Account of the Recent Struggle.

Hastings Standard, Issue 302, 21 April 1897, Page 3

Account of the Recent Struggle.

GREAT BRAVERY DISPLAYED. 200 TURKS AND 1000 GREEKS KILLED THE FIGHTING EXTENDING. Athens, April 20. Further particulars of the battle at Maluna-Pass state that the striiggle was fierce and stubborn. The Turks commanded by Edhem Pasha in person slowly gained the heights and occupied the chief defiles of the Pass. They fought with great decision. The artillery, under Riga Pasha, fired with remarkable accuracy, the range being nine hundred yards. The whole Pass rang with the roar of artillery and continuous firing. The infantry men calmly replaced their dead comrades and faced showers of bullets. Edhem remained gravely impassive and received reports from the generals as to the state of the battle on scraps of blood-stained paper. The hill tops and the northern side of the Pass, were strewn with dead Greeks. Fearing the extension of the battle to Elassona, in Thessely, the residents in the town took flight. The territory gained by the Turks at Maluna gives them command of the road leading to the Greek headquarters. Fighting at Ivauga continues. Two hundred Turks and 1000 Greeks have already been killed. The armies ai e now engaging each other from the opposite hill sides and the artillery fire is especially heavy. Reports from Ellassona states that fighting has commenced at -Janina, in Albania. A severe struggle at Damasi ended in the defeat of tiie Turks at Negeros, on the north-eastern frontier.