The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-14
n rms HEART Of
THE STORMY BALKANS



sALoNIcA, Nov. I. tBy MALL
Here's the world war news center.
At last the stormy little Balkans
lave come into the .world's;eye.
Correspondents from all corners
of what used to be civilization flock
here to be near the great German
push 400 miles north of ".
There are lesser correspondents
hanging around the hotels OF Sa-
lonica. mostly queerly dressed chaps
With queer habits and manners.
newspaper men from European
countries who have spent their lives
in the Balkans trying to get the
busy world interested in their little
affairs. men who have lived IN
queer Balkan cities and have dashed
,nadly to the Balkan telegraph Of
fees in times past with news items
which they themselves thought ire
mendously important but which
we're honored with tiny headlines
in the newspapers of the world.
These Balkan-fan journalists
knew that some day the Balkans
would explode. The day has come.
The explosion has occurred.
At last lthe feet of European
armies are pounding the Balkan
highways; European cannon. ma
chine guns and rifles sound through
the Balkan hills and European
spades eat trenches in the Balkan
soil.
In the Olympus Palace Hotel, on
water front, gathered around the
tiny tables in the cafes, are the off
GERS of the British. French. Russian
and Greek armies, melange OF
color and language. And the Bal
kan iournalists-English, French
and Italian-chatter gaiIy. wisely OF
the great day which has come a,
lest.
Salonica harbor is filled with
/ great boats. warships. tor,
peao boats. hospital ships. and
1.-Two or three boats which
have huge American flags painted
! on their sides and which are making
small fortunes for their owners II
running the submarine gauntlet Will
| supplies for The Balkan allies.
| That busy harbor of itself Il
CROUCH 10 delight the soul OF til,
Balkan journalist But last evea
| ing. Just at shutdown. came the eli
max of his excitement An aero
plane was soaring over the bay o
Saloniea. Behind il, across til,
harbor, loomed Mount Olympus
where the old Greek gods used t,
five and cut their capers.
Just to see an aeropiaAe WIT,
OLYMPUS, which has been peaceful
and quiet ever since the gods died
as . background, ives enough Il
Prove to the Balkan experts that tht
grcat day really had ocme at last.
To tor ii OFF, the engine of n,
, aes oplaae weakened ii Us s5roHa
tie machine cane nearer end near
er TO tae water. II had wi,eeis in
stead OF boats beneath its plane
nnd when lis nioEaeatum was gon,
saG ii came 10 the surface OF tn
Icy, it dug its nose fifteen or TWEEN
IT. feet into the water, pilot and all
end then stood on end with its tai
in the air.
Here was catastrophe OF thu
world war, riget at foot OF Olym
pns. The Balkan experts watche,
the ayiators come 20 the surface
climb into The hair sunsstii pane
end wait for three tug boats IN tn
harhor to rush 10 the rescue.
/ Then they went back to the Olynl
pus Palace cafe where the Frorcl
old timers i'll the Balkans ordere,
/ ssa'he-w which one cannot buy i
Pasis--and the other ordered WINS
| key and soda. over which inc
| threshed out the whole problem Q
| the value OF aefoplancs in Balka
warfare, happy at last TO be able t
| say:
! The eyes of the world are nc
on the French front or on the Rus
| sian front They are on the Ia
kans, as ] have always said the
would be; and here the world va
VIII be threshed out