News from Constantinople and Saloniki
In our Missions' column, we have a short article from Brother C. Voigt, of Constantinople. In a letter accompanying it, he tells us that he had sent us something under date of September 2, 1912, with a dozen pictures, but we have not received the articles, nor the pictures. He tells us in this letter that he has to learn the details from the European newspapers, which reach Constantinople three times in the week, by the way of Rumania, and that in all probability we know the conditions here better than they know them there. And he pathetically adds that “Turkey, I am sure, is one of the poorest countries in all the world.” Our European Christians, he declares, are quite safe, with the exception of one worker in the field from whom he has failed to hear. He also sends us a letter from Saloniki, by Brother L. Spicer, but inasmuch as this has already appeared in the Review and Herald, we will not publish it entire. He speaks of the enormous prices on account of scarcity of food. The city is filled with soldiers. The Greeks, he tells us, are manifesting great joy because of the return of Macedonia, which they consider their own. He had just learned when sending this that the Turkish army had been utterly defeated. He also speaks of meeting the remainder of the Turkish forces, half-starved, ragged, wet to the skin. “It has been raining for some days, and the soldiers have to spend night and day in their wet clothing.”