FIGHTING IN THE BALKANS
TURKS ENVELOPING A POSITION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Constantinople, April 29 After twenty-four hours' respite 6000 Albanians entere'd the Katehink defile. The Turks are enevloping the position, which is described as another Thermopylae. The Albanians have agreed to permit train services to be continued on condition that they are allowed to search every train. The- Battle of Thermopylae was fought in 480 B.C. between Xerxes and the Greeks, when 300 Spartans resisted for three successive days the repeated attacks of the bravest and most courageous of the Persian Army, which, according to some historians, numbered five million inen. Thermopylae is a small pass leading from Thessaly into Locris and Phocis.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 378, 2 May 1910, Page 5
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113FIGHTING IN THE BALKANS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 378, 2 May 1910, Page 5
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