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GREEK
OPERATIONS.
The Greeks at the end of last
week
crossed the frontier and captured an
Important position at ElasBona. According
to "Tho Times' " correspondent's
statement, quoted above,
Has-
E^n Tahsin Pasha, vith 3u,tJ0u men, i^
defending the Turlclsh frontier. Accounts
of the operations from
Greek
souVces state that a body of
6uut»
Turks, presumably part of
Haesau
Tabsin's army, with seven
siege
guns,
are occupying the heights behind
Five Greek divisions
were
opposed
to
the Turks, and
in
the !
preliminary
duel tho, new Schneider
j
guns brought into action
b\ the ;
Greeks wiought great
havoc.
At
iwol
'clock on Sunday afternoon
the
[
Crown Prince
opened
lhe engagement
with tho
lirst division,
which
made
a bayonet
charge. The
Turks
resisted desperately, but
they were*
shaken, and the Greek cavalry
completed
their
discomfiture.
Meanwhile
the second
division was
clearing
the hills to the east and
threatening
to cut off the enemy's retreat. The
Turku thereupon withdrew along the
Sebia road, and took refuge
a
in
heavily fortified
defile,
leaving eighty
prisoners and seven guuB in the
hands of the
Gr^eltf;,
During Lho c,ngaftempnt
the
Crown
Prince's eldest son, Prince
George,
j
received
his baptism of lire.
i
Greece has announced the
J
blockade
of the Turkish Adriatic coast, includ
tug Preve?.a and Corfu.
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