by the COM
r...-s cf the French, British and ltaI-
hips. have had a conference al
'ua with Edhem Pasha the Turk
uuauder. The latter promised
.. The inhabitants aud property
t provided the Greek squadron
fraju from hOstllitieS and re-
nd range. The Greek admiral
These terms.
..a foreigners at NOlO have en-
ether ports and the town Is
.-r-v
uoDle. May S.-Before leaV-
... The Greeks opened all the prlS-
British and French consuls
The French commander 70 oC-
. town immediately. Enver Bey
- tattalionS entered the town at
.k this morning The Turks
.reajv established a system OF
STREET PATROL
F.7-s May S-The newspapers Of
published a report yesterday
effect that Volo would be declared
@ port and that the Turks,
would not occupy il.
minister for foreign affairs. NJ
-is in an interview, is quoted
rg that the powers have not
steps 20 communicate with the
ministry on the subject of inter
although he understood the
were discussing some form of
.-..ou Whether iJ would be di-
Veuu0n or simply mediation
f.ou3iS could not say. The for
. .ster also said that he knew
concerning the report that NOlo
be declared a neutral port. but.
'st if the Turks commit excesses
nat town Greece will take the meas
-5manded by the situation.
'- conclusion. NJ Skouloudis remark