Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1925, Page 20

20 ° BALKAN REFUGEE SUFFER HROSHRS Dirt and Hunger Add to Mis- ery After Possessions Have Been Taken. articles by Mr. o hastening emi: the Balkans ‘and (TALs is the th Wood dealing icith gration of ird o . WOO0D. ce of The Star and the GRAD —Twelve box of the world al of an American car—containing 406 emigrant refugees arrived a the fron- tier station from Greece the evening before I came. Some days only a few hundred refugees find their way here. Other days br b or 3,000, Vir- all same condition cal ana mental misery and ly destitute » last of any cash they »m_their wrecked [ and despoiled homes has been used to pay their raflroad f deagatsch i ( s ater | been driven from their nd forced to leave their pos. ind. they must pay be and $40 for a diminutive car to bring them the last 90 miles from Greece to Bulgaria. But that is not all._ A present of $15 to the rail- | road offtcials s customary in order to get a If the refugees ca ot pay they can live in the flelds around Dedeagatsch and face starvation until their fleeing countrymen urces take them aboard Sacrifice Crops and All ily tha s a car for itself sior a rarity. Last n e veraged 34 persons, or between five and six families, to each of the tiny cars. In addition to the s train a THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. | EXILED FROM MACEDONIA Too old to walk, but this woman has been forced to give up her home in | the exchange of refugees which is proceeding in the Balkans, the circum- | stances of which have been described as a blot on civilization. B. Wood.) would permit them to bring from their | showing the value of his farm and | once prosperous homes. That was not | the property he has been forced to much |leave. All with whom I have talked For the possessions they leave be-|have insisted that the Greek authori- | hind the refugees may receive a | ties refused to give them such papers. trifle, but usually they get nothing.| The system for encouraging ‘‘volun- The fields homes in which they |tary” gration followed by the and their forefathers have lived and | Greek rnment to obtain la for tofled for centurles are taken by the |its own refugees and to comply with Greek government. This is a favor- |the demands of the League of Na able season for driving Macedonians tions for more and more lands for and Thracians from their homes—they | colonization {s, according to the vic- leave the standing crops planted|tims, exceedingly simple. A family of earller in the vear | Greek refugees from Asia Minor, or of If he can, the emigrant may sell his | native Greeks who desire better prop movable property and live stock be- |erty, is installed by the local Greek fore leaving. As it is known that he |authorities in each of the Macedonian is being forced to leave within a few | homes. in a village. The owners of the days or weeks, he seldom finds a |homes are restricted to one room in buver. It is easier to wait and get the | their house beings—dirty, hungry and f) Woodward &LothropDownStairs Store Tomorrow Morning We Commence Our Annual August Coat Sale es We Believe Difficult to Duplicate .50 This, Our Feature Group in Sizes for Women and Misses Offering Smartest—Latest Modes $ in Fur-Trimmed Coats \ Pjctured at Left New Wine Red Lustrous Broad- cloth, the fashionable fabric for Fall. New shawl black fur collar and cuffs. Featuring the back flare. An emphatic $30.50 Sale value at...eecee Center Sketch Smart Pansy Color Broadeloth Coat, tubular model, with the new question mark fur collar. Splendidly made and $30.50 an emphatic value at Cuckoo Lustrosa Coat employ- ing Fitch dyed mandel fur trim- ming in addition to an inserted side flare that is extremely smart. A particularly $30.50 striking value .. Other Coats in Annual AugustSale $20.50 Feature Values Values such as only large purchas- Beautiful models ing will secure. of Imported Tweeds, Suede and other materials. lined and interlined with or satin de chine. Beautifully fur trimmed. Wanted Fall-Winter col 16 to 44. Also 13%, 1514, 17Y and 197 for little women. ! | goods for nothing |2 clear, healthy skin by usin Every eek commandant of the vil- pposed to receive to the head of the f: Valu Black Broadcloth Coat, empha- sizin: mandel fur collar and cuffs and banding. An emphatic $30.50 value at ........ Fashion=Right Styles Every fashionable detail in the Fall mode is seen in this Sale. Flaring godets, flounces, new tunic effects, front, side and much-talked-of back fullness, many new inter- esting sleeve treatments, new shawl, mushroom and tuxedo collars and other flattering necklines. Fashion=Right Materials Broadcloth, Pinpoint, Buckskin Suede, Campus Cloth, Bo- livia. And as to their workmanship—we expect you to be as enthusiastic as we are when you see how painstakingly these coats are tailored. THESE FURS are lavishly used—Black Lynx, Natural gguirrel, Skunk, Wolf, Beaver, Dyed Oppossum and Dyed andel. Fashion=Right Shades’ Every shade that’s in Fashion’s Blue Book. Epinard Green, Cuckoo, Cacklehead, Raisin, Canna, Sea Swallow, Snowberry and hosts of others, besides staple shades. Small Women’s Sizes Included _You'll be glad to know we have specially designed coats for little women who generally have such a time trying to find a coat to fit. Sizes 134 1514, 17%; and 19%;. MISSES’ SIZES, 14 to 18. WOMEN'’S SIZES, 36 to 44. DOWN STATRS STORE $49.50 Style---Plus---Value Authentic new modes. Shown in eight splendid, practical fabrics, richly fur trimmed with Wolf, Squirrel and Mandel., Colors— Snowberry, Pueblo, Pencil Blue, Pansy, Kit Fox and staple shades. Beautifully lined. Sizes 16 to 44, DOWN STAIRS STORE Pinpoint, Bolivia, Full silk crepe with fur Furs S ot ors. Sizes er 16 to 42. Pansy Dovebloom Coat of dis- tinctive style, with one-side man- del fur banding that offers con- tra duees th collar, $50.50 Our Finest Coats and Ormandale are featured in this selection. abundance. include natural and dyed 11uirrel, Beaver, Viatka, Fox and furs. some of brocade silk. Sizes from that he go to Saloniki and get permis- sion from the mixed commission of the League of Nations to leave Greece. They are ordered not to leave their single room after dusk and other re- strictions and persecutions of varying intensity begin. The peasant and his family can work in the flelds in the daytime—a Greek will ultimately harvest the crop, When life becomes sufficiently un-% bearable for him, and usually a re- volting misery for his wife and chil- dren, he goes to Saloniki at his own expense and a permit is quickly granted for his departure from Greece. It specifies a date when he must be out of the country. When he returns to his home with the permit, the authorities move the family, with others who are leaving, outside of the village. Their requests to be permitted to get their live stock and to load their carts with their possessions meet with explanations from the authorities that there is no hurry, that there {s no room for them on the outskirts of the village and that they are better off | on the farm. Finally comes the mov ing day, and a last request to get their proper s met by the firm reply that a Greek family is already settled on the farm and that to return would cause trouble. They are marched away from their own countryside with what little they can carry. Macedonia has an abundance of fer tile land that is neither cultivated nor occupied, stretching between the villages. There is room for all the Greek refugees. However, it is easier to drive the Macedonians from houses e furnished and from farms e cultivated and supplied with s and animals than to build new flelds of 5 vears and 9—stood near a little b the last remnants of FOR SKIN TORTUES Zemo, the Clean, Antiseptic Liquid, Just What You Need. Don't worry other skin trout about Eczema or es. You can_have Zemo. Zemo generally removes %1mp1es. Blackheads, Blotches, Eczema and Ringworm and makes the skin clear and healthy. Zemo is a clean, p trating, antiseptic liquid, that does not show and may be applied day or night. Trial bottle, 35¢; 1 $1.00. Zemo Soa D. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925. a home and family, the day T arrived at Svilengrad. Their mother had given up the fight and died in a crowded boxcar. The little girl of 13 was the new mother of the family. Their father was in prison in Cavalle —flve months without a trial. Orphans are not uncommon among the refugees. The record shows that 6,328 have been sent acros: der into Bulgaria. The many were Kkilled fighting Greek_army. On January 23 two itinerant Greek merchants were murdered 14 miles from Boutim, the village of the three chiliren mentioned above. iiext morning, according to the Macedo- nlan survivors, the villagers of Bou tim, Livadichta and Tzarnovo—within | nothing of the murders until told by | looks. The women 15 minutes’ walk of one another— | Greek soldiers. They say the deed | heads or silently wept wers surrounded by Greek soldiers. | was a pretext to get possession f ' The men in the villages wi bound * their v. All that they in the|and beaten, women | outraged by soldiers, pillaged and some burned. 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