The Story of the Salonica Army
The Story of the Salonica Army
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Though chiefly built of wooden houses its fire brigade was simply Gilbertian, a wag once suggested in the Balkan " News " that as more water escaped out of the leaks in the hose than through the nozzle it would be more advantageous to lay the pipe sideways on to the fire. And, in fact, the Salonica firemen always proved themselves incapable of coping with the most trivial house-burnings unless reinforced by fire-parties from our Fleet. So that Salonica, with the huge fortune it has made out of ...us as a town, seems only rightly punished for the fickleness of its civic organisation.
As a spectacle, the conflagration must have equalled Rome burning. The part of the town destroyed rises as an amphitheatre within the still complete girdle of its mediaeval walls. Most of it is a maze of rambling, crooked little alleys, mysterious and picturesque. The church of St. Demetrius, forcibly converted for four and a half centuries of Turkish occupation into a mosque, but still showing faintly on its walls the stiff-figured frescoes that artists of the Eastern Ro- man Empire drew, has met this lurid fate at the end OURSELVES AND THE GREEKS 89 of its eventful history.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Though chiefly built of wooden houses its fire brigade was simply Gilbertian, a wag once suggested in the Balkan " News " that as more water escaped out of the leaks in the hose than through the nozzle it would be more advantageous to lay the pipe sideways on to the fire. And, in fact, the Salonica firemen always proved themselves incapable of coping with the most trivial house-burnings unless reinforced by fire-parties from our Fleet. So that Salonica, with the huge fortune it has made out of ...us as a town, seems only rightly punished for the fickleness of its civic organisation.
As a spectacle, the conflagration must have equalled Rome burning. The part of the town destroyed rises as an amphitheatre within the still complete girdle of its mediaeval walls. Most of it is a maze of rambling, crooked little alleys, mysterious and picturesque. The church of St. Demetrius, forcibly converted for four and a half centuries of Turkish occupation into a mosque, but still showing faintly on its walls the stiff-figured frescoes that artists of the Eastern Ro- man Empire drew, has met this lurid fate at the end OURSELVES AND THE GREEKS 89 of its eventful history.
What to read after The Story of the Salonica Army?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by G Ward George Ward Price to read onlineMoreLess
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