. Salonica and after : the sideshow that ended the war / with a foreword by Sir George Milne . ngalong, and the bent native porters, with immense loadsof all kinds on their backs, narrowly escape the fate ofthe foolish tortoises, which on summer days wanderlazily across the Macedonian roads and are flattenedout by our lorries. At Piccadilly Circus (that is whatwe at once called it and what many of the natives nowcall it) the congestion is tremendous. Here one broadhighway comes down from the Struma front, the famousSeres Road, and another comes down from the Monastirregion. East meets West her
. Salonica and after : the sideshow that ended the war / with a foreword by Sir George Milne . ngalong, and the bent native porters, with immense loadsof all kinds on their backs, narrowly escape the fate ofthe foolish tortoises, which on summer days wanderlazily across the Macedonian roads and are flattenedout by our lorries. At Piccadilly Circus (that is whatwe at once called it and what many of the natives nowcall it) the congestion is tremendous. Here one broadhighway comes down from the Struma front, the famousSeres Road, and another comes down from the Monastirregion. East meets West here, if you like. PiccadillyCircus is on the edge of the city, and every variety ofBalkan peasant and gipsy is marketing there, and buy-ing all sorts of funny things to eat from trays that standjust off the main stream of traffic. British militarypolicemen, majestic and amazingly competent, sortout the tangle, always just one second ahead of is nobody like the British A few yards along the Monastir Road and the visitorarrives at the Canteen. He has a long list of all 44. Salonica in the days ofthe Allies. A Section ofthe crowd listening to theFrench Band in the Placede la Liberte. Some of theComitadjiswho work-ed for theBritish inthe StrumaValley.
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