DEEDS OF LEONIDAS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1916, Page 5

DEEDS OF LEONIDAS.

THE HONOR OF GEEECE. . A FIGHT TO THE LAST.' Received August 24, 0.40 p.m. London, August 23. ! The Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent states: The Greeks made a ; heroic s! , whilst resisting the Buli gars at icpetra and elsewhere, and ]stirred i\°. country's imagination. | Colonel ( 'istodoulos, commandant at i Seres, saj liat the l'hepetra garrison disputed u 7 inch, and their fate i s unknown. He believes the fight was kept upiil he last man fell dead. Out of the Jtf jista garrison only two wounded jeks were left at the conclusion 1 the combat. I Colon' Christodoulos enthusiastically ( declare? s3t there still remain Greeks Vortln (fcbe companions of Leonidas, i soldier nowing how to die to save the ; honor 0. Greece. Some day, perhaps. jPhepetrj ,vill figure in history like JTliermc ad. i Colon, Christodoulos states be is pre- : pared i lefend Seres to the last. It k ported also that the defenders of &h' ;ch suffered heavily throng' contaij with vastly superior Bulgari- '!'• fw .':S. i'/ie Greek losses at Demirhissar are j>'n, but it is feared they were ~ „ ,u»t Bremus and 170,000 Gauls.

(Several battles were fought at Thermopylae. It is a pass in Greece, the only approach from Thessaly into Locvis. The most famous battle was that fought in 4SO 8.C., by Leonidas and the Greeks against the host of Xerxes, King of Persia. The round hill on which he and his 300 Spartans mado their last stand can still lie identified at the western entrance to the pass. In 270 8.C.. 24,000 Greeks held the pass for months against Brennus and 170,000 Gauls. Like the Persians the Gauls came round by the hills, but the Greeks escaped by sea.) ITALIANS AND GERMANS. COMING TO BLOWS. Received August 24, 8.40 p.m. London, August 23. The Daily Telegraph's Milan correspondent reports that the German press J states that 50,000 Germans are lighting in Macedonia. The Italian and German I troops meeting in battle should now I settle whether Italy is at war with Germany. BULGARS IN HOT CORNER. London, August 2". The War Office Salonika report says: Yesterday we drove in the enemy advanced troops on the Dakli J Doiran front. The French, who are holding the Kamarjan bridge, repulsed the enemy. The Serbians hold tho line Lake OstroyoFo,x»»