DESPERATE FIGHTING.
HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES. (Per Press Association.) Athens, April 19. Two thousand Greek troops are approaching Preyesa by land Four Greek gnnboats are attacking Salakbnra, a Turkisb town on the north shore of the Gulf of Arta. The Greeks repulsed a fresh attack upon Analipsis. The Greek ironclad Speldia, assisted by a flotilla of putiboats, assisted in the bombarding of Prevesa with so much effect that the town is %ow in ashes. Two Turkish shore batteries were town of Arta is still replying to the fire of the fleet. After two days' desperate fighting the Turks captured the whole of Majura Pass. The losses on both sides were enormous. Furious fighting is going on rotmd the Gulf of Certa.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 244, 20 April 1897, Page 2
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122DESPERATE FIGHTING. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 244, 20 April 1897, Page 2
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