Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1930, Page 34

*“HE EVENING STAR, WAS Hl\'i"l'fi\'. D. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1930. hold that the tacties of the Greeks | were the result of happy accident rather than examples of superior military wis- dom. Darjus, King of Persia, had or- dered his unenl to enslave Athens and Eretria. Eretria fell, and the Per- sians drew their ships up on the sands at Marathon and disembraked cavalry and infan! “The mimhn! and their allies meanwhile had taken a position in the narrow passes of the highlands which Tun down the peninsula. In these passes the Persian cavalry was useless. Finally the Greeks, though fewer in numbers, boldly attacked in a running charge. The Persians repelled the cen- ter of the charging Greek line, whose ends then swung in with crushing at- tacks on both flanks. The invads fled to their boats and shoved off, though the Greeks succeeded in captu: ships. m“')l.:%un nr.ns also heen made fa- mous by-the lines of Lord Byron, who lost his Iife in the modern Greek revo- lution ‘against the Turks: “*The mountains 100k on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing there an hour alone, T dream’d that Greece might still be ' - é” O] ) —I;S'I'E MARATHON GOURSE <10 BE. WATER LINE Marble-Faced Dam Will Di- vert River to Supply Athenians. “The’ original course of the mmthon will soon ome & water course ; efforts of American engineers and k workmen. A dam at Marathon, impounding the Charadra River, to divert the water for the use of Athens, is being completed. As ancient Greece built her temples of marble, 50 modern Greece builds her dams, and the new dam at Marathon is said to the only marble-faced dam in the wofld. Paul Revere of Athens. “Over the route that Pheidippides ran 22 miles to bring good news of victory over the Persians water will soon run to refresh thirsty Athenians” says a bulletin of the National Geographic Society. “Pheidippides had won races at the Olympic games, so the city council called on him in that emergency 2,420 years ago. A few days previous to the battle they asked him to run down to Sparta to persuade the Spartans to bring up reinforcements. When he re- turned the army had marched and was |encamped on the heights above the | Plain of Marathon, which is on the other side of the peninsula from Athens. So Pheidippides took up his heavy | shield and spear and set out to join the free; For, standing on the Persian's grave, | T'could not deem myself a slave.'” KILDUFF TRANSFERRED. Aide to Willard to Be Gunnery Officer on U. S. S. Lexington. Lieut. Comdr. William D. Kilduff, aide to Rear Admiral A. L. 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