Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-23
NINE DAILY JOURNALS
SUPPORTED IN SAL0N|K|
Four Are in French, Four in Greek
and Another in Hebrew
Spanish.
All of Them Are Bitterly Partisan
and None of 10000 Inhabitants
Expects Anything Else.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
SALONIKI. Greece, December 81
The French and British troopers sta
toned in Saloniki since the beginning
of the allied Balkan undertaking never
cease to marvel at the number of news
papers able to live in city of, nor
mally, only about 100000 inhabitants,
of whom very large percentage can
not read or write. Though the second
city of Greece since its conquest by the
Greeks in the last Balkan war, Salonikt
has never been and is not now in any
real sense a Greek city. Indeed,
scant 25 per cent of the population IS
Greek. Yet the city supports FIVE Greek
daily newspapers. three morning and
two afternoon journals. Besides these,
probably the most widely read of all is
the unique daily, the Forward, which
benefit of the overwhelming Jewish
population of the place-but Hebrew
characters spelling out Spanish, not
Hebrew words
very important if not dominant part
in the politics so much the leading oc-
cupation of the Greeks. There is no
such thing in Greece as politically in
dependent newspaper. in the sense that
a newspaper may be politically indie
pendent in the United States or in
France. Every Greek daily is either
for or against Nenizelos-that being
the cardinal political test This is
true, of course, of those in Saloniki as
we'll.
The Light. morning, and the New
Truth. an evening journal, are the
Greek anti-VeniZelist organs. though
the former. in addition to being bitterly
opposed to the late premier. is also pro-
pouncedly pro-German. The Macedonia
and the Greece. both morning journals,
are the Venizelos organs in Saloniki
though the Anchor, an evening journal,
while more militarist than anything
else. also supports Nenizelos The
Snanish- Hebrew evening paper the
Forward. is. as its name implies, So
cialist in politics and pro-German.
Four French Dailies.
While a mixture of Spanish and
Italian is the current tongue spoken
by the great majority of the inhabi-
tants of Sa!oniki, French is also
spoken widely, generally understood
and universally read. There are. there
fore four French dailies published in
Saloniki--a morning and an evening
paper for each political point Of view
lished in French, there is more par
tsanship on the subject of the Euro
pean war. LOpinion in the morning and
LIndependent in the evening are the
word bearers of the entente powers,
and especially of the French, though
both are edited by natives of Saloniki.
On the other hand, the Courier of Sa-
loniki and the New Century. both in
French, are accepted as almost official
German organs. The former is d
socialist paper closely affiliated with
the German socialist party. and the
latter is virtually the mouthpiece of
the Austrian consulate at Saloniki.
One other French newspaper is
worthy of mention. the Journal of the
French Warship Charlemagne. which,
while not technically published in Sa
loniki, has its circulation there. 1t is
by far the newsiest sheet to be had in
Saloniki, for ii prints all the official
communicates of the various countries
at war, as well as great deal of in
formation CLEANED from the wireless
service of the French battleship 1t is
distributed free of charge to all the
allied ships lying in the harbor, to the
headquarters and various other Of
fees of the allied armies on land, and
may be subscribed for by private in
dividuals at the rate of so cents
month.
Since the. arrival of the British
troops, an English newspaper has also
been started, and is said to be very
prosperous. 1t is called the Balkan
News, and is published under the
journals L'Opinion and LIndependeRt.