The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1916. AFFAIRS AT SALONIKA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 20, 28 April 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1916. AFFAIRS AT SALONIKA.

When at last even, the'tolerance of the Allies towards enemy officialdom decided that it was time to suppress the band of spies which infested Salonika. and shut up the enemy Consulates there, some surprisingly interesting records and documents were discovered, some of which were made public, and they must have almost made the Huns blush. It was at least disconcerting lot the pro-German journals at Athens, which had so warmly resented the charge of corrupt practices brought against them by Yenizelist journals, when particulars of the accounts pan! to them at regular intervals by the German Consulate were made known to all men. The further disclosure that the Emperors of Austria and Germany had quite arranged to seize Salonika and make it an enemy naval base ought to be re-assuring to patriotic Greeks. This interesting little fact* as one correspondent a.ptly puts it, plainly knocks the bottom out of the diplomatic assurances given to Greece l\

•Austria that she had uo designs upon Salonika. Again, the immense stores of German and Austrian-made arms, ammunition, and bombs. which dun; up from the Consular cellars w*b pretty evidence of the game the treaIcherous Germans were playing- It »? -also stated that the German tonsil! I had even had the forethought to bring | in armlets and badges, many of them ; thoughtfully stamped with the Tmuisn

crescent to be worn by the lured ruffians, by whose instrumentality the town was presumably in due -season to be seized. The- Bulgarian Consul did his little bit by making full arrangements for arming and organising band<* of Komitajis when the moment for action arrived. When the mails left the overhaul of the archives at the various enemy Consular offices was not nearly completed, but there had already been found full reports of the German Consul on the numbers and movements of the Allied troops, lists of spies and others in German pay. Amongst other! disclosures are some letters of Madame: Anna Walter, the German Consul's wife. These, the "Near East's" Salonika correspondent remarks, shed a lurid light on the reality of Germany's loud professions of friendship for the kingdom of the Hellenes., "J ask you,'' says the lady, writing to a certain Her;Pfister, "if the Greeks will not move their little finger to chase away the Entente, ought our brave soldiers; ;to get themselves killed for these Greek canaille? If wo could only kick .tit the Greeks at the same -time as the troops of the Entente, then our sacrifices would not he in vain." Charming friends in which to put one's- trust these Germans truly, and perhaps even poor "I'ino" will one day wake ivp to find himself left cold.