The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-19
SALONIKI HAS A
 GREAT NUMBER OF PARTISAN DAILIES
Although, Only Small City
 Greek Seaport Has a Dozen Newspapers.

saloniki, Greece. Jan. 19.-The French and British troopers station ed in Sa1oniki since the opening of the Allied Balkan undertaking never cease to marvel at the number of newspapers able to live in a city of, normally, only about 15O,0O0 ;nhabi- tants, of whom a very large percen- tage cannot read or write. Though the second city of Greece since it's conquest by the Greeks in the last Bal kan war, SaIonfIxf has never been and is not now in any real sense a Greek city Indeed. a scant 25 per cent. of the population is Greek. Yet the city supports five Greek daily newspa- pers, three morning and two after noon journals. Besides these, probab- ly the most widely read of all is the unique daily, the Forward, which is printed in Hebrew characters for the benefit of the overwhelming Jewish population of the p1ace-but Hebrew characters, spelling out Spanish, not Hebrew words!.
 The newspapers of all Greece play very important if not dominant part in the politics so much the lead ing occupation of the Greeks. There is no such thing in Greece as a poI1ti- caIly independent newspaper. in the sense that a newspaper may be politi- cally Independent in the United States or in France. Every Greek daily is either for or against zelos-that being the cardinal political test. This is true, of course, Of those in Saloni- l1i as we'll.
 The Light, a morning, and The New Truth, an evening journal, are the Greek anti-Venizelist organs, though the fcrmer in addition to being bit terly opposed to the late Premier is also pronouncedly pro-German. The Macedonia and the Greece, both morning journals, are the Venize1os organs in Sa1onilki, though the, Anchor an evening journal, while more mili- tarist than anything else, also sup ports Venize1os, The Spanish-Hebrew evening paper, the Forward, is. as it's name implies. socialist in politics and Pro-German.
 While a mixture of Spanish and Italian is the current tongue spoken by the great majority of the inhabitants of Saloniki, French is also spoken widely, generally. understood and uni versally read. There are, therefore, four French dailies publfshed in Sa- Ioniki-a morning and ar evening pa per for each political point of view. But in respect of the newspapers pub lished in French. there is more paru- sanship on the subject of the Euro- pean war. LAOpinion. in the morning and L'Independent in the evening are the word bearers of the Entente Pow ers and especially of the French, though both are edited by natives or l. Courier of Saloniki and The New Coountry, both in French, are accept ed as almost official o-German or sans. The former is a socialist pa per. closely affiliated with the German socialist party, and the latter is vir- tually the mouthpfece of the Austrian Consulate at SaIonikf-
 One other French newspaper is wor- thy of mention: the Journal of the French warship CharIemagne. which while not technically published in Sa- loniki has its circulation there. It is by far the newsiest sheet to be had in Saloniki for it prints all the official comm uniqIes of the various countries at war, as well as great deal or 1n- formation gleaned from the W1re4Sss service @f the French battleship- It is distributed free of charge to all the Allied ships lying in the harbor, to the J,eaiaI1arters and various other offices of the Allied armies on land, and may be subscribed for by private tndivld7 susIs at the rate of fifty cents a month. r since the arrival of $ the British troops, an English newspaper has also been started and is said to be very nrosperous It isf called The Balkan News. and is published under the aus pices of the editors of the French Journals LsOpinion and LIndepenuent-
 The battleship Georgia has been awarded the Knox naval trophy for being first in battle efficiency in 1915.
 The garage, stable, and carriage house of Payne Whitney at Manhasset, l.. |. were destroyed by fire at loss of $50 ,oo0.
 The New York State Assembly adopted resolutions calling on Gov whitman to designate Jan- 27 as a day for special contributions to aid the Jewish war sufferers in Europe.