LIBER'S NOTEBOOK

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 52, 24 November 1917, Page 11

LIBER'S NOTEBOOK

Macedonia Stern and Wild. !m'nl- 01 "T iS c, 6 , 0m0 e° Cd fitllff iu a little '.?°S ,\ Salonika With Our Armv," by ,i,? , Ml, " ro - Mr - Munr ° Bive a rlr h J ; "iploasing account of MaceBim?h an i lls L m i> k - rha couuti, y is i L-rawn •«' ?, tony wilderness, sparsely oui op Wlth , 19t1e9 an(l haunled by mosIm «?, 'f vrUlci ?' he ea i'B, hnvo charged ■th 3 n T°l thOT *™l« of our Hldion iri rl l,erd . u , ra J bl ° malaria." Tho natives aio desenbed as "accrotivo and suspiciuu=- Mr. Munro says:— vou or s h, h n 3 i 3( t , ho -, law ° r Jlacpdonia, that eostlv hL ot , b . u ! lcl yoursl!lf «■ secure and t?mo < te e V!hlch y ? ur cnem y may at any ehSu tt Z? r tako fo , r , WmseJf ; y°« than L? a n Breon fields or a »y m ore vonr ™l ri * Pessary for yonrself lest to your y i?l ßha ! U 1101I 101 mako nn ca "' rolld down H » •»? lest your CDCm 5' come i TZhL m J y t0 yo,,r destruction. It hoiißH ?LW < sarOT t0 have so Voot u s ? ,™» ll is not wortll "i" burning. catH» a cr °P. that J t i= not worth tho worth t/ , f 0 n s Slil a roa<l tUftt ilia n °t worm th c travelling. One of the greatest difficulties before Sarrail has been tho inadequacy of the roads. im, i l3 wV 11 no Iva 7 t0 faul ty engianer- »"«,. Out to the distressing quality of tho road metal available for construction 5?1 In his ll,st cl 'aptw, Mr. in-L ,i J- but doeß Dot g»ve much new information on that point. A "Times" !, I!°7 er f. the book, noting Mr. Munro'e curious reticence about tho Jews of Salonika, remarks:— tho s Panish-spcakin S Jew romm«r !i fuU ,W f ? r his financial and commercial activities in flalonika. itsolftlf« « i orago cont racte, catering and n ft <aii has concerned himself in K rates) eor T th . er .°. f « a., proilteor. S™l' let thcro aro many wolllnformed men who are fully porsuaded that our presenco in Macedonia ia verv ' tt n r f y nfl a™ to tho dislike of the numcroS ?h f '" fluol ? tia l Hebrews of fialonika for pHv P A^^-, p ?i ltica <""K>ltioiu of their thA Alii lf t thc , r r° 1S an impression that influence of tho Salonika Jowa in tho omt, nd r hr 18 J!;« cor^ 3I l OD( [ inß boli " f entertoin. Ed by many that theso eame folk will haTo a considerable say as t» the noli{{f al f rearraniromcnte to bo made? tlioro iu

Tho Airman. . From what tho "Times" calls a "finely irr.aginntivo rhapsody on tho airman's solitude and tho death that.lurks iu the clouds, Tho Airman," by C. 31. Tath'am, I tako tho following lines:— Tho mau -who loses tho earth Eiils a seauncharted, Yet here in the air I bow to no man as master Here with the birds and tho clouds our opomnj cages. To Aeolue, God of winds, I can call as comrade And raco with him heltcr-pkeltcr till both of us tire; But tho -birds will not own me, nover an one comes near, Nor trios me for resting-place as a travelling ship— liittlo birds, bo kind to a man who has taken wings » And must learn so much ero ho rido as surely as ye. M } 7u u Ire ' ro lonely for the sense of tho earth. Tho companionship of tho seasons, the company of months; Hero a. cloud can hide Juno or a wind can bring us Dccomßer.