The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-12-15
ALL NATIONALITIES
GATHERED AT CAFES
Great Question is Whether Greeks
Will Get Into Game and op
Which Side; Answer
Due Soon
BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.
u. p. staff correspondent.

y. p. staff correspondent
SALONIKA, Nov. 2.-(By mail)-
The sun goes down like an explosion
in paint factory in this part of the
world.
All the mixtures of tongues and uni
forms and ships and flags of the vari-
GUS armies and navies centering in
Salonika are not in greater contrast
than the melange of color which fills
the evening skies as the sun sinks
nightly behind the peak of Olympus
where the Greek gods lived and
played.
Even greater than the variety Of
color in the city or the sky is the
variety of opinion in the cafes when
the thousands of men of many races
gather with the lighting of the eve-
ming lamps to talk over what the fu-
ture holds.
There are Germans here; they did
not move away when the allied armies
came. Salonika is as much an ally
headquarters as the headquarters in
France, but the Germans haven't de-
parted because Greece is neutral
The Germans are sure that, sweep
ing past us 400 miles to the north, the
German hordes are pouring through
Serbia toward Turkey. Some of them
think that the time is not far distant
when the Germans will be in Salonika,
too
Then what will these British and
French do? Where win they run to?
But you don't hear Germans talking
this way. loudly. It's among them
selves they say such things, in their
own cafes.
Englishmen are divided. Most OF
them are glad the allies came to
Greece, others say it was a mistake
why gcn't Italy send an army to
help us III Serbian asks French
man. "She could easily send 100000
men. She ought to do as much as
the allies, for her future is at stake
But Itely isn't fighting Germany.
She's fighting Austria, and she's going
to put up such a stiff fight on the
Italian frontier that the Austrians will
have to withdraw troops from Serbia
to keep the Italians back explains an
Italian newspaper correspondent.
Turks, in their red fezzes. sit in the
same cafes in Salonika with English
officers fresh from the Turc British
fighting in the Dardanelles. Two
weeks ago the Englishman was pop
ping away with his rife at every fez
he saw. Today he passes them as
placidly as If peace had been declared.
Indeed, it is a sort of peace that you
see in Salonika. peace of shooting
but not of thinking. Bullets don't fly,
but opinions do. All the different
opinions held in every corner Of the
world regarding the World War may
be found here in this city Of 1S5,00O
persons and every evening after the
sun has set the pace with his riot OF
color in the Olympian sky, the occu-
pants of the old Greek city fill, with
their riot of opinion, the salonika
cafes.
Through it all there's a tension in
the atmosphere Serbian refugees are
in the city from Belgrade, Nish and
Uskub. They are living reminders Of
that cyclone of war that is raging to
the north of us.
Win that cyclone sweep past Greece
and leave it unharmed? Or win the
Germans come down to Salonika?
And if they come shall we people of
the city flee as the Serbians have
done2
Or will the Greeks go with the Ger
mans and try to drive the allied
armies out of Greece? All the men
of Greece are modified; you can see
them digging trenches along the
Aegean sea as you come toward
Salonika.
Will the Grecian king give the word