Balkan News

The Balkan News was a daily newspaper produced in Salonika for the British Salonica Force (BSF) fighting on the Macedonian front.There was also local advertising and an “Orient Weekly” column written by editor Harry Collinson Owen under the pseudonym Comitadji.[citation needed] The Balkan News is mentioned frequently in ‘Salonica and After’,[1] which was written by its editor Harry Collinson Owen.It was described by Cyril Falls in the British Official History of the Macedonia operations,[2] as "one of the best Army newspapers of the days of the war" The Balkan News was referred to by Alan Palmer in ‘The Gardeners of Salonica’,[3] where he noted that “Even after half a century, its files show the determination and doggedness underlying the mocking self-pity that was as fashionable in Macedonia as it was in the trenches of Belgium and France” In “The Macedonian Campaign”,[4] Luigi Villari, who was for two years Italian Liaison officer with the various Allied Commands in the East, said that "“The British had only one paper, The Balkan News, edited by Mr. Collinson Owen.Although written by one of the editors, and much advertised in it, the Balkan News is mentioned only once in the poem, when its 'hero', after being wounded in an assault on the Bulgarian trenches, had a spell in hospital where:
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