SALONIKA AND THE ZEPP.

Evening Star, Issue 16079, 3 April 1916, Page 8

SALONIKA AND THE ZEPP.

Salonika was last night a town of w'ailin<* and apprehension, wrote Mr Ward Price on February 2. the day after a Zeppelin had raided the town. With daylight calmer emotions set in, and now the native population expresses indignation that it should have been chosen as a target for German bombs. Every one of the local newspapers, believed hitherto to have been subventioned by the German Government, says: "We cannot but protest against this 'unscrupulous proceeding, unjustified by any military necessity, and repugnant to" every ■right-thinking person." Even subsidies from the German Foreign Office, it would seem, are inadequate to reconcile its stall to exposure to German bombs. A certain number of residents, fearing that this visit may be the first of a are arranging to leave this eventful town! It ii beyond doubt that the- enemy's manv agents have furnished them with a plan oi Salonika, with every building occupied by the allied troops marked as a suitable point of aim. Several places* of this kind wove clearly tried for. Front a gymkhana held this- afternoon on the plain to the north of tho town one. could look back and eee the Bank cf Salonika's warehouse still pouring up smoke from the smouldering embers. "What an example of British 'frightiidne&s for any Bosche who flew over now," said a Frenchman, clinging to one of the waggons that served as a grand stand. " 'Jlie Engli-h heartlessly amusing themselves with sport whilo Salonika burns!"

The broken night which many had passed did not interfere with the ruocees of this fiititlittlerace meeting, which was a welcome relief to the monotony of waiting lor the enemy to come on. There was a real bookie, who is now a sergeant-major, displaying the inevitable sign of " The Oid Firm," under alien sides. The course was thickly lined with a khaki orowd, mounted and afoot. Several French officers had entered -for- the jumping competition.