The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-07-31
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I HERBERT COREY, the ar correspondent, in communication to the Ma
tonal Geographical society gives a vivid pen picture of the Macedonian
= battlefront A part of the communication is made public by the society in
the following wr geography bulletin;
The story OF Macedonia today is the story of the Monastr rmd. Along
this highway Alexander and Netxes and Gaerius once uamped with their legons
1t has been the link between the Adriauc and the Aegean seas evr since history
was written
For centuries it has carried its OK carts with their solid wooden wheels, and
long trans OF donkeys and peasant women bowed under packs. Serbs and
bulgarian raiders have dytended on Saloniki along it. For thirty centuries
lighting men and peasants and thieves and slaves have marched through its
bUttorIcss mud
To-day it is Kaleidoscope as t could never have been in the worst days
OF VS. bad history 10 the ok carts and donkeys have been added great whirlng
tnghshnen IN KHAKI Italians in gray green, Russians in brown, Serbian soldiers
in weather washed gray, bead its surface Fezned Turks ae there and Albanians
in white embroidered with black, and Cretans in kits and tights and tassekd
shoes
"Airmen, % wrapped in fus that they remind one # toy bears, dash by in
cars that are always Straining for the limit OF speed Arabs perched high on
mei little gray horses direct trains of the blue carts of the French army Gaudy
Slclian cart with Biblical scenes painted O Their siiboatds are dragged
through the mme
"Sengalese soldiers, incredibly black, watch with al air of comical bewil
aethtW ne ertatc ventures of donkeys that seem to have been put under pack
Tor the iut time. lndo- Cfnese soldiers in pagoda shaped hats tipped with
carry burdens. Moroccans IN yelowish brown swing by under shrapneI helmets
New levies marching toward the front, the sweat beads standing out on
thei pale i~eheads as they struggle under their sixty pound packs give the
nau TO ne veterans OF SIX m6pths' service hard, capable, tfGcsS Overhead
the Hers purr N the lookout for the eneny Big guns lumber along behind
caterpillar tractors Ammunition dumps line the road and hospitals dot it
ur' nurses from France and the United States and all the British empire ride
over it.
Always the amhuEances are there They are always given the road The
men who turn out for them anticipate the day when, IN their turn, they will be
riding in a Red Cross ar toward Sabnki and home
AT the farther end of the road is Monastr, taken last winter by the allied
forces in battle that in any other war would have been set down az great AT
the sea end OF the road is Saoniki, the allied base, where Cicero lived for a
time and ST Paul shook the dust off his feet a a testimony against the Thessa-
ionanS OF his day and where Suleiman the Magnificent built the White Tower
IN "hose onbieues bones still moulder Of the victims of 500 years of Turkish rule
at sight angles to that road as thought they were the bent bow Of which the
road IS the arrow, are half a million fighting men of the allied forces Not
many in this conflict perhaps Macedonia is rarely mentioned in the com.
muniques fet the British did lot employ so many men in South Africa during
Inc whole ber war n one day have counted the uniforms OF twenty fighting
peoples on the road