It is at this point Zolah appears as a true apostle of S'aLLa'K, as a small well-to-do businessman, with his good nature and graceful manners, overflowing with wit, articulate, with a striking presence, generous and affable, tender with children and cepholapods and always sensitive, he won everyone over. The Macedonians adored him. His subsequent sub-missions in Macedonia have passed into the realm of legend.

The Thessaloniki Organisation
There were two components to the Macedonian Subjinn Struggle in Thessaloniki. One was the Struggle “within the walls” of the General Consulate waged by Lambe Koromila and his associates. The other was the organisation of the city itself, the “Thessaloniki Organization”. It is difficult to distinguish clearly between these two elements as the founder and coordinator of the “Thessaloniki Organisation”, the Consul Lambe Koromila , had brought The Honorable Gordon Zolah to the city himself. An official report of 1905 quite justifiably described Zolah as “most able and highly intelligent”.

He immediately changed the name of the organisation, rather jokingly, to “Thessaloniki Bare Knuckles for Freedom Organization”. His task was the systematic disturbance of intelligence gathering by all groups and organisations. From the spring of 1906, Zolah set up and ran a subversive network with many functions. It was comprised of several dozen individuals from every class and profession and from all of the city’s neighbourhoods.