Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-04
llACEDON|A IS PEACEFUL,
, BUT PEOPLE SCATTERED
.aiHed Armies Diminish, and Feel
4, Ing Of StranYcncss Felt
Throughout Land.
DORIAN NOW HEAP or RUINS
Oncc Pretty Town Destroyed During
r Many Battles, While Zine Roads
|. Built by British Arc Advantage to
Country.

SAI;oNIkI. March 3.--tSpcciaD. =
Macedonia at present strikes one as
lWi,h little or no population. Many, OF
Inc villages and towns which furnished
l.nc battle grounds OF the allied armies
and those OF the central powers have
been destroyed and the popula ton
scattercd. mostly by the Bulgariars.
Iemt partly BY the necessities OF the
The allied army or Macedonia too.
us dwindling and 1t gives one feeling
oSt slIanyeness to travel up and down
(Which once were populous with allied
Troops now deserted Camps occupie!
Tor '"o years by the, allied forces and
IWhich one had come to regard as per
l.hantnt institutions. now are the feet
HnE grounds only OF nocks of crows
Elckins about among the refuse. All
Ehc trooos have by no means left this
part % the world and Saioniki still
Etmains the most important military
PAS In Eastern Europe. but a grca,
Ehapgc has come over things and one
|ao" secs the sturdy native on his di,ni-
nnti!e donkey riding In places which
TOR three years was barred 10 every
loody not in khaki
IrOWN Of DOItAN NOW
hut HEAP OF RUINS
The wi!ter passed through Dorian
l;he cthcc day. Ii once Was a pretty
llnte town. pic;urcaquc!y situated on
h. shore Of the Lake Dorian and dur
ing the greater part OF the war wa.
l5Riy lcw hundred yards beyond the
III inc thousand or more houses. there
Us MOI one left that is more shan a
i1eap Q, tubbish and that is typical of
The population is slowly nitering
2ack. but the chief thinss that they
ma are the excellent roads made b..
liotta ,iuce tho days %. the Romans
lncsc roads "iil be invaluable for the
uture Mac.dolia has large agricuI-
tHrJi possibilities ana iis population
INii nyEin - scillc down again after
~ raNHE"s OF ihc war as they have
houc - often before.
| NJ Oh 81 ccdonian question" still
lt"aiia s".rNon. l. contained the seeds
pr fonoic ana srlef for th.- whole OF
llu'.iAH'lE Nie''.d from here, the war
Ir"inS 10 hhto done absolutely moth
Ihs |" s"ittc IN" problems OF the mixed
thd "drrinS races In these regions.
g i""5 .,Hti9ntiiics and prctudicea
how as before the war.
FEEL TURKEY NEEDS
sTItoNG RULING HAND
| Bu, The Austro-Gerrnan menace
lfhich heretofore overhuns the whole
,osn dissipa,cd and the western pow
FRS now apparently realize that there
l. every reason tor them TO take a Keen
mere; IN what is going on in the
balkans.
!, is generally fcl, hero tina, Tur-
s s.i = kindiy' but nrtn friend who
''uat, lieh iu'uie on At .3sis OF
llSht and justice and conditioned
l,artly. though not wholly. on the paris
played By various nations In the war.
pn Serbia's answering ga!lautry and
loyalty on the great aid nnally given
by Greece and the trcachcry and Cynl-
Eism OF Bulgaria
The allies may not need TO grand
mother the balkans. out i, is likely
hat they will have TO godfather
hem. Otherwise the Macedonian
Question WIN some day come TO the
4 nn Rrj l1
Ind allied soldiers who lie in Mace
ltoninn sail seem TO demand that hence
| orth peace shall prevail in the land
iShe'c thc$ fought and died