THE GRECO-TURKISH WAR. 708 It wasnow late in the afternoon. TheGreeks might so far claim a victory on tlae main battlefield, but about 5 o'clock disquieting news reached tlae Crown Prince at Domokos from Colonel Mastrapas' flanking detachments in tlae hills to the eastward. He reported thathe was being driven back by an overwhelming force of the enemy, and he asked for reinforcements. Colonel Dimopulos' brigade was now divided. Part of it, with a mountain battery, was sent away to the eastward to support Mastrapas— all too late— and the rest of tlae brigade was used to reinforce the troops holding the trenches before Domokos.

been taken, and the Greeks might try to recover them in the night.

Orders were given to tlae troops to lose no time in entrenching themselves on the ground they occupied,and Hairi was directed to move one of his brigades nearer to the main road, so as to be in position, if necessary, to support the Adrianople brigade which had suffered so severely,and the men of which wereexhausted by the prolonged fight in which they had been so hotly engaged. Soon after dark there was the beginning of a panic in the Turkish centre. Some of tlae horses of Riza's reserve batteries werebeing marchedto the rearin ordertogive them water, when the report spread that a retreat had been ordered, and that tlae artillery was already moving off. It was with difficulty that a general movementback towardsPharsala was prevented.

The Turks had brought all their reserve batteries into action. Altogether in tlae centre they had seventy-two guns and six howitzersat workshellingthe Greek position. ThreeGreek guns had been dismounted, and an artillery waggon had blown up on the slope near the citadel,sendinga great spurt of flame and smoke high over the hilltops. Several of the batteries concentrated their fireon the nearestand lowest ofthe Greek trenches. The rifle fire from the entrenchment gradually slackened, and at last it was rushed by the Adrianople brigade. Out of 3,500 men, they had lost nearly 700 in the advance. A littlelater the village ofVelisiotæ, shatteredby the fire ofHairi'sdivisionalartillery, wasevacuated by the Greeks, but they held tlae hill slopes above the place, andas tlae sun set,the mainposition was everywhere intact.

About 11 o'clock a tired horseman rode in from the eastward with a despatch from Hamdi Pasha. He informed Edhem that he haddriven back the Greeks andhadbivouacked for the night between Karatsali and Virsi, and that Memdhuk was in line with him further eastward. He w-as thus in a position to come downon the Greek right or establish himself on their right rear as soon as next day's sunrise gave him light to advance. This news put an end to the anxieties of the Turkish staff. The orders for next daywerequicklywritten. Hamdi was toadvance against the Greekright,signalling the moment when he marched off by a salvo from all his guns. Memdhuk was to swing round towards the south-east and try to get between theGreeks and the Phurka Pass, or at least on the flank of their line of retreat, and withinstriking distanceof it. The frontalattack on Domokos was to be resumed at dawn and pushed home as soon as there were signs that Hamdi'sadvance over the crest of the ridge was producing aneffect on the Greeks. The horseman who had brought the despatch said he could not possibly find his way back through the hills in the dark. It was by good luck he had reached the headquarters, so difficult was the country. SoColonel Mahmud Bey, who hadled the charge at Velestino andhad beenin the saddle allday during this battle ofDomokos, took the orders and rode away to Pharsala, where he got a fresh horse and then made his way to Hamdi'sheadquarters. Just before sunrise the report of the guns in the hills told Edhemthat his left wing had received its orders, and that Hamdi's division wasmarchingoff EdhemPasha and his staff had watched the fight froma knollnear the Pharsala road, facing Domokos. They prepared to bivouac for the night near its base, but before anyone could think of resting there was much to be done. The Turkish marshaland his officers werenot a little anxious about the situation. There wasno news whatever from the two divisions in tlae hills to the left. Arrangements for keeping up communication with that wingby signalling had broken down. Allthat was known was that in every lullof the mainbattlethe windhadborne fromtheeastwardthe boomofHamdi'smountain guns. He had been fighting tillnightfall, with what result could only be guessed, but it was thought that ifhe had been completely successful he would have found some means to get tlae news through to tlae headquarters'staff before theclose of the day. Then the frontalattack on the Domokos position, thoughit hadbeen more vigorously pressed than had been originally intended, had proved on the whole a costly failure. The mereoutworks of the position had