Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-08
TROOP LANDING
At GREEK PORT
VIEWED BY MANY
International Flavor Given
Event by Appearance Of
English and American Red
Cross Workers in City,

NAshOclhtcu Press correspondence
London, oct 2S.-Therc was an in
ternational flavor to the crowd which |
watched the landing of the first al
lied troops at SalonlkL a large mum
Der of English and American Red
! Cross workers having come down.
from Belgrade and Nish to await the
course Of events at the Greek port |
Several Of these eyewitnesses reached
England this week The Rev. A. IT,. /
Sewell, chaplain of the Red Cross
detachments in Serbia. spoke in en-
thusiastic terms Of the completeness,
quiet and speed with which the al |
lied expedition disembarked and oil
the unmistakable cordially with
which it was received by the. popu-
lace.
"a British vanguard reached sal
onki on September 30" he said,
consisting of Brigadier General
! Hamiton-whom everybody mistook
for Sir Ian Hamilton--and his staff,
with following OF twenty strappng
British Tommies in brand new khaki.
Both officers and men madeI
themselves as inconspicuous as pos
sihle in Saloniki, 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 expedition was already waiting mi
huge fleet Of transports outside the
harbor There was academic discus T
sion among the populace as to the
ethics Of a landing and crossing of
neutral Greece, and one hears sug |
! gestions here and there that it was
Just what the Germans had done inl
Belgium but nowhere was there any
attitude Of hostility to the allied
plans. Indeed, when opinion was
expressed at all, il was in terms Of
cordial welcome.
Transports In HarbOr.
ION october 5 the transports be- |
gan to arrive in the harbor proper |
They were crammed with French !
troops. which poured over the gang |
planks onto the Serbian quay The |
Saloniki newspapers published twoi
/ pieces Of news side by side--first, /
that the Greek government had lodg-
/ ed protest against the landing |
land. second, that the governor Of
Salonik harbor had given orders tot
clear it. in order that no other trat- |
| fic might interfere with the comfort |
able Decentralization of the allied
forces. That typified the whole op- |
GRAFTON: Greece had entered formal
/ 81, n
| to the actual operation. II interpret
ed popular feeling, which is vigor' |
ously sympathetic with the allies
when the news of Venizelos res'
ignation and the causes Of it reach |
ed Saloniki ON the afternoon of Oc-l
tober 8, the public was stunned. III
could not understand. 1t seemed sol
completely at variance with the spec
I tacle unfolding before Salonikfs own
eyes. 1t 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 il. Thus there was little OPP |
portunity for demonstration either
pro or con. There certainly was not
at any stage anything approaching a |
hostile reception. The disembarka-
ton took place beneath a broilng sun
such as New York experiences in
mid-July. but the heat was not al
flowed TO interfere with the workman
| like 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 eX-
cent water. Artillery, stores, horses
mules. tenting. ammunition--eVery
thing seemingly in great quantity ana
spic and span shape--was on hand,
and the troops simply marched out to
their encampment and made them
selves at home. The camp is on
plateau.like area quite close to the
beach,
"Fraternizing between Brltons,
French and Greeks set in without de-
lay. There was perhaps little more
immediate intimacy between the
Greeks and the French, for many Of
the Greek Sblultlo tam AA'iiNAA A'N
emily. while only occasionally is one
found who speaks good English. on
the other hand, there is a great phys
ical resemblance between the Greek
and British soldiers. Their khaki
field kits and uniforms are almost
exactly alike il
'rhe street vendors in saloniki
must be making fortune Myster-
lous edbles on sticks. almonds. pis-
tachios. al are bought up by the
visitors AS fast as offered The news
hoys are able to sell all the papers
thew can obtain, whether printed In
Greek. French or English, at their
own price.
THE hotels seethe with officers
the waters are fast becoming inco-
herent from oyerwork, and saionikl
is beginning 20 dread failure OF
foodstuffs German spies, many OF
whom are quite frank and straight
forward about their business, are
everywhere. y