THE PURSUIT OF THE GREEKS. 667 Patrols sent through the streets and out on the roads beyondreported that there wasno sign of an enemy. But the Greeks had left a rich spoil behind them. Six heavy Krupps, two mountain guns, two field pieces, 10,000 rifles, heaps of Emmunition, food and forage ; waggon ambulancesandcampequipment— alltheyhad removed was the rolling stock of the railway, and that had been taken because it helped to accelerate the retreat.

Edhem Pasha had expected to have to storm Larissa. It was a strange surprise to receive early inthe day a note from Seyfullah, announcing that he was in possession of the place. It was only a week since the war began. Last Lake Nezeros and the cannonade at Damasi werecomparativelybloodless affairs. These are the figures given by General Von der Goltz in hisstudy of the campaign. It is not possible to give more than a rough estimateof the losses of the Greeks. By their own accounts they were nowhere heavy. They were probably about equal to those of the Turks. But the rout of Tyrnavos and the confusion of the retreat reducedthe army of Thessalystillmoreseriously. Most of theirregulars gave up the struggle, and numbers even of the regular troops threw away their arms and deserted their regiments.

During this first period of the war it was currently reported in Europe that the whole Sunday they were knocking at the gate of Thessaly, the Meluna Pass. This Sunday they were in its northern capita!. In the course of the day Hakki Pasha's division marched in. Good order waspreservedin the town. Somesoldierscaught plundering were promptly arrested and sentencedto be shot next morning,but let offlaterwitha sound flogging. The people who had remained in the town were chiefly Mohammedans, who welcomed the troops as friends come back to their own again.

A rapid pursuit of the campaign was being directed by German officers, and that Edhem Pasha was a mere figurehead to this foreign staff of military experts. The legend apparently had its origin in Grumbkoff Pasha's activity with the Turkish cavalry division, and the part he played in the actual occupation of Larissa. As a matter of fact he was the only-German officer serving on the Turkish headquarters staff, and his prominence at Larissa seems to have excited jealousy in official circles at Constantinople, for he was immediately I-' PASUA. (Ph.to: Abdulah, Cons:tnUi-.e/-lc.)

r— r retreating Greeks might even now have prevented their rallying at Pharsala. But Edhem Pasha was well content to secure possession of the ground that had been abandoned to him. He had won it at a comparatively trifling cost. During the week's operations the Turkish army had lost thirty-nine officers and i,o6q men killed and wounded, and one officer and thirteen men missing. The heaviest part of the loss had fallen onNeshat's division,the result of its unsuccessful attacks on Kritiri. It had lost fifteen officers and 401 men.

The two divisions which had attacked the Meluna had lost in that first battle ten officers and ten. This leaves for all the other divisions, the cavalry and reserve artillery, and for Haiden and Memdhuk's division,during the fightsabout "Mati, a total loss of fourteen officers and 297 men. Thisshows that the long fusilladeabout recalled to the capital. It is true he was promoted to the rank of a Turkish general, decorated, and added to the list of the Sultan's aides-de-camp, but everyone understood that he had simply been honourably removed from a sphere of activity where he was supposed to have too much power placed in his hands. The Sultan wished the work to be done by his own Turkish officers, not by their German instructors.

There were a number of German officers with the army as correspondents for various papers in Germany, but there is not the slightest reason to believe that they were ever called in as advisers by the comniander-in-chief. They had, however,a way of writing as if the Turkish army was beingused on German lines of action. This was to a certain extent true. General Von der Goltzand his German colleagues,lent by the