the Powers, and unless something happens to turn the tide of war in her
favor, she will probably be utterly defeated by the Turks.

The loss of Milouna Pass was a severe blow to Greece, but not half so bad
as the fall of Larissa, which from all accounts appears to have been a
very disastrous affair.

The Greeks appear to have behaved in a very cowardly, rebellious way, and
the whole story is very discouraging.

A battle was fought at Mati, and the Turks, who had swarmed through the
pass, were victorious, and the Greeks were forced to retreat.

Unfortunately there was no good general to manage the movement, and
instead of falling back in an orderly manner, they seem to have hurried
away from the battle in a mob.

A newspaper correspondent who was present says that the men straggled
along sullenly: the soldiers, mule-trains, carts, wagons, guns, and crying
villagers, women, and children in a panic-stricken crowd.

A few officers tried to restore order and to make the soldiers re-form
their ranks; but their efforts were already hopeless, when a cry arose:

"The Turks are upon us!"

At this, the mob began to run for life, helter-skelter, pell-mell,
trampling each other under foot, the soldiers actually shooting any one
who barred their way.