Photograph from Brown Brothers 

 SEA WASHING OVER INTO THE MAIN STREET OE SAEONIKI 

 Barrels from lighters washed ashore. Traffic suspended. 



would it have been more difficult for him 

 to corrupt his keepers or to escape, and 

 he spent three and a half years as a pris- 

 oner in the suburb of Kalamaria. 



REMOVING THE EX-SUETAN 



The outbreak of the Balkan War, in 

 the autumn of 1912, made it advisable for 

 the ex-sultan to be removed to Constan- 

 tinople. He was most unwilling to re- 

 turn, however, and was only persuaded 

 to do so by an emissary of the German 

 ambassador, who took him through the 

 Greek blockade in the dispatch boat of 

 the embassy. 



A few weeks later the Greek army en- 

 tered the city, followed closely by a 

 smaller detachment of Bulgarians. The 

 final treaty of peace, signed at Bucharest 

 in 1913, adjudicated Saloniki, with the 

 remainder of the Chalcidice and their 

 strategic hinterland, to Greece. But it is 

 apparently written that Saloniki shall 

 never long enjoy the blessings of peace. 

 At all events, an army of the Allies, as we 

 know, is now entrenched there. And he 



is a bolder prophet than I who will fore- 

 tell what may yet lie in store for the 

 people of Saloniki. 



There is another aspect of Saloniki 

 which is scarcely less involved in dark- 

 ness and controversy, but which leads us 

 away from too dangerous ground and 

 offers a perhaps welcome escape from the 

 harassing questions of the present. It is 

 not surprising that so venerable a city 

 should contain most interesting relics of 

 its past. What is more surprising is that 

 these should be so little known to the 

 world at large. 



AMERICAN STREET-CARS PASS UNDER 

 ROMAN ARCHES 



The oldest and most accessible of the 

 antiquities of Saloniki is the long Street 

 of the Vardar, slitting the town in two at 

 the foot of the hill. This street is a seg- 

 ment of the old Roman highway from 

 the Adriatic to the Bosphorus, which 

 earlier still was the Royal Way of the 

 Macedonian kings (see page 213). 



The street is not particularly imposing, 



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