The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-22
GREEK REFUGEES
 ARE IN SALON|KI

Saloniki, April 22. CCorresCon- dence of The Associated Press.)- High up on the hills of this bustIing Macedonian city Is a picturesque set clement where 5000 Greek refugees, driven from Asia Minor by the mas sacres of 1914 make their homes Hundreds of other Greeks who were interned by the BuIgarfans In Do- brudja during the war have joined them recently. The houses in this refugee camp were constructed by the Greek government. 4 space equiv aIent to a large New York furnished room is allotted to a family of from five to eight.
 The settlement has been given the pretenuous name of The Quarter of the Triumvirate" in honor of Greece's three great modern patriots-Pre- mIer Venizelos, Admiral Kountou- riotis and General DangIais who, re | spudiating King Constantine, espoused the cause of the Allies when Ger many sought to-, win over the Greek army. Many of the people have been helped by the American Red Cross and speak gratefully of the United States and it's people.
 As the Associated Press cores pendent was visiting the village, two ox-carts loaded with Greek refugees who had been driven bX, the Turks from the villages along the Sea of Marmora in 1913 and 1914 and who during the present war were expelled from Macedonia by the Bulgars, made their way slowly up the steep %o3 ha6 I1St come from Dobrudja, to the south ot Rumania, where they were practically exiled by the BuIgars. 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 years old. The won der was how these little ones, sickly and undernourished, were able to survive the long trip by train, motor truck and ox-cart.
 The faces of these returning refu- gees wore an inexpressibly sad and harassed look. For five years they were driven hither and wonder by Turk and BuIgar 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 constant intimidation, was the lot of some of them. Three fifths of a pound of black bread 3, day was the pitifuI recompense they re- ceived from the BuIgars. Often those too weak to work were beaten by their ruthless masters.
 One refugee declared to the cor respondent that at one time there were more than 60 deaths & day among the refugee colony in Do- brudja from ma1nutrition, exhaustion and exposure In certain sections, he said, the Greeks were forced to live largely on the rinds of watermelons which the Bulgarian soldiers threw in the streets.
 The older residents of this refu- gee "suburb' of Sa1oniki. most of whom had fled from different parts of Asia Minor during the wholesale massacres there in 1914, have bitter experiences to relate about their treatment by the Turks. Some of these people lived in the city of Pho cis, where the whole Christian pop uIatfon either had been driven out or were kllIeu py lIl6 l dA fAS. iAo ffO~ men wept as they told about the out rages of the Mos1ems The wors: story was that told by an intelligent peasant woman. who declared that in a butcher-shop opposite her home in Phocis, she saw the Turks take young girl who was considered 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 Greek Christians.
 What most impresses the eye of the visitor In speaking with these unfortunate people is their sad, wan and furrowed faces. They have been driven about by the invading foe un- til they have reached the point al- most of despair and distraction.