The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-11
,BLuNDERs AND cowARDIcE.
Greeks Had Victory Within Their
GRASP When Ordered Back.

london. May 10.-Apart from the
neace negotiations the principal Tea
M of the eastern situation is that
T,Hkey is pressing reinforeements tor-
ward and preparing for a rapid ad-
vance. Unless the powers succeed IN
Quickly arranging settlement ths
Greeks are likely to suffer furtner as
asters. The exact disposition OF tne
Creek army is uncertain. but roughly
enea king. the first line of defense eX-
tends from Almyros TO Loucon; the
second follows the old frontier and the
third down to Thermopylae. tfShtlns
;s nrobable within the next few days
unless the powers intervene The Greek
feet is at Lama and the transport ana
ot h,r services are still deficient, while
a serious outbreak of typhoid 1eVer ana
dysentery threatens Aria.
The Daily Mails correspondent at
Berlin says it is reported there that
the king of Greece has summoned NJ.
Delvannis in view of a possible caoinet
crisis.
Mr.. stevens, the special correspond
emf of the Daily Mail with the Greek
forces at Thessaly. declared that the
province has been lost through rank
coward lice.
THE correspondent of the Daily Mail
at Patras says: Ever ything is ripe for
a serious political crisis, or for revo-
luton. The army is disguised and tie
armed peasantry are universally dis
contented. The Greek National so
ciety could not have a better oppor-
tFnity.
CAUSED BY A BLUNDER.
The Athens correspondent of the
Dailv Chronicle says: The real and
only cause of the Greek retreat of
Pharsalos was the blunder of one who
mistook tfle retreat of the enemy for
q forward movement designed to out
flank the Greeks, and therefore or
dered a hasty retreat
Grown Prince Constantine left La
rissa because he believed the eXag-
gerated reports of danger to his forces.
II is a fact, however that on the even
ing of the retreat Edhem Pasha, de-
spairing of breaking the Greek lines,
had ordered his army to retire to Elias
soma, while the sultan had despatched
a special commissioner to the Greek
Government. The state of the Turkish
army AT the moment was simply pitt
ful and terror reigned at the Yildiz
Kiosh.
Standard says that almost the whole
population of Thessaly, numbering
350 600. has fled to the mountains in the
vest The refugees from Volo, Phar-
Pelion have been transported to the
islands of Skiathos, Skopelos and Eu-
boea. Forty-f1ve thousand refugees
from villages along the coast are clam
oring for food at Almuros.
The Athens correspondent of the
Times says: '.The Greek army has been
compelled to abandon Salagora and
Fort Immeret, the Turks having occu-
pied the heights commanding the latter.
THE SULTAN MAGNANIMoUS.
Private advices received in London
from Constantinople declare that the
sultan has expressed deep sympathy
for King. George and the Greek cabinet.
whose hands, in his opinion. We're
forced by revolutionary agents at
Athens and Alexandria
THE sultan. according to these ad-
vices. declines to claim war indem-
nitv and proposes a Turko- Greek treaty
unon the simultaneous evacuation of
Thessaly and Crete.
FINALLY. it is said, the sultan desires
to deal direct with Greece and net
through the powers.
Turkeys Terms.