BATTLE AT MALUNA PASS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10423, 22 April 1897, Page 5

BATTLE AT MALUNA PASS.

THIS HILLS STREWN WITH DEAD GREEKS. FIGHTING IN ALBANIA. 1 Press Association.Electric Telegraph.—Copjriibj. Athens, April 20. Further particulars of the battle at Maluna Pass state that the struggle 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 Riza Pasha, fired with remarkable accuracy at p, range of nine hundred yards. The whole Pass rang with the roar of artillery and continuous firing of the infantry, The men calmly replaced their dead comrades, and faced showers of bullets. Edhem Pasha remained gravely impassive, and received the reports of his generals as to 'the state of the battle on scraps of blood-stained p&jferThe hill-tops and northern side of the pass are strewn with dead Greeks. Fearing the extension of the battle to Elassona, in Thessaly, the residents of that town took flight. The victory gained by the Turks at Maluna gives them command of the leading to the Greek headquarters. Fighting at Karya continues. Two hundred Turks and 1000 Greeks have already been killed. The armies are engaging each other from opposite hillsides, and the artillery fire is especially heavy. Reports from Elassona state that fighting has commenced at Janina, in Albania. A severe struggle at Damasi ended in the defeat of the Turks. The Greeks also repulsed the Turks at Negeros, on the north-eastern frontier.