Identifier: cradleofwarneare00wood (find matches)
Title: The cradle of the war, the Near East and Pan-Germanism. With foreword by A. Lawrence Lowell
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Woods, Henry Charles, 1881-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 Eastern question (Balkan) Pangermanism
Publisher: Boston Little, Brown
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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to the then choppystate of the water, their utility is considerably minimised.The town of Salonica occupies a magnificent positionat the head of the bay. Rising from the waters edgeand built in a horseshoe shape on the slopes of thehills, prior to the recent fire it was extremely pictur-esque. But with the exception of the comparativelynew street, which runs along the quay from the har-bour on the northwest to the residential quarter onthe southeast, the city was dirty and squalid, and itsthoroughfares were narrow and winding. Indeed, theoutstanding impression left upon ones mind was thatthe town constituted something isolated, somethingdifferent from that which exists elsewhere in Europe.In one sense it seemed to be completely modern,materialistic, and vulgar, whilst in another it hadthe appearance of being a sort of relic of the past.This may be accounted for partly by the fact thatthe nature of the population of Salonica is somethingquite unique. Out of a total of about one hundred
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o< H I < ? -«: s ■? O I O § « ^o < wwH aa THE RIDDLE OF SALONICA 251 and twenty-five thousand souls roughly seventy-fivethousand are Jews. These Jews, who are the de-scendants of those expelled from Spain by Ferdinandand Isabella, control the business of the city andsurpass the Greeks in their commercial ability andalso in society. Besides these Hebrews there areabout fifteen thousand Dounmes — a sect the realbeliefs of whom are not properly known to the outerworld. Distrusted by both Jews and Mohammedans,they live a life apart and never marry with the outerworld. It is from among their number that theYoung Turks recruited some of the ablest membersof the Committee of Union and Progress. The re-mainder of the population is made up of about twenty-five thousand Greeks, five thousand Turks, fourthousand Bulgars, and of a European colony, all ofwhom, so to speak, exist as a result of the sufferanceof the Jews, who dominate everything from the mostmenial work to that of ba

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