The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-13
RED CROSS IS
 TAKING CARE OF THE SAL0NIkANS
Nearly 10000 Fire Sufferers on Camps on Hill Around
 the Ruined City.

Saloniki, Nov. 13.-0staff Corre- spondence of The Associated Press.)- There are 10000 fire sufferers camp ing out in tents in and around Sa- loniki, with the British and French military authorities and the Ameri- can Rcd Cross taking care of them. A tour of these relief camps gave an opportunity to see the extent of misery and want of. these poor people, and the efficient relief work being done. chiefly Iby the British, as they have the largest stock of available SUD- plies, with the Americans and French also doing their share.
 The DubulaT camps where 2,500 peo- pie are being cared for by the British and the American Red Cross, was the first one visited. It is two miles back of the icty, on rising hills, which the Bulgars thought to take when they made stheir first rush on the city.
 On the way to the camp we passed the British supply base, and had an opportunity to see the vast reserves the British have laid in, in ammuni- tion, food and charcoal for the cold months ahead. Nothing could have shown more clearly that the British, like the French, are here to stay. In munitions alone the stacks of shells extended for mile along the road, and as far back as the eyes could see. In the engineering park there were acres of wire, curved steel trench covers. and lengths of narrow gauge railway, ready to put together, as children construct a toy railway. The stock of charcoal being laid in is prodigtous, for there is no intention that the Tommies shall again be cold while in the trenches and dugouts. Endless trains of pack mules and ca,m1ons circulated through this sup ply base, with the hustle and roar and overhangfng cloud of dust of a colossal enterprise.
 At Camp Dabu1ar, where the res- ugees are quartered, a city of white tents sprea]d out for half a mile over the level. plain. They were the regu- lation British army tents, drawn from the big reserve base. They were laid out in regular streets and cross streets. Everything was scrupulously neat, the British soldiers on guard to see that order and proper sanitation was maintained.
 we have to do it all ourselves, ' said the commanding officer of the camp, flor singu1ar1y the refugees re- fuse to do a stroke of work for them selves. When their supply of fresh meat, came we asked them to shoo the flies off it, but they would not keep their own food clean unless paid for it." it{f 7
 The refugees are grouped in the tents by families, five to a tent, with army cots. They are a very wretched tot, who lost everything in the big fire
 which destroyed Saloniki. There are
 many old women and children and
 over 200 nursing babies.
 At the baby,s nursery Red Cross nurses were bathing the infants, with
 boy scouts as helpers. Not baby had died, and there is little sickness
 despite the unusual camp experience the infants are going through.
 Food for dinner wtts being issued as the party passed. Each family had a card showing it's number and
 needs, and only one member of the
 family is recognized in presenting
 these cards. Their holders were gath cred in long lines, men. women and children. The British furnish good part of their army rations, and the American Red Cross adds rice and beans.
 Dr. Edward W. Ryan, head of the l American Red Cross here, took the | initiative in starting these camps which now represent one of the lar gest relief works of recent years
 While the conf1agration was still rag l ing, he had set up soup-ktchens, and | within twelve hours of the start he
 was feeding 2,5oo people.
 1 The military authorities, British and French, came in later, and the work has been kept up ever since with British, Americans and French cooperating. The problem now is
 what to do with this army of destitute i people when the Macedonian winter sets in and the cities of tents can nc 1 lonber be inhabited.
 l longer be inhabited. NO MORE WEDDING CAKES i