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Race should bc explained that while enormous numbers of 

 evxct%ons Bulgarians and especially of Greeks were being 

 evicted from Turkish Thrace, the same sort of thing 

 was going on in Greek Macedonia. According to 

 local records, 243,807 Turks were forced to leave 

 Salonica in the steerage between August, 1913, and 

 February, 19 14, bound for the Dardanelles or 

 Constantinople. Meanwhile upward of 40,000 Span- 

 ish Jews, finding life in the city intolerable, had 

 sailed for New York. 



In Athens it was generally claimed that the 

 migration of Greeks from Thrace was due to 

 "persecution by resentful (Turkish) refugees, tol- 

 erated by complacent ofiicials." On the other hand, 

 some asserted that the return in multitudes to 

 Salonica arose from a "desire to settle under the 

 blue and white flag" in a land supposed to be 

 flowing with milk and honey. It is pretty evident, 

 however, that the first theory came nearer the truth. 

 All this misfortune harks back to the Treaty of 

 London. The Concert of Powers should either have 

 sought to do justice in Macedonia or else have let 

 the region entirely alone. 



]ohn Some five miles to the eist of Salonica lies the 



^Zle agricultural mission of John Henry House. This 

 enterprising American missionary had taught the 

 Macedonians how to till the land and develop model 

 fields of Indian corn and other grains, easily doubling 

 the ordinary product of the country. He had also 

 imported blooded bulls from England, and was con- 

 sidering the bringing over of some race of sheep 

 which would produce from five to ten pounds of wool 

 instead of the pound or two borne by the local breed, 

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