Account of the Larissa Panic.
AN INDESCRIBABLE SCENE OF CONFUSION. THE SOLDIERS CURSE THEIR GENERALS. Athens, April 29. Further details of the panic which seized the Greek army during the flight from Larissa show a general of terriped citizens, encumbered with household goods, weeping women and children, and sullen soldier: - ., cursing their generals, were hopelessly mixed up on the road. A few officers vainly endeavored to stop the stampede. The struggle to cross the solitary bridge across the river Epinens, which runs diagonally with the road, was terrible, and lasted for hours. The night was pitch dark. Suddenly galloping was heard in the rear, and instantly there was a mad rush in the opposite direction. The alarm extended for miles, and created a perfect pandemonium. The soldiers fired in all directions for upwards of half an hour, believing they weiv being assailed by the Turks. The frenzy calmed down somewhat when the moon rose, and some semblance of discipline was restored. At daybreak the soldiers jeeringly refused the Duke of Sparta's entreaties to defend the town. Special war correspondents on the field declare the scene eclipsed the worst horrors of their experience.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 310, 30 April 1897, Page 3
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192Account of the Larissa Panic. Hastings Standard, Issue 310, 30 April 1897, Page 3
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