Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-17
.SALONIKI LANDING
SEEN BY MEN FROM
VARIOUS COUNTRIES
Troops Received Cordial Wei
come; Troops Made No De-
monStration But Went Quickly
to Camp Outside the Town.

watched the landing of the first Allied /
troops at Saloniki a large number Of I
English and American Red Cross .
workers having come down from .
Belgrade and Nish to await the course I
Of events at the Greek port. Several |
of these eyewitnesses reached Eng
land this week. The Rev. A. H. Sewall |
chaplain of the Red Cross detachment /
in Serbia. smoke in enthusiastic terms
of the completeness. quiet and speed I
with which the allied expedition dis
embarked and of the unmistakeable
cordiality with which it was received
by the populace.
"A British vanguard reached Saloni-
XII on september &c." he said con
sisting of Brigadier General Hamilton
whom everybody mistoolo for Sir Ian
Hamilton. and his staff, with a follow
\ ing of twenty Swapping British Tom
mics in brand new khaki.
Both officers and men made them
selves as inconspicuous as possible i'm
| Salcniki, their purpose being merely
/ to inspect the camps prepared for the
/ landing force some two miles outside
the town. Four days later reports
/ gained general currency that the ex-
petition was already waiting in huge
/ feet Of transports outside the harbor
/ There was academic discussion among
I the populace as to the ethics Of a land
I ing and crossing Of neutral Greece.
and one hears suggestions here and
there that it was Just what the Ger
mans had done to Belgium, but no
where was there any attitude of hostili-
I ty to the allied plans. Indeed. when
. opinion was expressed at an it was
IN terms of cordial welcome
"On October 8 the transports began
to arrive i'm the harbor proper. They
were crammed with French troops.
which poured over the gangplanks on
to the Serbian quay The Saloniki
newspapers published two pieces Of
news side by side-6rst. that the
Greek government had lodged a pro
test against the landing; and second.
that the governor of Saloniki harbor
had given orders to clear it. i'm order
that no other traffic might interfere
with the comfortable decentralization
OF the allied forces That typihed the
whole operation. Greece had entered
formal complaint, but was shutting
her eyes to the actual operation. It
interpreted popular feeling. which is
. vigorously sympathetic with the Allies.
when the news of Veuizelos resig-
nation and the causes of it reached
Saloniki on the afternoon of October
8, the public was stunned tt could
not understand. It seemed so COM
Dletely at variance with the spectacle
unfolding itself before Saloni1i's own
eyes Il was like a thunderbolt
Meantime the Anglo-French land
ing continued. The streets were
crowded with spectators, but the
troops, once disembarked. marched
straight away from the town, not
through it Thus there was little OPP
portunity for demonstration either pro
or con. There certainly was not at
any stage anything approaching a hos
tile reception The Decentralization
took place beneath a broiling sun such
as New York experiences i'm mid-Wly.
but the heat was not allowed to inter-
lere with the workmanlike precision
OF the operation. The newcomers
brought with them every solitary
thing an army needs to live on and
fight with They needed TO ask their
Greek hosts for nothing except water.
Artillery stores, horses. mules. tent
ing, ammunitiOn-everything seeming
ly in great quantity and spic and span
shape-was on hand and the troops
simply marched out to their encamp-
ment and made themselves at home.
The camp is on a plateauIike area
quite close to the beach.
"Fraternizing between Britous.
French and Greeks set in without de.
lay. There was perhaps a little more
immediate intimacy between the
Greeks and the French. for many OF
the Greek soldiers talk French dueuuy
while only occasionally is one found
who speaks good Englash On the 9th
er hand, there is a great physical re.
semb0nce between the Greek and
/ British soldiers. Their khaki field
kits and uniforms are almost exactly
alike.
The street vendors i'm SaloniH must
De making a fortune. Mysterious edi-
bles on sticks, almonds pistachios, all
are bought up by the visitors as fast
as offered. The newsboys are able 10
sell all the papers they can obtain
whether printed in Greek, French OF
English at their own price.
1.-THE hotels coptha with crfica,,. .
the walters are fast becoming inco.
herent from oyerwork and saloniki
is beginning to dread a failure of food.
stuhs. German spies, many of whom
are quite frank and straightforward
about their business, are everywhere. "
THlRTNONE MINERS DEAD