A Turco-Egyptian naval squadron commanded by the Kapudan Pasha attacked a Greek squadron anchored in Karlovasi at Samos. The Greek flotilla included fifteen Hydriot warships and four fire ships commanded by G. Sachtoures, twelve Spetsiot war¬ships and three fire ships commanded by G. Androutsos, and six Psariot warships and one fire ship commanded by Apostoles. The wind became favorable in the afternoon and the Greek ships assumed an attack formation. The fearless Kanares, accompanied by the warship Philoktetes that was commanded by E. Lazarou sunk a Turkish frigate with his fire ship. After the clash, the Turco-Egyptians withdrew to Mytilene and the Greeks to Icaria.

The Bulgarians destroyed Greek institutions, churches and schools in Philippoupolis. This action was an expression of Bul¬garian anger at the success of the Greek guerrilla forces in Mace¬donia.

The leader of a guerrilla band Second Lieutenant Nikolaos Tsotakos (nom-de-guerre Germas), his second-in-command First Sergeant Vasileios Tsimpidaros (hailing from Mani in Laconia) and a force of forty-one men, were surrounded by a Turkish army unit in the Kalogeriko gorge, near Germa in Kastoria. A battle fol¬lowed as the band attempted to leave the gorge in which Tsotakos, Tsimpidaros and twenty-three men were killed and eleven men were taken prisoner.