Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-14
MUCH SUFFERING
REPORTED At SAL0N|KI
THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES BEING
CARED FOR BY BRITISH AU-
TH0RITIES WITH AMERICAN
RED CROSS HELPING.


There are 10000 fire sufferers CANT
ing out in tents in and around Salon
lei, with the British and French mil
itary authorities and the American
Red Cross taking care of them. A tour
of these relief camps gave an oppor-
tunity to see the extent of misery
and want of these poor people, and the
efficient relief work being done
chiefly by the British, as they have
the largest stock of available supplies,
with the Americans and French also
doing their share.
The Dubular camp, where $500
people are being cared for by the
British and the American Red Cross,
was the first one visited. It is two
miles back of the city, on rising hills,
which the Bulgars thought to take
when they made their 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-
ton, 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 a 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 toy railway. The
stock of charcoal being laid in is
prodigious, for there is no intention
that the Tommies shall again be cold
while in their trenches and dug-outs.
Endless tIains of pack-muIes and cam
ions circulated through this supply
base, with the hustle and road and
overhanging cloud of dust of a colos-
sal enterprise.
In Camp Dubular, where refugees
are quartered, city of white tents
spread out for half mile over the
level plain. They were the regula-
ton British army tents, drawn from
the big reserve base. They were laid
out in regular streets and cross
streets. Everything was scrupulously
neat, with British soldiers on guard
to see that order and proper SANTA
ton was maintained.
I'VE have to do it all ourselves, p"
said the commanding officer of the
camp for singularly the refugees
refuse to do stroke of work for
themselves. When their supply OF
freash meat came We asked them to
shoe the flies off of it, but they would
not keep their own food clean unless
paid for it,"
The refugees are grouped in the
tents by families, five to tent, with
army cots. They are a very wretched
lot, 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 nursery Red Cross
nurses were bathing the infants, with
boy scouts as helpers. Not baby had
died, and there is little sickness de-
spite the usual camp experience the
infants are going through.
Food for dinner was being issued
as the party passed. Each family
had card showing its 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 arm rations, and the
American Red Cross adds rice and
beans
Or. Edward W. Ryan, head of the
American Red Cross here, took tue
initiative in starting these camps,