| Show SUMMED UP I LONDON iI I i Sharp Difference of Opinion Among i V the Powers London April 197 p mIn spite of the fact that the hostilities on the Greek frontier have caused but little excitement J excite-ment here communications have been In I progress all day longbetween the foreign f eOnj dth I office and Rome France and Athens I I is reported tonight that among the other matters considered is the expediency of ordering the International fleets to leave Cretan waters and to go in the direction di-rection of Salonica and the Dardanelles to watch the fighting with a view to lovalizing It l necessary by naval Intervention Inter-vention Should this suggestion which is understood under-stood to emanate from the Italian foreign for-eign office be acted upon It is probable that only half the fleet of foreign warships war-ships would be withdrawn for such u purpose the other half remaining to continue con-tinue the Cretan blockade V There is said to be a sharp difference of olnIon between the military powers Russia AustroHunga and Germany and the maritime powers Great Britain France and 1tnlas to the most ex peditous and least violent methods of compelling a cessation of hostilities should this result not be reached by the exercise exer-cise of diplomatic pressure at Athens and Constantinople The likelihood Is that the force to be employed by Europe I a resort to force becomes necessary would b by sea as the contingencies of I military intervention might be more serious than the hostilities now in progress pro-gress I is reported at the foreign office that tho communication received f hero from the Marquis of Salisbury after his Interview with Queen VictorIa at Nice support the theory that the British government is using Its utmost energy to persuade both the combatants to make a cessation of tho conflict at the stage which It has reached now f Hanotaux who received the Greek minister to France today is understood to have assured him that while France I could not tolerate the indefinite prolongation prolonga-tion of war and would never consent to any essential modification of the existing exist-ing territories of Greece and Turkey she would continue for the present her policy of noninterference except so far as intervention inter-vention might be necessary to prevent the spread of the contest to other com bPtants The situation on the frontier has not according to the latest advIce l been materially ma-terially modified today Both tho Turks and the Greeks nre resting rom the tremendous exertions of Friday Saturday fslt1 and Sunday The troops of Edhm Pasha were half dead with fatigue and hunger < = < o 0 1 when the firing slackened last night Most of them flung themselves down where they stood on the bare ground to sleep The Turkish commanderinchie prudently decided to allow his army to rest today 4 As details come In It becomes more and more apparent that the fighting In Milouna pass was of the most stubborn te and savage character The Turks fought llko devils and the Greeks resisted in the spirit of their ancestors The most Inexplicably fact In connection with the whole engagement is the comparatively com-paratively small number of killed Al the special correspondents agree a t this The Turkish appear to have fired a wildly v ith their rifles at Milouna pass as they dd at Arta where the I fighting consisted of an artillery duel be tween the rival batteries on each side of the river lasting about four hour In the afternoon There they fired 0 only one out of five shots with any e et and iueir imitenes were soon suejicea oy tne Greeks whose marksmanship was very much superior The Turkish yer Arta am believed to have been very heavy On the Greek side there was not a man killed Later9 p m General Smolenitz ex minister of war Is in command of Hoe Greeks at Reveni not far from Tyruavos northwest of Larissa At this point i Edhem Pasha closely pressed was nearly taken prisoner His plan was to force the pass of Reveni to enter the plain of Larissa and to cut oft the retreat of the Greek army with his cavalry and thus take Larissa without resistance But this plan was defeated General Domorpoulos at the head of one Greek division forced the Turkish line at Rousrhaiz close to Tymavos and General Mavromochale broke through at Konlskos Tho two generals united their troops near Damasi The news of this success at Reveni and of the Imminent fall of Prevesa has changed the dismay caused at Athens bj the loss of Milouna Into the wildest rejoicing The latest advices tonight to-night are that the Greek troops are advancing ad-vancing to reoccupy their nosltlons at Milouna and at Gritzovaii tho latter ol which it is alleged was abandoned owing to a mlsunderstandir by the general in command who Interpreted as an older to retreat what was really Intended as an order to advance Captain Tagardo who was wounded at Gritzovaii shot himself in order to avoid falling Into the hands of the Turks d kh The Greeks report that heT Turks lost 7000 killed and wounded at Reveni but this estimate is probably excessive The Greek engineers constructed a bridge at Pachyskalos to enable their troops to cross the river trop I is said that the Turkish forces attacking at-tacking Reveni numbered more than 10000 |
