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NZ Truth, Issue 584, 26 August 1916, Page 4

SIEGE-.HAUNTED SALONICA. The story of Salonlca Is n talo of traKedy: history luut jrpurrd her nothing In the way of dlaaiuer; nil the misfortunes have been, drawn to her by Homo fatal, mytiterloud mmmetlftru. During th« twenty-two eoniurle* of her llf«t every n«o ha* brought lt« ovll and wrought lt» havoc her«« Sine*' (he middle of the nixteenth century, for «*xnmi>k», there have been no fewer than t'lKhte<Mi uorlou» viniuuiouH of p)ai,'u«' »nd cholera; thirteen Umejt In th» same period thf city ha* be«n wholly or pnrtlally burned down; on woven uKcauioii!* narthquukcd huvo laid H'.iiMnirii more or Is** waste, Down the ft|jp« of h».r hlAiory »h«i has known mnnter» from nearly ev^ry Old World clime: from n^rly *>vvry avn. ror»air» hnvr ronif hither t«» pillage; s»he hn« drunit !p the very le^.i of ttre oup of I»Utern«*-ii!i: j*he lw« been the apple at iltscnrd t>.m<>fl(s many rti^r*. Ilellenle, Roman. Hywntlne, Norman. Frank, Lombard. VVnettan ?»hd Turk (nit ha» Kstlonic^k Wen, and now it U» under Oreek nwfey. with a TurkUh Mayor! Are the «ior»ui of hUtory over?