The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-03
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ou-,9,suc ln New York. lie had an
,-.e-yico M eve and wanted 10 know
rno, III becu doing In Macedonia. When
, told HIM I was a correspondent his
manner changed.
"Sl, go more, lady he said. shaking
ne warmly 10y the hand. III you're one
a, us. far he II from me to rob you OF
m. word Of our story"
So here Il is-thc record Of these
months spent Ave miles from the Greek
barber In y little Macedonian town.
rYrrd round with snow covered noun
ans retreat OF the wcaponed and
xhiskcrcd brisands and smugslers Of our
childhood rumances. "A place half Turkish.
hslf Greek in architecture. wholly ORR
entail In feeling.
Down its narrow. twisting streets
PASSED while I was there the last Of the
re,reatlng Serbians, the Bulgarian hrst
Ard second armies. the Austrians and the
Germans.
For = week the train into Greece. like
a passe singer. had daily made <s posi-
lively last appearance. We had no often
hNAfl 'Ut' N1pllfSllT WIZ dDput 10 Itll
,la, when one day toward the end OF
November the correspondents, the doc
tors from the hospitals, all the tran
sent foreigners left We thought II was
orly another case Of Wolf Wolf
That night Miss Mitchell and I. as
usual. dined at the Bosnia cafe. II was
crowded with soldiers eating with their
knives and the aid of the fathers fork
he Balkan name for fingers.
Hunger Overcomes P%oIitcness.
We had to push our way between the
tables and over swords and military over
coats thrown on the floor. The faces.
mostly strange to US, looked tired. No
one laughed. One heard only serious.
Nv toned argument and fretful words.
snapped out between mouthfuls.
You had to uard our food with one
hard, or your neighbor. inpatiently
waiting for his, would eat II. They were
hungry and had no time to waste on
pol'en,ss.
Te next night there were only a few
peoplf At the spotted tables. We sat and
waited and no one came to serve us. A
von.dn's head appeared AT the square
1Jle tnat opened into the kitchen.
She beckoned to my interpreter and
Icy held a whispered conversation He
aN' td'h di nicNtoItu W US 10 IOltUW
In.
The lady ooh says II she gives you
!ood here the soldiers will take it, he
siif. shes tired. and she's going away
tomorrow. she's not goiug TO stay and
,ook for the BulSarisns.'
lie tptoed out. followed by n hungry
eyes Ia a small back room. unheateI,
beyond the kitchen the cook finally pro-
oIo~l as y favor some extraordinarily
had soup.
We sat around the table. our feet on
The rurgs Of the chairs to keep out the
cold, our breath rising in steam as We
talked, tho lamp making a spot OF Light
= The centre of the room. The inter-
prefer gave a nervous giagle.
81 guess III ask the police for a bomb
g. keep IN my room." he said. This
m the Buigar!ans are really coming"
Nonsense 80 we said. 1T is only
another scare"
BuIEnr Army Advances.
A man IN khaki civilian clothes. fol-
lt7"i by Il solder. pushed open the door
At tho end Of the room, out they backed
OF ''D legetica,ly when they saw us.
why said Miss Mitchell. Its the
tMg nesr that we talked to on the bridge
over TIE Black River. Something must
'''' NhII'lfis I NoIihC IL tlC VI lu6
has been blow up"
We called to him and he sat down and
o''"e"n mouthfuls dejectedly told US
news. lie had waited until the
S"rt.aus had reiterated over the bridge
ana the Bulgar!ans were within 500
Yards and then turned on the current.
A. first The latter did not realize what
- aas there for. but when they did
''ey had shot AT but failed TO hit him.
WY didn't We hear the explosioR?'
We asked.
There wasn't much explosion. Some
mig Was wrong with the battery. All
tie 'r'js" was not destroyed. The Bull
garau Infantry had crossed. but IL Is
'mpa.stn,- Tor the artillery.
'atu" ahead, but our army is only
4 ''w miles out. There is an English
5''>c, Mss Sands, with them. She's
rang BESIDE the soldiers" We could
picture d..
Inc Dad a Causeway between marshes
on ei.'r side tn. mountains. and trudg'
ing aone. pr"pounding the woman's hg
we "u a horse, the dirty, ragged, con-
sGnp'lNr Serbians.
Mss sands did not come into Monastir
Nhe r"iIsed 20 leave her wounded. LateI
we N"rd she had gone into Albania with
me army. Some day ! hope to meet her
The engineer looked utterly detected
W" conIt1rted him with soup. From
'n' - lime the soldier sighed from hi,
dark .,ruer.
Mi>- NJ iCheil spent hat night in m
room Nv windows overlooking the mali
e''' pil"'td superior possibilities fol
N'"'Ng I'll" incoming Bulgarians. ant
NEITHER Of Us wanted TO miss anything
A. sl. went 20 sleep she said she woulo
never i'rg'v" me If | did not wake he