Crete, and give Turkey a reasonable sum of money as war indemnity.

It is a pity that England did not show some of this sympathy sooner,
instead of standing idly by until Turkey had brought Greece to her present
piteous plight.

That Greece should have been so easily beaten is still a cause of
wonderment.

If all accounts are true, the Crown Prince Constantine deserves a good
deal of the blame of the disaster. He was not experienced enough to take
command of an army in an important campaign, and should not have
undertaken so difficult a task unless he was sure of himself.

It is said by all the newspaper correspondents who were with the Greek
army, that the shameful flight from Larissa was the cause of the series of
defeats that followed it. These men declare that after Larissa the Greeks
lost confidence in their commanders, and had no hope of success.

It is claimed that if the Greeks had pushed forward instead of retreating,
the Turks must have been beaten.

Up to the evening of April 23d, when the retreat occurred, the Turks were
in a desperate condition. Edhem Pasha, the general in command of the
Turkish army, had decided that it was impossible to break through the
Greek lines, and had ordered a retreat to Elassona. That very night he
telegraphed the hopelessness of his situation to Constantinople, and a
special messenger left for Athens, bearing a message from the Sultan,
asking for peace.