The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-23

standing still and tho field to DO drawn slowly
a musical box through the black teeth. Now
they were nearly at the green margin, beyond;
over and scsmperins up tho slope. The light
was ,ovor, TOO. Some little black dots and
Of s%heiiI SIne WAS wssp thS 81 nS S%c th smV Won f T%riss PuH'
For noxt morning. the Greeks wero gone.
Gone from the line OF intrenched batteries, gone
gone from fTS limp impr tS1aS a K%iri kYno gone ra1aS and
could not DO found anywhere. Next. afternoon
night our cavalry stole mp to the intrenchments
and found them. empty. The town was garri-
sSo0 creek rec Eoi aT@y S SSd vanished. ana At Tlfe a]S SSss1sGiE;
0 onSt battery - Of horse SSSIiillSTy. Tho .n PICK;
volley from tho carbines OF one squadron
silencea them. The other squadron ADVANCED
big stone and iron bridge over the Salamvria-
hero fast, and deep, and as broad as the Thames
mite. But four horsemcn dashed across-and
the rest, you know. Town, and fortiHcations,
the Crooks had taken to their heels and lett it all.
IF thu, Greeks have yet lost a Thousand killed
In this whole war, then 1 can only say the Turks
II the Crooks have some deepleid scheme OF
drawing back TO daace-or to mako us dance
least comprehension OF tho strategical situation.
For the present there is only one possible oXpla-
nation: cowardice-rank cowardice; and ] do
not SEQ where the military consequences of the
Greek flight arc to end; They say the greater
fend the old frontier along the line OF Mount
otlhry 18th through ,nss ,hn hs9mok o, Rgt they lose T he's.
way. and their depot at Volo.
They lose everything, including honor. A
brave race may swagger; an unwarlike race
may Ilacidly confess TO cowardice. But for a
rnce of swaggerers and towards at the same time
there is no place-in Thessaly, at all events"
Another correspondent describes briefly the
blind terror which the mere name Of the Turks
inspires everywhere among the Greek popula-
ton In Thessaly. Riding after the Larissa re-
treat between volo and Velestino, he says:
ave passed through a dozen villages, in each
of which there were one or more houses on fire.
This was assuredly not the work OF the Turks,
for no troops had gone by that route; but 1t
might have been done by the villagers them
selves before leaving, by the Greek stragglers
from their army, or ~ tho Jail birds released at
Lsrissa or Volo,
I'm none of the villages had a single inhabi-
tant remained. The falsehoods invented by the
Greeks of Turkish atrocities have been the
cause Of enormous misery, distress, and loss to
the villagers Of the Thessalian plains, for, be-
lieving that they would be massacrcd as soon as
the Turks arrived, they have fed, taking with
them only what they could carry. Had
they remained behind they would have
suffered neither insult nor injury from the
Turks, whose conduct has been beyond praise.
"Agiorgics was entirely deserted. and along
the road thence to volo we did not encounter a
debris of the fugitives, enormous numbers OF
cartridges especially haying been thrown away.
a village inhabited. The people told us that we
were the first persons who had passed that day.
r, ~W srs entered ! t ths sGTn at I, 8 w S's aers t,S S1r f ar:
Turkish officials Of some kind in advance Of the
army: SOM ct the people took to their heels;
WINGED that we were English and in no way
hostile. matters settled down.
It should not fail to be noted in all the a-
counts which are given Of the wonderful for
bearance of the Turkish troops that the Sultan
has proved too much. He has furnished in this
war with the Greeks his complete condemnation
under the indictment of full responsibility for
the Armenian atrocities. His only defense, 1t
will be remembered. was that he was personally
blameless because he was unable TO control his
own troops. 1t has been demonstrated in the
past three weeks that no civilized troops in the
world are under more perfect control than these
over the Greeks. But nobody In Europe ever
gave much weight to the willy Sultan's denials.
Ave sent by cable Allen Upwards interest
i4g description of the sad flight of the Greeks
from Epirus. 1t is q pitiful story, and some
features of 1t are dwelt upon in a graphic letter
to the Pail Mall Gazette from one of Its CORE
spondents. He writes:
Tho Turks had made an attack upon the
| Greek outposts near Pentepighadia. the Greek
cavalry had fed at once without offering resist
ance, the infantry had followed its example. and
though a gallant attempt had been made by the
artillery to stand to their guns and stop the
flight of the runaway battalion, they had failed
to achieve this, and a general panic and wild
rout had been the result. The Greeks had lost
only a few men, half a dozen at the most, and a
dozen wounded. and they had saved their guns.
They had not stopped to be shot down. Taking
advantage Of the cover of the rocks and of the
darkness of tho night, they had simply run
to Filippiada, which town the escaping
soldiers, in spite of their officers orders, had set
fire to, and thence had been told to retreat to
Aria, and take up the positions occupied before
the war began. Indeed, no other order was
possible. 1t was a sad sight to watch these
beaten troops, as the dawn rose, come stumbling
in, the much-vaunted Evzones, with none of
their proud dancing gait Of the previous week.
when they passed through Arta on their way to
the front. the cavalry draggle-tailed and down.
cast, tears streaming down the faces Of tho
officers, the men sullen and slow to obey. then
the irregular trooping Of the infantry in broken
only arm that seems, in, this sad defeat. not to
have yielded to frenZied fear. 1t would not be
fair to blame ota these poor fellows SNS too much pSen rr Not
fire before this foolish war began. And the odds
against them might have disheartened the
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81 wandered with another correspondent,
while this mournful procession was passing
through the streets. into a soldiers canteen to
get a glass. Of milk. Before we could pay. a tall.
bronzed soldier lad had put down the twoPence.
OF persistent hospitality which pursue the for
thing specially touching in the naive attention.
-! walked toward the bridge and purchased a
loaf Of bread: a useful precaution. FOR nothing
could be obtained in the town a couple of hours
afterward. The long line Of refugees seemed
intending. Col. Manos could be seen hurrying
about In the neighborhood OF his headquarters
giving orders. When day arrived the inhab-
itants began to collect. panic-stricken, in the
streets. Crowds Of them fled down the high
road to Kompoti, carrying their worldly pos:
sessions on their heads. ! met one old blind
woman wandering away alone wailing., On the
street corners little knots Of people began to
collect, ~excitedly discussing the situation. A
strong feeling was being expressed against the
commanding officers. 1t was said that II Col.
Manos showed himself he would be shot. The
King was roundly abused, and the word treason
generally pronounced, Just as it was after the
Franco-German war.
I've have been betrayed by our commanding
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