Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-12-16
LIKE AN EXPLOSION
IN A PAINT FACTORY

by Wlillam Ii. Shepherd.
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
SALONIKA-(By Mail.)-The sun
goes down like an explosion in paint
factory in this part of the world.
All the mixtures of tongues and
uniforms and ships and flags of the
various armies and navies centering
in Salonika are not in greater con-
trast than the melange of color which
lis the evening skies as the sun sinks
nightly behind the peak of Olympus
where the Greek gods lived and play
ed.
even create. tfiS. the va rs-4os q
color in the city OF the sky. is the
( variety of opinion in the cafes when
the thousands of men of many races
gather with the lighting # the even
ing 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 headquar-
tiers in France, but the Germans
haven't departed because Greece is
neutral.
The Germans are sure that sweep
ing past us 400 miles to the north
the German hordes are pouring thru
Serbia toward Turkey. Some of them
think that the time is not for dis
tant when the Germans will be in
Salonika also.
Then what will the British and
French do? Where will 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 mistake
why won't Italy send an army to
help US in Serbia ?" asks the French
man. "She could easily send 100
900 men. She ought to do as much
for the allies, for her future is at
stake"
But Italy isn't fighting Germany.
She is fighting Austria, and she is
going to put up such a stiff fight on
the Italian frontier that the Aus
trians 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 the
English officers fresh from the Turco-
British fighting in the Dardanelles.
Two weeks ago the Englishmen was
popping away with his rifle at every
fez he saw. Today he passes them
as placidly as if peace had been de-
clared.
Indeed, it is a sort peace that you
see in Salonika. peace of shoot
ing but not of thinking. Bullets do
not fly, but opinions do. All the
different opinions held in every corner
of the world regarding the war may
be found in this city of $4,000 per-
sons and every evening after the sur
has set the pace with its riot of col
of the old Greek city fill, with then
riot of opinion, the Salonika cafes.
Thru it all there is a tension ir
the atmosphere. Serbian refugees are
in the city from Belgrade, Nish ant
Uskub. They are living reminders Of
that cyclone of war that is raging t.
the north of us.
Will that cyclone sweep past Greco,
and leave it unframed? Or will tn,
Germans come down to Salonika
And if they come shall we people o
the city flee as the Serbians hav,
done?
Or will the Greeks go with tn,
Germans and try to drive the allie,
armies out of Greece? All the mel
Of Greece are modelled; you cal
see them digging trenches along tn
Aegean sea as you come toward Sa
lonika.
Will the Greecian king give tn,
word to his army to fight the allies
the queen Of Greece, you know--hi
wife-is q sister Of the kaiser Of Ger
many. and the kings word Is Law