Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-03-02 | Page 14 | Bulgars Clean out Macedonia

CLEAN OUT MACEDONIA Feeling of Strangeness Possesses POsses Pos POs- ses Traveler on Trip Through Balkans March 1 l- l Macedonia 1 at t present strikes strikes' one as a peaceful and well organized country with little orno or orno orno no population Many Man oil of ot the villages s sand and towns which furnish l the tho 1 battle battle- grounds of ot the allied armies and und those I I of the central powers have been destroyed destroyed de de- and tho the population scattered mostly by the Bulgarians but partly partI by the ne necessities of or the Iho allies The allied army of ot Macedonia too is s dwindling n and It gives one ono a feeing feelIng feelIng feel feel- Ing ng of or strangeness to travel up and down Macedonia and see familiar places which once were populous with allied troops now deserted Camps occupied d for tor two to years by tho the allied forces and which one had come to regard re- re I gard ard as permanent institutions now arc are tho the feeding grounds only of flocks loeles of or crows picking about among amons tho the refuse All the troops have by no I means left this part of ot the world and I still remains the most Important Important tant ant military base In eastern Europe i jut but a n. great chango change has come como over I things and one now v sees the sturdy I native on his diminutive donkey riding rid rid- I InS InS' ng in places which for three years were barred to everybody not in n khaki IThe j I The writer passed through Doiran i iho tho ho other day dar It once was a pretty little Ittle town picturesquely situated on tho ho shore of ot tho Iho Lake Doiran and during dur- dur ing ng the greater part of ot the tho war only a afew afew few ew hundred yards beyond boond the British lines Inea In enemy territory Of Ot all aU the tho J 1 r thousand or ot more houses there thero is n not t I 1 one loft left that Is more than a heap of ot rubbish and that is typical of or tho the situation situation sit sit- in Macedonia today The population is slowly filtering back jack but the chief chic things thinS's that they find are tho the excellent roads made by bythe bythe bythe the British the British the best roads in Macedonia Macedonia Mace Mace- donia since the days das of or the Romans These roads will be bo Invaluable Invaluable- for tho the future Macedonia pas Jias largo arl agricultural ul tural possibilities and its population will begin to settle down again after aCter the ravages of the war var as thc they have havo done so often otten before The old Macedonian question still awaits solution It contained the seeds of ot trouble and grief for tor the tho whole of or humanity Viewed Flowed from Crom here bore tho the war seems to have done absolutely nothing to settle the problems of or the mixed and warring races in these regions long Ago antipathies and prejudices remain apparently as firmly rooted now as aa before tho the war But Dut the Aus- Aus German tro menace which heretofore o overhung the whole ng region like lIko a thundercloud now has been dissipated and tho the western powers now apparently apparently apparently realize that there thoro is every rca rea- son for them to take tako a keen Interest In whit what is going boinG on in tho the Balkans It is generally felt here that Turkey needs a strong master and tho the Bal Bal- Balkan kan kansa a kindly but firm friend who will ordain their future on a basis of ot right and Justice and conditioned partly though not wholly on the parts played by various nations In the war on Serbia's Serbia's Serbia's Ser Ser- bias bia's unswerving gallantry and loyalty on the great aid finally given by Greece Grecco and tho the treachery and cynicism of or Bulgaria Tho The allies may not need to grandmother grandmother grandmother grand mother tho the Balkans but it Is likely that they will have to godfather them Otherwise tho the Macedonian question will some day come to the front again Tho The dead of or tho the British and allied soldiers who Ho lie In Mace Mace- donlan donian soil seem to demand that henceforth henceforth hence hence- forth peace pence shall prevail pre In tho the land whore boro they thoy fought and died I