SALONIKA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 21, 29 April 1916, Page 4

SALONIKA.

Salonika, according to Mr Ward Price, is infested with thieve:, "Such ingenious schemes have been discovered," he says, "as that of tunnelling underrieath the fence surrounding; a depot and thon ereemng in at night to rob crises of supplies lying inside, the goods being pissed out through the tunnel while the empty cases are Jeit

I in position so as to create an appeari anoe of everything being in order. ! Even incidents of combined attacks Upon lonely lorry drivers at night j have occurred. These practices, however have been vigorously dealt with, ' and the British military police confiscate stolen Army supplies wherever they are found. The knowledge that this is done makes the receivers! of the goods chary of buying them,] and with the disappearance of a market for the products of the theft the inducement to commit it is dimiais.i-j ml. It is around the base supply tie-■:

pot that the busiest scenes in Salonika are to be found. Gangs of Greek j labourers pad to and fro carrying cases on their back-' from the jetties to the piles that already stand 30ft. 1 high within a barbed wire fence. A

list of them is kept from which gangs! are taken on. They make good, workmen under an energetic foreman, | and with them at least the presence! at Salonika of the 'Johns,' as tljeyj call .the English, is thoroughly popu-

lar. The name 'Johns' they seem to have learnt from the oft-repeated order of the A.S.C. sergeants, "Come along, Johnnie,' and many of them are picking up quite a vocabulary of pidgin-English phrases."