The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-14
HATE OF TEUTONS
TOLD IN MARCHING SONG
"Our Allies Are Robbers" Is the Refrain Heard in Mon
~astir-Starving People Hunt for Food in the.
Streets-Story Of an Air Raid.

high for any one but the well to do.
and sugar a not TO lie had at any
price. Women were picking up the
grain that fell from the army wagons
between the cracks In the cobbles.
Before left people were buying
ognac for the sake OF the lump OF
that was served with II. In front Of the
American missionaries who had inherited
the English Consuls bread line were
huddlcd against the gate for warmth the
patient, swathed Albanian women sitting
on the ground. perfectly quiet, their
faces growing whittier day by day.
In the out of the way streets peasants
would ask for -four. They never VEN
tured to ask us when the soldiers were
near. but we had nothing to give. Flour
was expected. but the first ] saw. a few
small wagons. arrived only as we left in
January.
We were told the army itself needed
food. and one day every one was ordered
to stay at home. Sentries were posted In
the streets, who allowed no one to pass.
while a guard wen through every house
searching for and confiscating -four.
They came to where I live and poked
into every corner. The officer in charge.
standing on a chair. even unlocked the
bird cage and peered into the cupboard
behind.
The worst OF n situation like that is
that there seems to be no remedy for II.
All OF Serbia and Macedonia is swept
as clean as II locusts had eaten ii. Some
Of the peasants In the villages had hid
den a little grain In pits. board lined
and covered vii more boards and earth.
But money tempts. and they are not a
farsighted people. They have probably
sold IT by now to the Germans. who were
paying for everything they could get
Certainly we know by experience that
the Bulgarians will feed their army first.
and the Allies will not allow relief sup
plies TO go through their lines thai may
be conhscated for that purpose. No
guarantee can hold against the necessity
OF hunger.
with the difficulty OF transport as
great as II Is across the mountains there
will always be a food shortage. We
deluged Serbia last summer with such a
quantity OF gifts. many OF which she did
not need. that we Utmost ~pauperized the
country. Agricultural Implements. for In
stance. which the peasants could not put
together or know how 10 use. lie rusting
In great heaps in the north.
All sorts OF supplies We're dipped into
by intermediary hands or lost in trans
port and never reached their right des-
Gated them. ga,
The Poor Forgotten.
During the last weeks OF January
there were several festivities In Monastir.
Every one seemed TO have forgotten the
| poor. They were pushed out of sight,
The great day OF the blessing OF the
waters came.
The head OF the Bulgarian church.
standing In the now on the banks of the
Dragon with the civil and military digni-
taries. threw his cross into It's icy waters.
Half grown men and boys full OF alcohol
1t is customary 10 drink all the night
before-jumped in 10 rescue IL.
The Bulgarian Red Cross gave con-
certs FOR the wounded. Officers walking
IN the streets practised the songs they
were TO sing. In the square the German
regiments industrially drilled Chey
never seemed to let up on them) with
the goose step.
Bulgarians. clumsy in their layers o!
! thick woollen clothes. swung by TO the
, tune OF Our Allies Are Robbers" They
never seemed to drill, hut to see them
try 10 march like the Germans was
amusing. Clump. clumr. clump they
would go. everything stiff and military,
except the hands OF each soldier waved
in time With his step.
We had had one visit from a French
aeroplane. The guns fired at It. fling
ing puffs % smoke Ike balls OF cotton
on the blue of the sky, II had SKINNED
back. untouched. over the mountains
Behind the Turkish quarter were the
sheds Of the Taubes. They had orders
to fly low and YOU could see plainly
as they went out or in to the stations
the black maltese crosses on their planes
On the morning Of the 10Th of Jan.
uary | heard a whirr and jumped to the
window. looked out and up, and opened
my mouth, Twenty minutes later
shut 1t. They tell me I saw aeroplaGes
-many-l don't know. 7 did not count
them. They were SO high. so beautiful
SO impcrsonal. sailing without effort as
n sees gulls sail without Tapping In
"A steamers wake, that I did not connect
them In my. mind with either death
or me.
Below. In the alley. a girl ran tc
a soldier with n startled slucal. and
they chung. looking up. their mouth:
as open as mine Soldiers. German ant
Bulgarian, were crowding into tho
houses or nattening themselves agains,
the walls under tho overhanGinS roofs
BESIDES the Bulgarian guns there wa,
a sort OF whistling scream. crash
of the houses as they were struck, anC
afterwards, quite a distinct interval. 8
noise that might have been the bomb.
exploding. The sky was full OF it'll.
puffs and trails of smoke, and from u,
and over the side Of the outer aeroplane
tiptllted. az II firing from behind {
rampant, came regular flashes. then 81
lcnce and the empty sky again. The,
had gone back over the mountains.
The dead and wounded were hurried
so quickly nut OF sight thai we never
knew how many. but ! think the toll wa,
large. for the funerals went through tn,
streets for two days. the bodies In ope,
hearses. some OF them swathed in ban
dages. unrecognizable. following tn,
chanting Greek priests.
Queer Pranks Of Bombs.
The bombs had played queer pranks
They had gone through the roofs, Kill
Ing civilians at their prayers. at thei
' food. and In a yard crowded with sol
dlers they had fallen and failed to eX
plode. a vender of sausages, fryln,
his wares In an open booth by the sid
OF the Dragon. had been blown int,
bits. The starving beggars rushed il
and ate the sausages.
We walked around with our eye
turned away from dark spots o.
the cobbles. Then the rain came an,
washed everything away.
The day after tho raid the Greek an,
Rumanian Consuls. the French sisters
DIR. Forbes. Miss Mitchell and wer
ordered to leave. Which one Of us he
thought responsible for the coming q
the aeroplanes ! do not know. but W
were given only t~wcnty-four hours.
We had heNn waiting three homeless
months longing to go, and the Bul
Garians now seemed to think they wer