The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
TURKS Ks v WERE |l R|EPUL&D
A DESPERATE ENGAGEMENT AT
REvENA, IN WHICH CREEKS
WERE VICTORIOUS.
THE MOSLEMS LOST HEAVILY
COMMANDER EDHEM PAsHA WAS
NEARLY CAPTURED-sUSPEN
AT ATHENS EXTREME.
GREEKS STILL BOMBARD|ND PREVESA
The Resistance Is Feeble-Turlxs at
Milouna Pass Fired Wildly-Aim
of the Greeks Was Good.
Goodness and Discipline
of the Turks.
creeks STILL BOMBARD|ND PREVESA

London, April 9.-(Copyrighted, 1897,
by the Associated Press 1.-The situation
on the frontier has not, according to the
latest advices received here, been mate
rally modified today. Both the Turks
and Greeks are resting from the tremen-
dous exertions of the fight Sunday. The
troops of Edhem Pasha were half dead
with fatigue and hunger when the fire
slackened last night. Most of them flung
the bare ground to sleep. The Turkish
commander-in-chief prudently decided to
allow his army to rest today. il
As details come in it becomes more and
more apparent that the fighting in Mi
louna Pass was of the most stubborn
and savage character. The Turks fought
like devils and the Greeks resisted in
the spirit of their ancestors. The most
inexplicable fact in connection with the
whole engagement is. the comparatively
small number of killed. All the special
correspondents agree to this. The Turks
appear to have fired as wildly with their
rifles at Milouna Pass as they did at
Arta, where the fighting consisted of an.
artillery duel between the rival batteries
on each side of the river, lasting about
four hours in the afternoon. There they
fred only one out of five shots with any
effect, and their batteries were soon ST.
fenced by the Greeks, whose marksman-
ship was very much superior. The Turk
ish losses at Arta are believed to have
been very heavy. On the Greek side
there was not man killed.
Later-9 d. m.-Gen. Smolenitz, eX-
minister of war, is in command of 14,OOO
Greeks at Revena, not far from Tyrna-
vo, northwest of Larissa. At this point
Edhem Pasha, closely pressed, was near
ly taken prisoner. His plan was to force
the pass at Revena,. to enter the PLAIN
of Larissa, to cut off the retreat of the
Greek army with his cavalry and thus
take Larissa without resistance. But
this plan was defeated. Gen. DemopOu-
lous, at the head of one Greek division,
forced the Turkish line at Boughazi,
close to Tyrnavo, and Gen. Mavromo-
chate broke through at koniskos. The
two generals united their troops near
Damasci.
The news of this success at Revena and
, the imminent fall of Preyesa has changed
of Milouna into the widest rejoicing.
The latest advices tonight are that
the Greek troops are advancing to re-
occupy their positions at Milouna and at
Gritzovali the latter of which, it is al
legged, was abandoned owing to. mis-
understanding by the general in, com.
mand, who interpreted as an order OF
retreat what was really lntenueu as all
order of advance.
Capt Tagarde, who was wounded at
Gritzovali, shot himself in order to avoid
falling into the hands of the Turks,
The Greeks report that the Turks lost
1000 killed and wounded at Revena, but
this estimate is probably excessive.
The Greek engineers constructed a
bridge at Pachiskalos to enable their
troops to cross the river.
1t is stated that the Turks that attack
ed Revena numbered over 10000 men.