670 Mr. tennett Burieigh,War Correspondent Signor Cipriani, Chief of the Mr. F.Noel,Head of En-!ish of the Daily Telegraph. Italian Volunteers. Red Cross Branch at Vu"o.

A SNAT-SHOT AT THE FRONT.

CHAPTER V.

THE CAMPAIGN IN EPIRUS AND ON THE COASTS. \T the outbreak of the war the Greek force —A assembled for the invasionof theTurkish portion of Epirus was chiefly stationed about Arta. It was under the command of Colonel Manos. Its total strength was officially stated at 22,000 men. The infantry was organised in two brigades. The first brigade, under Colonel Christos Botzaris, the bearer of a name famous in the history of the War of Independence, was made up of two regular infantry regiments of three battalions each and a battalion of rifles (Euzonoi). The secondbrigade,under Colonel Sechos, consisted of twoinfantry regiments and two battalions of Euzonoi— eight battalions in all. There were three squadrons of cavalry, each about eightysabres strong, besides a fourth squadron, for which horses were not available. There were five companies of engineers and six batteries of artillery (forty-eight guns). Besides the regular troops, there were a number of bands of irregulars.

The Greeks countedon aninsurrection breaking out in Epirus as soon as Manos and his army crossed the border. They also counted on the Turkish defence being to some extent crippled by troubles with the Albanians, who had on more than one occasion shown an inclination to assert their independence of the Sultan. TheGovernor of the province,officially known as the ValiofJanina, was an oldTurkish general, Ahmed Hifzi Pasha. In 1K77 he had made himself famous by his gallant defence of Gorni-Dubniak against the Russian Imperial Guard. But, though nominally in command of the troops in Epirus, he was enfeebled by age and inillhealth, and attempted little morethan the generalarrangements for the defence of the district,leaving the actual direction of the troops to his two divisional generals, Osman and Mustapha Hilmi Pashas. Before the war the garrison of the province consisted of only a brigade of infantry (eight battalions) and three batteries. These had to garrison the provincial capital,Janina, and the coast fortress of Prevesa at the entrance to the Gulf of Arta, besides guarding the frontier against smugglers and keeping the peace of the country generally against brigands and other disturbers of In the beginning of April the concentration of the main Turkish army on the borders ot -Macedonia and Thessaly being nearly complete, the first reinforcements began to reach Epirus. In all twenty-six reserve battalions were sent into the district. The only addition to the artillery was a couple ofmountain guns. These