El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-22
lLL.ESGLEiN UP
TOWNS OCCUPIED.
At 1A35ANELLE5
Weird Transformation Is
Wrought by War in Quaint
Turkish Villages.
WIZARDS REBUILT;
ROADS CONSTRUCTED
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4 THENS, Greece, May ga cores
u pondent with = the British ex-
peditionary force at the Oar
danelles. although not allowed by the
censor to give the name of the seaport
where he is stationed. sends she fol-
lowing description Of the town and the
picturesque force gathering there;
1.-THE war has brought a weird trans
formation TO some of these sleepy Medi-
terranean towns. a transformation that
viii mean permanent changes to most
of them They wiz be modernized in
many respects. and the road building
and docE-making and general house
cleaning which the soldiers are dong
will work almost a revolution in the
towns and their inhabitants
This place Is most interesting Just
now. with its prosperous garrison OF
French trOops-chasSeurs d Afrique on
their superb Arab horses. Senegalese
infantry as black as my hat and
F'renchmen in their blue TUNES and red
trousers The Senegalese have odd lit
tie tents dOtung whole hillside, each
eight feet long, four feet wide. and
only two feet high, in the middle of
which six men sleep. During the day
they lift one side up and make a sort
OF awning OF ii. under which they sit.
The officers are all Frenchmen, of
course, some dark-haired men from the
South, some fair not yet suburnsd.
Then there are ordinary French
soldiers in their new Khaki, and
Australians big men. lOOse-limbed, rid
ing carelessly rOughcoated horses, look
ing all the time as if they might easily
fall off.
wooden shacks have sprung up in
all directions, where loud voiced Greeks
sell fruit candies postcards. sponges,
timed stuff of all sorts, whisky, brandy,
and beer at 65 cents a bottle. The
shacks are about half the size Of a
1rrrnrr,oha71a nd i
ably bear a sign Bon Alarche.' or else
Grill Room over the door, usually in
chalk
staggering about under huge loads of
fodder and supplies, ammunition carts,
Red Cross army automobiles, wagons,
and small boys in hundreds crying Pen
nv. signor. penny Out in the bay are
batueships. cruisers destrOyers, trans
port supply ships, Golfers, hospital
ships, Greek trading schooners, and
huge flat barges by the score Every
where, like the small boys on the shore,
dash the little, fUssing, putting French
picket boats or the more dignified
English launches
ION the right, the French are making
q road and pier A little nearer the
town the Australians have already com
pleted a big wharf and the rickety
structure that has served for genera
tons the needs OF the sleeping village
is piled high with every conceivable
pieces Of timber. It is crowded with
natives and Creeks, and looks every
second in danger Of collapse 49,
"Quietly stalking through all this
furry Of war move the Greek priests.
with their uncut hair twisted up like
a wOman's OF pushed up under their
hats, with a courteous salute TO every
one, black or white. officers or private,
that looks their way.
War Moves Inland.
Inland half a mile, war has vanished
save for the long regular lines of tents
on the hillsides and the occasional faint
call Of a bugle There the farmer
plows with his Old-World wooden pillow,
drawn by sleepy oxen which are stimu-
lated into action at intervals by the
prick Of the gOad-
by the side OF the streams, where
peoples. nlacs, and ragged-rObin are
springing up as the same flowers are
in may other quarters of the world. the
women kneel beating their washing on
the stones. laughing and talking. and
behind them from the well walks the
familiar Biblical figure Of the woman
and the pitcher. Turn toward the har-
Dor and one has the antithesis,-Wild
western hurry and confusion and eff
ficiency there, here eastern peace The
latest deadly explosive on one side, on
the other the pitcher at the well.
TOnder. the zig army automobile truck,
here the wooden ox-draWn ploW."