The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-05-06
'CRE RHUeE'ES
I PRAISE AMERICA Z
rRlYEN FROM ASIA MINOR IN
! e9' 1914.

i Saloniki, March correspondence
Z at The Associated Press. High up
9n the hills of this bustling Macedo-
4 ilian tcity in picturesque settlement
\ whsEeE 5000 Greek refugees, driven
ft9 Asia Minor by the massacres of
/ - "2laake their homes, Hundreds of.
other ~ Sks who were interned by
\ e!'Ruigariang in Dobrudja during
thefswar have joined them recently.
The houses in this refugee camp
were constructed BY the Greek gov
arnmsft. A space equivalent to a
large New York furnishing room is
Allotted to family of from five to
fetght.,
NE settlement has been given the
pretentious name Of "The Quarter of
the gTriumYirat IN honor of Greece's
three great modern patriots Premier
Nentzelos, dlmFiral Kountouriotis and
General Danglais, who, repudiating
King Constantine. esponyed the cause
2 OF the Allies when Germany sought to
4 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 andits
people,
Y AS the Associated Press. cores
.f1a 4 y =
pondent was visiting the village, two
4-caFts loaded with Greek refugees
who had been driven by the Turks
from the villages along. the Sea of
Ma rmora in 1913 and 1914 and who
DURING. the present war were expelled
from Macedonia by the 5Bulgars, made
their way slowly up the steep noun
tain road. The refugees had Just
come from Dobrudja, to the south of
Rumania, where they were practic-
\ ally exiled b 1.-The Bulgars They had
n been nearly two months on the way,
and virtually all the food and aid
J, they got came from the American
R9Gt Cross which has relief posts
along the line leading from Bull
: garEs into Macedonia. Many were lit.
tel tots from one, tot five years old.
The wonder was how these little ones,
z siekly and undernourished, were able
to: survive the long trip by train,
Z. The faces Of these. returning re-
q1otprtruck and ox-cart.
fagess. wore an inexpressibly sad and
Aarassed look For five years they
WeEesa driven hither and you by Turk
and fBulgar and had never known
known what 1T was during, that time
to- have a roof and sheldter. Under
The iBulgars they we're forced to live
/ I'M the open fields or in dugouts or
stables. Eighteen hours a day at hard
labor under constant intimidation,
WaS the lot: Of some of them. Three
-Hfths, of a pound lof black bread a. day.
was the pitiful recompense they re-
ceived from the Bulgars. Often those
too weak to- work were beaten by
their ruthless masters.
One refugee declared to the cores
pondent that at one time there were
more than SO deaths day among
the $refugees colony in Dobrudja
from 1rialnutrition, exhaustion and ex-
posurs In certain sections, he said,
tie III Greeks were forced to live
largely on the rinds Of watermelons
which the Bulgarian soldiers threw
in; the streets. 49,.
The older residents of this refugee
Suburb" of Saloniki, most of whom
Had fled from different parts of Asia
Minor during the wholesale massac-
res there in 1914, have bitter expert
:sehces to relate about their treatment,
8by the Turks, Some of these people
alivediin the city Of Phocis, where the
whole Christian population either had
,beenadriven out or were killed by the
Turks. The women wept as they told
ABOUT the outrages or the MoSlems.
The worst story was that told by an
intelligent peasant woman, who. de-
,clared shat in a butcher-shop opposite
her home in Phocis, she saw the
Turks take a young girl who was con-
4sfdered the most attractive in town
and! cut her body into pieces, They
hung the pieces on meat hooks and
offered them for public sale, she said
to show the Turks contempt for
GsSsk Christians.
what most irapresses the eye OF
the. visitor in speaking with these
unfortunate people in their sad, an
andsfurfowed faces. They have been
driven. about by the invading foe UNI
til they have reached the point almost
of despair and distraction.
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