The Pulaskian., 1919-07-25
Red Cross Cares for People Made Destitute by Bull
 garianS.
LIKE REAL AMERICAN CITY
Headquarters of American oil and To- baeco Interests Opens After Bull uarian occupation-See Awful
 Picture of Misery.

Kavalla, Macedonia-Few Ameri- cans, except those in the tobacco in- dustry. have ever heard of this little port on the Aegean sea. Yet 1t has many features and activities to com mend it to the interest of the people of the United States.
 Here the finest tobacco in the world -the bulk of which is consumed in America-is grown. Here the great American tobacco companies have ex- port headquarters. Here the biggest oil company of the United States and Ameriea's greatest relief organization, the American Red Cross, have distrib- uting centers.
 Indeed, Kavalla has come to have some of the aspects of real Amerl- can city. There are so many Ameri- cans here that one feels himself only few hundred miles from home, in- stead of in the heart of a remote re- zion whose beginnings antedate the birth of Christ.
 Bulgaria Wants Harbor.
 For years Bulgaria has looked upon Kayalla with a covetous eye. AL though defeated and subdued. she looked hopefully to the peace con gress at Paris to give her Kavalla as port. Yet Kavalla is not a harbor. It is merely a roadstead affording good anchorage for coastwise steamers.
 Millions of dollars and endless de- yeopment would be required to con- vert the city into a flrst-class port. But Bulgaria, which now has only the shallow port of Dedeagatch at the mouth of the Gulf of Enos, was and IS anxious to get an outlet through Macedonia and the sea for her large silk and altar of roses. and would be quite ready to spend any sum in de- yeoping and deepening the harbor.
 kavalla is situated on rocky pe- nlnsua and is dominated by the ruins Of an old Venetian fort It is protect ed rom the south by the Greek island ol Thasos. Back from the seacoast is mountainous district known in Mace donia as the Pangaion.
 Coursing through the valley, on fangaion's eastern slope, is the placid Anghista river, which some historical Writers believe to be the stream where raul baptized Lydia. On all sides of ue mountains in this region is rich pable land peculiarly adapted to the growth of tobacco. The best leaf in ile world ic In aoe are the fields for tobacco culture uiat very little else is cultivated.
 During the war the Bulgarians auopted in KavaIla the same ruthless p'actices they followed in all occu- pleo territory. They pillaged and de- aroyed. They made every effort to nake the land uninhabitable. They su' down the trees and carried off fur m'ufe and everything made of wood. .ley sacked the homes and drove u'e Greek inhabitants out.
 AS a result of all this, when the n'eeK commission of the American "eu Cross established relief posts se'e' few days after the armistice, a'er representatives found living N'nuitions almost unsupportable.
 First Red Cross Base.
 AaValla was the first city in Mace aOiiia to become base for Red Cross operations.
 lne natives speak with unbounded th s,au'ude of the help given them by m Americans. They say the food a''ished by the American Red Cross naS the first substantial nourishment u'ey had in four years.
 NO section of the Balkans ever presented a more depressing picture .l misery and squalor. When the ,le.icans leh', came in they found the fan''' fa''tants dying by the dozen from S,,'ne, Ta exposure and typhus.
 k;, .ney Immediately established soup