THE LATEST.
TURKISH TOWNS BOMBARDED. A DETERMINED ENCOUNTER. TURKISH CAVALRY REPULSED BY GREEKS. FIVE HUNDRED DISABLED. THE SULTAN CHANGES HIS GENERALS. THE TURKS REINFORCED. Athens, April 24. the Greek Eastern Squadron is bombarding Karaburnu, a town on the Gulf of Salonica.
the Western Squadron is bombarding Agiri, on the coast of Epirus, and Opposite the island of Corfu. the repoitc'd successes of tireelcs at Daraasi arid Reveni to the northward of Larissa are not confirmed;
Later reports show that the fighting was apparently of an undecisive character.
The Greeks; under the Duke tit Sparta, repulsed three thousand Turkish cavalry at Mati, disabling five hundred. CoxSiAiJ'riNDPLfe, April 24.
The Sultan is irritated at the obstinate defence of Turhavo, a town situated to the nbltli West of Larissa, by the Greeks, and has decided to replace Edlinm Pasha in command by Shazi Osman Pasha:
He has appointed Shade! Eddin, Turkish commander in Crete) to the command of the troops acting against Janin a in Albania.
The Turkish forces on the frontier are to be re-inforced by fifty thousand Redifs, Or Second Reserves, which is composed of men who have served four years in the regular army and two years in the First Reserve.
Izzet Bey, who lias been degraded for resisting the war, was the Saltan's" Chamberlain and second secretary.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10426, 26 April 1897, Page 5
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