WAR IN ASIA MINOR

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 162, 5 April 1921, Page 5

WAR IN ASIA MINOR

DESPERATE STRUGGLE NORTH OF ESKISHEHIR

GREEK LEFT WING HELD UP By Telegraph—Press Assoclution-Clopyrlßht, Constantinople, April 3. A desperate struggle between Greeks and Turks is proceeding north of Eskishehir, Anatolia. The Turks are in a position between Bozeyuk and Kovalitsa, where they have concentrated their main force of about twenty thousand men, who are well supplied with artillery and ammunition. The Greek left wing is held up, but tho right, afer three days’ fighting, has captured Kovalitsa Hill, and forced back the Turkish loft. It is reported that the Greek casualties total seven thousand. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GREEKS TEMPORARILY CHECKED EXTRAVAGANT STORY OF TURKISH VICTORY. London April 3. • Constantinople continues to claim a big victory after a week’s fighting at Eskishehir, owing, to the Turkish counter offensive on March 31. Tho “Morning Post’s” correspondent at Constantinople says fhero is little detail to support the extravagant story of a Greek rout with a loss of twenty thousand, though Kemalist telegrams say that whole battalions were wiped out, and the Brussa road is covered with 'booty. The “.Morning Post's” correspondent -pys that apparently the Greeks are engaged in a two days’ attack upon the last, heights of tho Inondu Pass, which will open Eskishehir to them. Tho Greeks have met serious resistance, aod fourrS the (lefencee of the successive dominating heights organised with all modern methods. The Turks also showed great doggodness in counter-at-tack. It may lie concluded that the Greeks have been temporarily checked. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.