The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-04-22
SEVERE FIGHTING
DISASTROUSCONFLICT BETWEEN IN
SURGENTS AND TURKS,
The Greeks Win One Fight and Lose
AnOthcr-Refuges state That Sew
cral Hundred Turks We're Killed
in Oac Encounter--Chicf Droufas
Organizing an Invasion of the
ChnIcidikc Peninsula.

IariSSa. headquarters of the Greek
Army in Thessaly, AIril Il. Severe
fighting has occurred in Macedonia be-
tween the Greek ~irrcgularS and Turk
iSh forces. The column of %irrcgulars
sent to the right from PilgavitZa. after
having invested ana captured SitovOn,
continued it's advance toward FIXTURES,
Plisia anI KOurduZi. with orders to
hold the latter ut all costs. as it com
mands the right approach TO Grevena,
the objective point. This column, com
mandcd 10y Chiefs Zermos and LuzzO.
attacked FIXTURES on Tuesday. The
place was defended by two companies
of Turks. After a severe fight. during
which eighty Turks We're killed and
twenty-five were taken prisoner, the
position was captured by the Greeks,
who also obtained possession of 40
rifles AID Il quantity of cartridges. The
insurgents, however, hay" suffered n
severe check in another direction. a
strong force Of Turkish troDNS from
MCGOWAN. with d number of mountain
guns. advanced OF krania which had
previously been captured by the
Greeks. and attacked the 400 irregu-
lars of Greece who occupied an en-
trenched position. 1t is reported that
the fighting was ferociOuS on both
sides. The insurgents were eventually
compelled to retreat north TO the noun
tainS. Some of them. however. sue
cpoded in breaking through the Turk
iSh lines and escaped 10 RaltinO. the
town Just across the frontier. in Mace
donna. first captured by the Greek IT.
regulars and used Ivy them rs n depot
for provisions ana ammunition. The
accounts given by the refugees of the
Turkish losses ara believed to he CNaG-
geIatol. They say that 2GI Turks
were killed. while the ~irrcgularS only
had eight men killed ard seventeen
wounded. The leader of the Greeks
operating in that direction. Chief Mi
lOnaS, WAS among the wounded, ana re-
turned later into Greek territory with
a number of the refugees. One of the
latter says that Il portion of the Turk
iSh force was composed of irregularS
whose dress resembles that of the
Greek insurgents. This. il appears, en-
ablCd the Turkish force to execute a
flank movement unheedcd by the lead
CrS of the Greeks.
Salonica. April Il. - Chief Broufas.
who was the soul of the Macedonian
rising last year. and upon whose head
Turkey set Il price of 1000 francs, and
who was supposed to be dead, has re-
appeared. He is now organizing an
invasion of the Chalcidike peninsula
with Il view of diverting the Turkish
army from Macedonia. He has as
ScmblCd 200 members of the Ethnike
Hetaria and embarked them on a
couple Cf steamers which were to
leave the gulf Of NOlo on Wednesday
last for the coast of C~halcidikc, there
to raise inSurrectiOn. \ Turk who was
posing as the correspondent of the
Journal de st. Petersburg, has been ar
rested here rs Il spy. Another fight is
reported across the frontier. 1t is said
that the Turks lost fifty killed and n
small number OF prisoners. 4 Turkish
corporal light soldiers who were cap
tured by the invaders have arrived IT
ErgaSteria. to which point they We're
sent ny the orde' Of the Crown Prime"
Constantine. where they were released
after being disarmed. The appearance
of the Turks has excited great curl
oSity but they have not been molested.
There ar" thirty other Turkish prison
crs still remaining at Nolo.
Canpa. April II. - The foreign nd
miralS have offered to Col. NaSSOS any
medical and surgical assistance. he
RAY require for the wounded in his
camp. Typhus fever and smallpox are
raging at IIIerap2trl. The Turkish
troops have rcOccIpicd the Springs
near Candia. \ number of prisoners
here have ~revoItcd and are being trans
ported To- the prison on the Island OF