THE GRECO-TURKISH WAR. 676 betweenPentepigadia and Mechista with only a battalionof Euzonoi, two companies ofinfantry, and four mountain guns. Manos, for some strange reason,had chosen to disperse his little forcein a series ofpositions along the south end of tlae valley. There was a long cannonade lasting several hours, and ending in the four Greek guns being silenced. It was not tilllate in the afternoon that the Turkish infantry advanced against the Greek right. Hopelessly outnumbered and outflanked, the Euzonoi retired fighting down the valley. At Muliana a Greek battalion and eight guns were posted, and here there was a short stand made against Beforereturning tothe narrative of the events in the main theatre of war,it will be well to note tlae proceedings of theGreek naval squadrons. Prevesa,blockadedby CommodoreKriezis was still deficient. While Marios was inEpirus the commodore had madearaidalong the coast. He had bombardedHagia Saranta, a little port to the north of Corfu, andburned a quantity of stores accumulated there for the Turkish army. He hadalso thrown afew shells into Parga and other coast villages on his way back to the watersbefore Prevesa.

In the Ægean Sea and the Gulf of Salonika there was another squadron which had been "POT-SHOTS" AT THE TURKS.

the pursuit. But tlae Greeks were soon in retreat again. At nine in the evening, when it wasalready dark, they pouredinto Kumutsades. But,although the pursuit had ceased, they did not stop there. They tramped back to Kanopulo, joined in their flight lay tlae troops they met on the way. At Kanopulo Colonel Botzaris tried in vain to rally them. The retreat had now become a rout. As at Tyrnavos, a panicstricken crowd of men, women, andchildren had mingled with tlae retiring column,and at three in the morning the weary multitude began to pour across tlae bridge of Arta and- into the town. By sunrise the Greeks had evacuated Turkish Epirus, with the exceptionof the coast under the commandofPrince GeorgeofGreece, but, just before the war, was handed over to Commodore Sakhtouris. It consisted at first of two powerful modern battleships of small size, the Psara and the Hydra, and a numberoflight cruisers and torpedo boats. On April 22nd it was joined by a third battleship, the Spetsai, a vessel of the same class as the Psara and Hydra. On the day of the declaration of war the squadron was at anchor in the harbour of Skiathos,anislandnear tlaenorth end of EubSa. Sakhtouris remained at anchor till the night between April 20th and 21st, when he left Skiathos and steamed towards tlae Gulf of Salonika. On the morning of the 21st the squadron bombarded Platamona, and a lucky shell blew up a Turkish powder magazine in the tow 11. The shipsthen moved a few milesfurther north and opened fire on Leptokarya, but the battery at Salagora, which was held with the help of the gunboatflotilla in the Gulf of Arta.

The brief campaign had cost the Greeks between 400 and 500 killed and wounded.