The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-13
BRAVE DEED OF TURK
HOW FISHERMAN SAVED A TOWN
FROM eULGARs.
gy Remarkable Feat Of Craftsmanship
He Reached the Greek Fleet In
Time to Save Kavala From
Pii!aae and Ruin.

Here Is q dramatic story Of war
which shows how brave Turkish
fisherman saved the town Ok Kavala
from massacre by the retreating Bull
sarian army. It is a graphic sid olight
on the horrors due to the reopen1ns
Of the war.
'T lave heard from an eyewitness
most striking and picturesque details
as to the way in which Kavala was
saved just IN the nick Of time from
are and slaughter" says the Salonika
correspondent of the London Tele-
graph. "The mass Of the Bulgar
army, in danger Of having its retreat
cut of from the north, had evacuated
the town, leaving behind only small
force Of 200 men, commanded by a
lieutenant, with orders to burn and
sack the town next day. The terrified
people had hidden themselves in their
darkened houses, behind locked doors
and barred windows. Runors had
gone about that the garrison quar-
tered Ia the fortress overlooking the
town was laying in large stores OF Pc
troleum, and that 5ayonets were being
sharpened and guns loaded. There
was nothing to hope for or to do; only
with unavailing curses and eprayers
await the coming Of death in its most
hideous form.
Through the pitch-black streets q
Turkish boatman crept down to the
port. No boat was allowed to leave
the bay, patrols faced the quay,
searchlights flashed over the still and
silent waters. Very quietly, lying fat
on the gray stones, he loosened his ut
t;e craft. crawled in, and, with muf-
fed oars, pulled away. None heard
him. and the searchlights playing al
around him left him in darkness. 1t
was. he says, as If a great hand were
stretched over him, and its shadow
lay around his boat.
"He cleared the bay, and with all
his might aRd main bent to his oars
Far across the sea, e miles away In
the bay OF Thassos, lay the Greek
feet. Through the long hours OF the
aisht he rowed, needless OF aching
arms and limbs, rowed for his lie
and the lives Of thousands who lay be-
hind him in the quakng town. In the
early morning the port OF Taassos
opened before him. The great ships
we're there, always Hndet pressure.
stratning at aeir anchors.
with last effort he pulled up 10
the side, and the startled sailors hang
ing over the gangway heard a CRY OF
warning, a cry for help, rise up INTO
the night: For the sake OF Ahan
and for the sake Of your God, come
quick, for at sunrise the Bulgars sack
the town.
AT morn thick column OF smoke
rose behind the promontory. what
could It be? With beating, shaking
hearts they watched the nose OF a
ship creep round the corner, long,
low, gray thing with protruding guns
and tunnels vomiting smoke.
1T was a destroyer. At the stern
aoated something they could not see.
Yet, God In heaven, 1t was blue with
O white oross! The next instant the
bell was changing out a crazy, SeFV
peal, and a frantic creature was tear-
ing down the streets shriekin9 The
Greek feet. The Greek feet!
In one moment shutters were let
down, doors burst open. and shout
ing, sobbing crowd rushed down TO
the sea. The destroyer had stopped,
q boat was lowered, the captain was
rowed ashore. He hardly had time
to reach the ground before SO strong
arms had caught him up and with
weeping and with laughter carried
him shoulder high through the cheer
Ing streets. while behind him. content
edly nodding his red-fezzed bead, un-
obtusively walked the ample Turk
ism fisherman who had saved the
town."