Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-04-23
STORIES OF TIE WAR
HOME OF GREEK REFUGEES.

Corresponding of The Associated
Press).-High upon the hills of this
busting Macedonian city is a pictures
que settlement where 5000 Greek re-
fugees, driven from Asia Minor by the
massacres of 1914, make their homes.
Hundreds of other GereekS who were
interned by the Bulgarians in Dobrudja
during the war have Joined them re-
Gently. The houses In this refugee
camp were constructed by the Greek
government A space equivalent to
large New YORK furnished room is al
lotted to family Of from five to
eight
The settlement has been given the
pretentious name OF The Quarter of
the Triumvirate" in honor OF Greece's
three great modern patriots-Premier
Nenizelos, Admiral KountouriotiS and
General DanglaiS, who, repudiating
King Constantine, eSpOused the cause
of the Allies when Germany sought
to win over the Greek army. Many
of the people have been helped by the
American Red Cross and speak CRATE
fully of the United States and its peo-
pie.
AS the Associated Press correspond
ent was visiting the village. two OK
carts loaded with Greek refugees who
had been driven by the Turks from
Inc villages along the Sea OF
Marmora in 1913 and 1914 and
who during the present war were ex-
PEELED from Macedonia by the Bulgars,
made their way slowly up the steep
mountain road. The refugees had just
come from Dobrudja to the south of
Rumania, where they were practically
eXiled by the Bulgars. They had been
nearly two months on the way, and
virtually all the food and aid they
! got came from the American Red Cross
| which has relief posts along the line
| leading from Bulgaria into Macedonia.
! Many were little tots from one to five
j years old. The wonder was how these
| little ones. siciSly and undernourished,
| were able to survive the long trip by
! train, motor truck and oX-cart
! The faces of these returning refugees
! wore an ineXpressibly sad and harass
! ed look. For five years they were
| driven hither and yon by Turks and
BulgarS and had never known what it
| was during that time to have a roof
and shelter. Under the Bulgars they
were forced to live in the open fields
| or in dugoutS or stables Eighteen
| hours a day at hard labor under con-
slant intimidation, was the lot OF some
of them. Three fifths of a pound OF
black bread Il day was the pitiful re-
compense they received from the Bull
! gars. Often those too weak to worl
were beaten by their ruthless masters
One refugee declared to the cores
pondent that at one time there were
more than deaths day among the
| refugee colony in DObrudja from NAL.
4 nutrition, exhaustion and exposure Ii
certain sections. he said the Greek!
were forced to live largely on the rindi
of watermelons which the Bulgarian
soldiers threw in the streets.
The older residents of this raf,loa.
: Suburb" of Saloniki. most of whom
had fed from different parts of Asi;
Minor during the wholesale massacre
there in 1914. have bitter experiences t,
relate about their treatment by tn
Turks. Some of these people lived il
: the city of Phocis, where the who'll
5 Christian population either had bee
driven out or were killed by the Turks
l The women wept as they told abou
t the outrages of the Moslems TIL
: worst story was that told by an intel