The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-15
10000 SUFFER IN
FIRE AT SALONIKI
Camping in Tents in and Around the
Stricken City-Food Cards for
the Needy Families.

Correspondence of The Associated Press
SALONIKI. Nov l5-There are 10
600 fire sufferers camping out in tents in
and around Saloniki, with the British
and French military authorities and the
American Red 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 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 camps where 300 people
are being cared for by the British and
the American Red Cross, was the first one
visited 1t 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 opportun-
ity to see the vast reserves the British
have laid in, in ammunition, food and char
coal for the cold months ahead Nothing
could have shown more clearly that the
British, like the French, are here 10 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
tcurved steel trench covers, and lengths
of narrow gauge railway. ready TO pat
together. as children construct toy rail
way The stock OF charcoal being laid in
i prodigious, for there Is no intention
that the Tommies shall again be cold
while in their trenches and dug-outs. End
less trans OF pack mules and camions
circulated through this supply base, with
the hustle and roar and overhanging cloud
OF dust Of colossal enterprise,
At Camp Dubular, where the refuge :
are Quartercd, city Of white tents
spread out for half mile over the level
plain They We're the regulation 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
i sanitation was maintained
We have to do it all ourselves" said
the commanding officer of the camp FOR
singuarIy the refugees refuse to do a
stroke Of work for themselves When
! their supply Of fresh meat came We asked
them to shoe the flies off 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 a tent, with army
cots They are a very wretched lot, who
/ lost everything in the big fire which des-
troyed Saloniki. There are many old
women and children and over 200 nursing
babies
| At the baby's nursery Red Cross nurses
We're bathing the infants, with boy
scouts as helpers Not a baby had died
and there is little sickness despite the
unusual camp experience the infants are
going through
Food for dinner was being issued as the
| party passed. Each family had a card
| showing its number and needs, and only
one member of the family is recognized
| in presenting these cards. Their holders
We're gathered in long lines, men, womer
and children. The British furnish a goot
part of their army rations, and the Ameri
| can Red Cross adds rice and beans
DR. Edward W Ryan, head of the
| American Red Cross here, took the nitia
tive in starting these camps, which now
represent one of the largest relief work.
4 of recent years While the contlagratior
was still raging, he had set up soup-kitch
ems, and within twelve hours of the start
OF the fire he was feeding $500 people
The military authorities. British anC
French. came in later, and the work ha
been kept up ever since, with British
Americans and French cooperating. Tn,
problem now is what to do with thi
army OF destitute people when the Mace
DOMAIN winter sets in and the cities o
tents can no longer be inhabited
Men who believe whiskey is good 70
la cold nearly always have a cold