Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

at each other-and occasionally fight
ing
Enough damage has not been done.
There is not enough misery yet
They are going to start on a cam
pagn fiercer and bloodier than ever.
No Men in Interior.
There are no men and even few
boys left in the interior. They ara
all In the trenches only women
children, helpless old men and babies
are left, and the women take on the
burden OF it all
They persist in sticking to the
ruins of their farms and villages try
ing to scrape enough To keep body
and soul together, for there is still
hope that this war will be avoided.
There is still time to till land for this
years harvest.
The authorities repeatedly warn
them to leave and go into safety at
Salonica, but still they stick. The
soldiers share their rations with them.
which draws too many near the lines.
They are getting in the way These
then are sent under compulsion to
Salonica. 1t needs compulsion to set
NV Aiht ihpNlhS as pbbI Souls, they
stu hope that there will be no war
What do they know about gilded and
useless conferences?
Now they start trooping into Sa-
lonica. where they are taken in hand
by the American and other missions
AT first II is a case Of dozens then
scores, then hundreds. All depend on
outside voluntary assistance This
huraon is taken up almost entirely
by big hearts. Consul General and
Mrs. kehl. the STATS OF the consulate
and mission at SaIonlCa, take lions
share. America is asked for helm ana
responds well
The mission IL so besieged that an
other building has to be taken. Rread
and soup are served out TO hundreds
daily as quick as willing hands -an
DO II, From somewhere they forage
milk supply. and the ladies' take
the babies in hand.
Yet still they roll up.
All are treated alike-Turks Ru,-
gars, Servians. Vlachs, Greeks.
Bread! Bread" Is the Wall.
Other committees are formed. Re-
fugee camps are organized and laid
out. Churches are made use of. the
venerable st. Sophia has nearly two
thousand camping in it, Tents are
put up wherever there is room for
two or three, and still they roll M.
They cannot be COPIED with
outside on the great. white, chok-
ing road, transport wagons, motor
and horse mule trains artillery and
troops are crowding out to the front.
Homeless and destitute refugees are
crowding in. all getting In each 9th
er's way There is no water. and
the dust is rising In clouds. The big
hearted, kindly "Tommies" toss their
bread To the pleading women as they
flash by, the women passing It on
untasted 20 children.
Heroes all,
Here is woman hugging a baby
too far gone to cry-to her dry
breasts four other little ones drag
ging at her skirts. There Is an old
old woman. with two Just orphaned
Riddles with her She has dropped
on the roadside She has half.car-
ried half dragged these two from
Melnik seventy five miles away. Her
husband. their mother and three other
children were butchered 10 make II
Bulgar holiday. she can go no far
Their and the babies are sobhing their
hearts out. Ceramic. give us bread"
These people cannot be kept here
forever They have no homes to 20
to, They are pillaged and burned
and they have ma tools 20 build with.
They have 20 tin the ground but
they have no plows.
Their fields have to be sown, but
they have no seed.
They have 10 eat, and IN the MEAN
TIME they have no BREAD
With millions and millions OF Chris
tan people around them. are these
unfortunate victims to be allowed to
wander back and die like dogs with
out an effort for them
Powers Sit Idle.
The so-called great Powers" that
have let these things be, are they
going to sit idly by and watch these
people die
Never mind whether these people
be Christian or Moslem. they Ike as.
want TO live and must live The con.
ditions are worse than they have been
known in modern history. The coun-
try has been completely a; stand
stll for fifteen months
Bad after the first war many times
worse after the second, and now. n
me, fresh from the middle OF Il. Il Is
! inTescrib BILE The position is I'M
thinkable