VANISHED HOMES OF FRANCE
PEASANTS SEARCHING FOR THEIR OLD COTTAGES,
THE HONGKONG
gather sudalent wood and bricks | Hartwig, instigated
| to make a home again, takze dominate iscedonis in defiance
1912.
In some villages where timber of the Serbo-Bulgar Treaty of is plentiful building has already begun. Each peasant builds his
(3) In the autumn of 1914, when own little shelter. out of certain offers were made by the planks he finds
among the Entente at- Sofia, the Tsar's ruins.or may bur
at an Minister, Savinsky, to my own Marguerite Cody, the special Army salvage sale. These knowledge, added the condition correspondent of the Daily News in some cases are sheds built that Russia should occupy the upon the foundations and leaning seaport of Varna, thus arousing Lille. Saturday.
against the walls of the old the deepest suspicions, The party of women delegates houses; in others they are more who are visiting the devastated pretentions-two-stories
writes
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M
(0) So late. as October, 1914, we bad not made a definite offer even of financial assistance.
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Branch
Mr. Oliver T.
Braakspear
Mr. W. G. Browell Mr. N. Burns
Mr. E. M. Joseph "
Mr. J. Korteweg
36 Kalk
M.. 迟 T.Kidd
Cap
&
Lennox
Sir. Lesara, 3 Children and
Lauritzen Mine. Leiria ***Cant, Liddell
Mrs. Liudell
Miss H. Lillie
Mr. G. Ludio
Mr. H. P. Moors
Mr. D. McLeod
Mr.
J. McLean
Lastian
1.
X.
Meszes
thismen
Mr. C. C. Malis
Clarence
Mr. J. F. Men-
dalsschn
and child
& MAL Bartelme Capt W. Black" (3) The London Treaty, which Mr & Mr. R. & even, secured Thrace to Bulgaria as far. Boe areas of Northern France were with a sloping roof and green-as the Enos-Midia line, was ticke received yesterday by the Deputy-painted windows,
signed under pressure from Great | Mn J. Bentley. Mayor and Corporation of Lille.
to the black-shawled Britain. It was therefore regard-Mix E. R. Balilion Mr. and Mr. C The fine Town Hall of the city women as they go to do their ed as a breach of guarantee when Mr RJ. Birbeck having been burnt down by the marketing in the municipal shop, we
allowed Turkey to retaker Mrs. S. Bis- Germans before their final retreat and they will say they have been Adrianople. in October last, the reception took back a week or perhaps two. One woman whom I met amid place at the Municipal Offices
Here in the hall where hangs the heap of ruins that once was the flag carried at the head of the the little factory town of Mer- (5) From first to last, offers British division which relieved ville, with a string bag contain-worthy of the name were not Lille, under General Birdwood.ing her day's purchases from the made. In June, 1915, it was an on Oct 17, 1918. M. Crepy, the local committee's shop, told me.nounced that the "uncontestedra M. S. Crow Deputy Mayor, made his speech she had slept last night for the zone of Macedonia was offered Mr. W. F. Cri Capt. Matthieson of welcome. speaking of the first time again under a coverletto Bulgaria, but Serbian consent. mond friendship between the two Allied For two weeks she and her hus- which was stated to be given, was countries and of the sufferings of band and two children had slept in reality coupled with reserva- Lille during four years of Ger-on the floor of their little tions which actually covered half
barriquement," or wooden hat. the area in question. man occupation.
FAMILIES ON THE ROAD. These families
are the Many stories of life under the vanguard of the returning army German occupation were told by of refugees. The rest are on the the Councillors present.
For road. Already the carts that you four years, they said, 20 British pass on the roads are loaded with soldiers were hidden in the bedding, tables, kitchen utensils, cellars of the town by the citizens, and garden tool, saved possibly who saved food for them from in their flight, or more probably their meagre rations allowed by supplied by the American Red the Germans. Any Frenchman Cross Committee for Relief. This who was seen to give breed or committee, with a headquarters cigarettes to the British prisoners. at Lille, is doing a fine work in forced to work in the fields when almost starving, was immediately sent to prison without trial.
FOUR YEARS IN A CELLAR.
Mr. & Mrs. H.
Mr.
Collins
Mr. F. W. Cax Dr.
& Mrs J. M Daly
Darheim
Mr. & Mr. P. D.
Dann
Mr. G. B. Dana
Mr. F. E. Davis
Cavalera El Ele Miss E Esusu Min K. Enno Mrs. A. Frazer fr. G. H. Fox Mr. J. A. Fortune Mr. F. Goalder Capt.
B. V. Cameron (6) In March, 1915, there oc- Mr. & Mr Stuart
Cameron an episode of great. & M. E. A curred importance. The Bulgarian Carvalho plenipotentiary in London was Mr. Co invited by a Minister of the Mr. W. T. Coutts highest authority to telegraph to his Government an attractive proposal, but when the Bulgarian Mr. Government replied, making a definite request for a statement M of the Entente's intentions and saying that the Government would then come to a decision, supplying household necessities the proposal was abandoned by
Mr. A C. Dodge to the peasantry, whose goods the British Cabinet, and after Mrs. J. A. Donne were destroyed when their homes long delay a cold answer wasapt. J. B. Evans Before the reception the women
were swept away. Of the 5,000 returned: delegates visited the "Palais des inhabitants of La Bassee only 7 We retained at Sofia a Beaux-Arts," one of the finest art 280 have returned to search for Minister of notoriously violent galleries in Europe. The pictures the little plots of ground where anti- Bulgarian views. Not till which were carried off by the once their house stood.
eight months after the war began Germans to Brussels have been
In the countryside, out of eight did the Foreign Office recall him. recovered, but are not yet rehung of the ruined towns and villages. His recall implied that he had Among them are works
the signs of the awakening to life been kept at Sofia when a different Vandyck and Watteau. The Palais is
of the country is more apparent man was required. An impression sad example of still. Beyond La Bassee, where of hostility to Bulgaria had been ruthless vandalism."
the road winds across the new allowed to prevail till the most canal bridge. and on to Lille, we favourable moments had passed. Yesterday, in as Army char-a-drove between newly-ploughed CO-OPERATION WITH THE ALLIES. banc, I visited that sector of the fields stretching for nearly five (8) Whereas it is now denied old battle front of Northern miles. These areas of newly-that Bulgaria was at any time France where the Germans put up their last desperate fight for Paris and the Channel ports. As the vehicle bumped and jolted over the half-filled shell-holes the driver told me of swift journeys by night, scarcely, a yeer ago, with ammunition and troops, along these same roads, when the British fought in the streets of and on the battlefields of Coinchy and La Bassee.
a
Sunday.
turned soil, where the peasant, with his singlehorse plough, was still at work, were soothing to eyes which had just gazed on the wastes of the La Bassee and Cuinchy battlefield.
TILLING THE WASTE..
Everywhere along the Lille road the countryside is growing daily more like that of the parts of France unsullied by the
invader.
ir A. C. Graeme r. H. B. Gallop Mr. J. M. Good-
C00
Mr. A. O. Class"
M. N. C. Gal Mr. J. 5. B. Gar
diner Mr. & Mrs. J. J.
German
ton
Mex S. S. Hartil- Mr. C. Henriques
willing to join the Allies, there are incontrovertible witnesses to
H. H. D. the contrary: for instance:
Remmel (a) The Dardanelles Commiss- Mr. & Mrs. P. ion
Hollingsworth which Report,
contains
Capt. T. P. Kall suffcient evidence that the Mr. G. Harper co-operation of Bulgaria was
Mr. A. Holgersen. was considered Mr. W. P. Holz expected, and
heiser obtainable.
E Hooper Mr. James Isbister
(b) Ambassador Morgenthau's recent book.
801
Shelton
A
H.
Mr. & Mr. S
Murray
Mt. E. J. Maban Mr. H. E Marlin
Miss V. Mason Mrs. L. McNumer Mr. & Mrs. T. R
E McInnes
Dr. G. W. McKenz Mr. and Mrs. N
MacIntyre
Master Mcintyre B. Meyersobu Mr. & Mrs. J. EL
F. La Nanze
& Mrs W. P. Neeson
Mr. J.S. Nicholson Capt A Oldear ~~Barger
Mr. & Mr. F. A
Pollock
Mr. J. L. Plomme M. C. R. Powris 3ft. C. Ricon Mr. Y. J. S. Bam-
ble
Mr. E E. Ray Miss F. Beay Mr. A. G. Kendall Mr. D. Bassell Mr. & Mr. M.
Raymond Licet D. Taylor Mr. R. H. Sharp Mr. & Mrs. G. G.
Streadwish
A. P. Mr.
Spiers Capt. W. H.
Sparke Mr. A
Samuels Mr. G. T. E
Stedman
MA
Mr. J. H. Stickler Mr. C. E. Seybt
F. Skamer Min H. Mrs. W. H. Sparke Mr. & Mr. Steens.
by
Mr & Mrs, CE
Templeton
Me. E. Travers 3r. Thos. Vint M. & Mr. J. E.
Williams
Mr. & Mrs. R. H.
Thinery
Mr. P. C. Tomg General Yanenke Mrs L. 3. Joblin Colone! Yaran
Jackson
Scarcely a hundred (c) Mr. O'Beirne, who was ap. Capt. and Mrs. R. 60 MILES OF RUINS,
yards was without its little group pointed our Minister at Sofia incron Our way lay from Lillie through of workers, old men, and boys, the spring of 1915, and whose Mr. E. S. Joha Armentieres to Merville, Bethune, digging laboriously, and white tragic loss (along with Lord and La Basse It was 60 miles of coiffed women equally as sternly Kitchener) was such a heavy one Mr. J. ruins and shell-swept waste. It bending over their shovels. We to the Diplomatie Service. He seemed sadder at first in its ab are going to plant it all again insisted that even up to Sept. 6, solute desolation than the trenches with wheat,said one old peasant. 1916, a few days before Bulgaria and the No Man's Land of which though with the soil so poor I mobilised the Bulgarian Govern
Yet ment had refused to sign the Mr. & Mrs. F. P. our soldiers used to speak. But fear it, will be a bad crop." as the car rattled over bridges by summer I think there will be agreement with Turkey; that the and railway lines, pas: estaminets fields of waving corn where six intention to fight against the Mr. & Mr. G. C.. and tiny salvage camps, one saw months ago there was a desolate Allies had not been formed; and that it arose only when the the first indications of the change waste.
ultimatum was sent to Bulgaria by Russia.
slowly creeping over the land that has been torn and battered
by four years of fighting.
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Mr. G. L. Allen
Mr. W. A. Knight
Alabaster
R. G. Aiwell Mr. P. Bania Mr. W. A. Bot. Mr. & Mr. B.
Serfield
Ξεπίστ Mr. & Mrs. Mur (9) The parts of Macedonia Capt. L. Baker:
Par Scott not. C. W. Barton
C. B. Bird allowed representation in the & Mix. D. 'K.
Blair Parliament (in itself a proof that the populuation was not Serbian), Mr. C. M. Blaker MLS. Baiseva.in and the able-bodied men escaped, & Mrs C. B. when they could, across the Brown
Life is creeping back to the FAIR PLAY IN THE BALKANS. occupied by Serbia were
BY NOEL BUXTON.
deserted fields. In the villages the sights and sounds of normal existence are once again percep- tible. In little groups of twos and tbræes the refugees, scattered" to
"If rumour he correct. self- frontier, where I saw them in Mr. & Button distant parts of France by the determination, as the basis on great numbers in September, Capt
Eater. successive offensive marches of which a League of Nations must 1914. the enemy are returning to build be built, is to be dropped in the new homes out of the ruins.
Balkans. The territories to be
T
Coolhas
E.
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M
J. Finlay
Mr. & Mrs. W. J.
Milne
Mr. & Mra. Maider
Mr. D. MeMurray Mr. & MIL F. H
Nable
Mine Phillips Mr. T. L. Perkins Lt. Col. & Mr
Tharaby Pelhata Mt.
Pilger
Maj
J
J.
Mr. E. A. Ram MI.. W. E. Roberts
V. Scantlebury Lt. Stevens Mrt
Mim Stabbings Mr. A. Findlay
Smith M. & M. V.
Findlay Smith Gen F.
Mrs. R. Almand Dr. E. M. Asger Mr. F. G. Becka Mr. Basker Mr. LE Brown Mr. J. J. Barry": Mr. A. E. Bätt Mr. Lud Mira Bridger & family Mr. D. P. Chapple Mr. J. G. Chad-
Mr. Choi Shing and
201
Mr. B. G. Douglas' Mr. W. Eboral Min Farrell
Mr. J. Forrest
Mr.
J. Farrell
Mr. J. Fetherston-
baugh
Mr. P. Fielding Mr. J. D. Forrest Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Mr. J. H. W.
Good win Mr. W. Hawkes
D
Rev.
Bundle, CI THE SUPPORT OF GREECE.
Mr. H. J. Brett Everyone knows now that our In a tiny village on the Mer-adjusted by the Conference-
Mr. P. C. Comarie villa-Bethune road I saw the Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace, Balkan diplomacy was at fault, Mr. A. A. Claxton blacksmith, still in his soldier's the lands, that is, which were and that we erred in preferring 17. J. Cochrane blue, repairing an old rusty plough preserved to Turkey by the Berlin to angle for the support of Mr. A. Coenrsać
Cales for a neighbour, while other agri-Treaty are to be utilised not as Greece. At the critical period it Lt. Col. G.
was still believed that because M, Mr. cultural implements, in varons their populations desire, but as
Venizelos was pro-Entente, King stages of dilapidation, awaited his material for rewarding or punish Constantine would be the same. . E. J. Coomer attention. In the cobbled streetsing individual belligerents. of Habourdin, entered by the
Mr. & Mrs. John If the Fourteen Points are to We put our money on Greece, Cormack
end
the result. know те
Додски British only last October, while be departed from in this respect the Germans still held its nor the world may have a heavy Greece has her proper reward frx O. Eager Maj thern suburbs, "a motor-plough price to pay, for the insistence of in the Greek parts of Asia Mr. S. Erin passed us on the road ridden by a the Balkan peoples on national Minor. To reward her by subject. Mr. & Mr. Y... Mr. F. D. Wilson Miss F. Hemmes French soldier, who was evidently claims has shown itself capable ing the Macedonians to alien fand taking it home to plough his little of dragging rope into war. In domination accords neither with plot..
the case of Albania, although justice nor with the provision of total destruction is not threaten-security for future peace.
Serbia naturally clung to her ed, it is proposed to curtail the Looking at the waste and already too narrow limits of a gains in Macedonia while her Mr. & Mrs. C. T. desolation, one can only wonder nation which has at the best only legitimate expansion to the north
REBUILDING THEIR HOMES.
mounds to make again a produc
BULGARIA
orice were..
Fassi
Mr. J. P. Hughes Master C. Hammer Mr. & Mrs C. J...
Homes
Galloway
Maj. Wakeman Mr. 36. 3. W. P.
1. Zmager
Mr. A. Harrison
Mr. B. James
Banman
ST. Grozcz'a Hevés, Corrected to 6th June, 1919.
Mr. H. Q. Kasper- Mr. A. Kirk Mr. J. H. Lloyd Mr. & Mr. J.
Loui
• Mr. G. Mellis Mr. IL W. Morse Mr. Fred B. Soape Mr. & Mrs. A.
Toffe Mr. J. Walin
Mr. Wm. Blackelt
at the courage and hope of this sufficient numbers to develop and west remained unsecured. Mr. & Mit 2 2. dauntless peasantry, who are national life.
Now that it is assured to her, her
Boyce
J. continued domination of hostile Laut.
7. striving out of these deep pits and
Bryant, K-E Macedonians would constitute a
Mr & Mr. Benton tive garden, and to reconstruct The suggestion for Macedonia gratuitous provocation to future C. Byrd out of this crumbling pile of is more serious still. It is that we war.
Mr. B. 8. Church I hold no brief for one side or Mr. Cruickshank bricks the snug little homes that should entirely deny the rights
and wishes of its people. The the other, but what we must have Mr. B. T. Emerald- There is a little village just ground on which this proposal is first in view is the desire of the beyond Armentieres, where I saw made is that: the neighbouring Macedonians, and before they are. Hittle kitchen gardens as State of Bulgaria which would be used as pawns, or punished for English allotment, presumably benefited by self- their neighbours conduct the fresh and smooth determination in Macedonia, has above points may well be borne ach one put itself outside the pale by in mind. Let them decide for
fighting on the wrong side. There themselves. If they desire Ma
certain facts, obscured by autonomy, they ought to have it. 6. Dania recent evepia, which ought not to. Only when they have determined
their own
once
this
Mrs. J. Johnstone Mr. T. Kennedy Mira. Kilbre and
child
F.
Capt. K. Larssen Mi H. G. Lewiz Mr. S
MeBrown Mr. J. B. Meide Mr. J. Macfarlane Mr. & Mrs. Moline Mr. J. Pauger
Mr. F. A. Pater
Mrs. L. 1. Peace MIL W. C. Pas
Mr. M. Ramjabn Mr. & Mrs. C. E
Richardson'
Mira Robertson ... Mr. B.-K. Spencer Mr. E. Striv
Mr. & Mrs. Stewart
and family
Mr. T. R. Taylor: Mr. and Mr. W.
Underwood
Mr. & Mr. Wes-
Bow and cli Mr. E. Wiliams and
Mr. Wyzenbeek and child Mr. J. F. Walker Mr. G. F. Watton
Yr. J. Welth
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Mr. J. Basta Mr. J. W. Bonthes Mr. E. Car Mr. E. Cockburn Mrs. F...
Cameron Mr. W. Dipstre Mr. & Mr. N. G.
Dozza Mr. Wa
W Lush
Raymond Mr.
Faller Mr. & Mrs F. G.
Barkli
Correct (to 39h: May, 1918. Mr. C... Alexandra, da var.
Martin >Olson ·
Mr. O. Healey
"Mr. M2 Healy!
Mr. C. Mohler Mr. E. H. Madi!! H Mr. Chas.
"Keylor Mr. N. Nagle 32. W. T. Nell Mr. Th. Penches Mr. Wa Bon Mr. J. U. Bhoevers 'Mr. & Mrs. D. F..
Bhaler
Mr. J. Swart
Mt. F. L. Smith Mr. F. J. Selwood Master
Belwood
Mr. E. Skarelav
Mr. A. Ade
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