tically over and the foreign mndlents Now that the fighting in Greece peas are freed from the censorate exercised over their telegrams, we are beginning to find out what the war really was. The'correspondent of the Matin, writing from Vole, describes it as a mere military promenade. There were, he says, only two encounters of any consequence: at the Meluna Pass and before Domokos. Even these affairs were much less important than they were represented to be. The stories of the heroic greeks beating back two bayonet charges of the Turks are not founded on fact, for, according to the correspondent, who followed the whole campaign with the Turkish staff, there was not a single fight at close quarters. The Greeks generally retreated without waiting for the Turks to storm their entrenchments. At Domokos the Turks fought all day in an exposed situation and had only 1,200 men killed and wounded, such was the erratic nature of the enemy's fire. During the night the Greeks once more retreated. Edhem's laurels were very easily earned. Any army but that of the Crown Prince could have resisted for a long time either at the Meluna Pass, at Larissa, at cieyeal (a See rei the best proof that the very strong position), atthe Furka pass,
Greeks abandoned the idea of effectual resistance after they were driven from the Meluna Pass is that the entire campaign cost the Turks only 4,000 men killed and wounded. The Ottoman army is by no means the formidable fighting force it has been represented to be. The men are undoubtedly brave but undisciplined and wretchedly equipped. There is no commissariat or transport corps worthy the name. Edhem Pasha had to wait a week at Tekke before he received the provisions and ammunition necessary to enable him to continue his advance. After the fighting at Velestino the artillery ammunition was reduced to five rounds per gun. The utmost confusion prevailed in every department of the military administration. The commander-in-chief's staff was largely composed of favourites advanced by Palace influence. Some of Edlem's venerals were only 30 years of age. The soldiers and under officers, badly clothed and worse fed, of course looted right and left whenever an opportunity occurred. Incendiarism was frequent and most of the churches in Thessaly were destroyed. Every town and village (except Vole, which was saved by the intervention of the foreign consuls) in the track of the Turkish army was reduced to ruins. Competent observers estimate the loss sustained by private individuals at four millions sterling.
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