GREEKS OUT-MANOEUVRE TURKS
TURKS COMPLETELY ROUTED
i GREEKS IN HOT PURSUIT
I Received 10 p.m.. October 24. ! ATHENS, October 2-1. Twenty thousand Turks and six batteries entrenched at Sarantaporo made <°, stubborn resistance, on the morning of Tuesday. Fighting continued by moonlight. During the night n flying column of the Greek third and fourth divisions mad'? a flank movement round tho Turkish, left. Daylight revealed the plan and tho Turks'fled precipitately, leaving a. ouantitv of baggage. The Greeks hotly pursued them through a defile, and on Wednesday evening occupied Serfiii. j>l«o n br;dfe over the Halikmon river vh-'eh threatens tho Turk- , ish. retreat. Before abandoning .Serfiii, J tho Turkfi massacred seventy Greek s Priests. Thn Greol.~ v.^ T -r> mix-.™ need t^^r headquarters tr> ■FThankh'tyVn^o, The troops am in tho highest spirits. Tho Crown P'-'n^-«" ronorts that -22 i guns woro eantnred n.s o q m.m'h .ammunition and transport. Tho Turkish army h scattered, and the pursuit is continuing. ■Danglis reports that the Turks lost heavily. There aro monr nrisonon?, including a Lieutenant-Colonel.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 25 October 1912, Page 5
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