The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-09
burst every tImo in the right .pot-two mIles

,tnBnt presently, II I may say so, the battle of
When Charley gave his Excellency Field Marshal
l sS;sTs came OUT ana lined the roadside as L .
bearded sons of the Prophet went so far as to put
up " sunshades. The fighting became Oriental or
the enemy. but a logged firing behind .coycr. till
man dropped. 1t became a kind OF picnic bat
and take them In TO Eiassona and give them of.
In tho end our side took ali the Greek block
ppay0net;, 80 far so good. There will be another
pnn OF Miiouna tomorrow. Tomorrow we
may bivouao In Thossaly."
Mr.. Stevens has left little to be desired in de-
scribing the picturesque features Of tho first
three days fighting. For a more serious and dig
nifed description-and entertaining, too, withal
the correspondent of tho Times with the Turk
ish forces supplies tho best that has come to
hand. 1t is so clear and comprehensive that 1
quote from 1t at some length. He writes:
The battle Of Milouna has been fought and
won, and, though no one who saw 1t would ever
venture to say that tho Greeks did not do well
and bravcly. tho Turks have undoubtedly proved
themselves the better soldiers, for they arc UNI
civilized enough to be ignorant Of fear, and they
know no end to fighting but victory.
1T Is extremely difficult in this campaign TO
separate events or say exactly when and where
one battle ends and another begins. Generals
respect the theory of war very little, but bat
talions are as ignorant as they arc careless of its
laws. An artillery duel Of o kind commenced
on Saturday night about @ o'clock, but 1t
was soon supplemented by infantry, and the
whole idea of the battle was to struggle for a
few objective points, of which the Milouna and
Skumpa coils were the most important. Prao-
tically, then, these are the two ends of the line of
hills that form, thu aaatarn boundary NJ fha
plain Of Elassona, which town Is some six miles
to the west Of the former pass. Below and be-
yond Skumpa to the southeast lies Turnavo, one
OF the Greek fortified posts, and eight miles be-
yond that, in the same direction, one can sec
Larissa- At Skumpa comparatively few troops
were engaged, and tho Turkish batteries, bene-
fitting by their positions, were able to silence the
Greek artillery early In the day, SO that the In
fantry was covered and supported during It's
fight for the crest line and blockhouses by the
far-reaching fire Of field guns. The struggle at
Skumpa was also much moro stationary than
that further north along the line. and there was
not tho taking and retaking of heights and in
t~ronchments that added to the interest and the
fury of the contest at Milouna.
early in the day, when all tho batteries had
got their range and the battalions were getting
well to work, Haiz Pasha, an old man Of IS,
met his death directing the advance of his
brigade. He was, perhaps, one Of the most ideal
types of the Eski Turk, the old-fashioned Turk.
He had fought as Captain in the Crimea, and as
Colonel at Plevna, and at his own special re-
quest had been allowed to como for the second
time to Elassena to try his last fortunes against
"Nino or ten miles further to the north tho
occupied BY the troops of either side. In
the night the Eu5onoi had four times descended
the Turkish battalions gradually came up they
were chased up to and driven over the ridges, so
s shas Tine 'q tRera %a ths Gai th en iin .ss where flSss the sd,
t fs1s'r E%sats a Al 5ssssF'n are Wifi f!ssie % saSSs : rhf
Of theirs, and also before the little Custom iato%S
f hstSt they Sns' w eren in far Sn ' greater force, ' and the
Turks thus started at Q disadvantage. The
i Hsr result for tn long time uncertain, and i W "a
not until the batteries in the plain below found
out their in~trenchments that the Greeks finally
began to retire. Firing at a long range 5000
yards, to drop shells dfty yards in front OF ones
own troops is delicate work, and the particular
rected by Ria Pasha himself.
Between ilouna and Skumpa masses of in
tops. I climbed up with the lighting line Of ono
battalion, and l experienced the disquieting SEN
s%ti9n m Sf bsnd a on ss slSPe with at tb Sai ssms Sh tisse ,s
cover for an Albanian soldier who took up his
position below me. and the vagaries Of whose
bullets. Before that ! had gone up TO the block
house. which was then in tho hands of the Turks.
s SSs l Il Gss se e@eSdis shst V was ssf imm Ssl sad oh m f SS%!a
THE soldiers fought in the delightful devil
% ana ths so s9Ts Gf w %ofiee sns' m sssEsf hsrdeaed ih mem
of nearly so. promoted from the ranks, Il not
very skilfSl, had their men well In hand; for the
ity. We had spent tho night in watching the
climbing up hills with the infantry. and as tho
a Aft n wore on nv we ITO tSo * up ThS our position = VIII an
one Of the Greek LIGHTHOUSES drove their
i iba m aS5ashi%'a abov of sf th9 ridge had L sIssaS;
Setween' tho passes had srPduailyy
Liearia and back toward Turnavo. The Marshal
now ordered 2 heavy fire Of all the artillery en-;
back and away. tho Turks remaining r. posses.
sion Of the entire line Of hills: Tho villages be.
low o ere eGt f Hss Gbs sttfRs was eG prse TIC iiEIPo oyer, a BS
tho men lay down to eat and sleep after their
tt adoEs s hSnfs, f ass difficult Th 70 sfoenFs efi Sd fhe
into t%tio With Their Batteries, and the corps
"The commanders We're Nechat, Memdoukh,
aG od, Ha Il } Pasha aSd Of fd the Second pos6 Third Third. a and nc
batteries. But 1t must be that at
the same time a battle was going on at karya
and also to the south Of Tprnavo. SO that double
Ing between the sea and Damasi. OF the Greeks
1t is impossible to form any accurate estimate
AS regards tho general conduct of the battle
the following were my somewhat hasty conclu-
tiful' and always ready sI He ysW WmSl yut Of mules ,iin,
being apparently unlimited. The hospital ser
appeared to be on the field the wounded were
driven back to Elassona in the ambulances with
out any loss of time. OF the artillery practice it
is harder to judge; The batteries We were
ingly well worked, the results obtained
being certainly good. Guns. however, In iso-
lated positions appeared to fire more slowly and
erratically. The Infantry advances before com;
sergeant OF tho Household Brigade, but the
moment the men get under fro they extended
alert and sensible in keeping their line. in max
ing use Of cover, and in taking some sort Of aim.
tellectyal elite Of the army. the officers know.
was used only for escorts and carrying messages.
1.-The battle 10 now over, and Turnavo has Just
Imam " ap.tat Tod M that ayorr nna hnpao . n got