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Show GREEK REFUGEES ARRIVE JNJEVV YORK By Inlernational News Service. NKW YORK, Sept. :.'4. The Greek liner Vasilet's Conslantinos arrived here most of whom are 'refugees from the Greek island. Among the steerage passengers pas-sengers were a targe number of Levantine Levan-tine Jews who escaped from Kavala just before the Bulgarian occupation. On the voyage the Constantinos was held up at Gibraltar by the British an-lodav an-lodav from Piraeus with passengers, thoritles and 3'i bags of mail taken off. Among the passengers was Michael Pond off. a United States citizen of VoungRtown, O.. who went to Europe for his health in 1014. Vendoff was at llut-chuk. llut-chuk. Bulgaria, when war broke out, and as he did not have a passport. was promptly drafted Into the Bulgarian arm y. He war attached to the Red Cross corns and saw service in Serbia. A few months nsro. he says, he saw a hatch of British prisoners brought in. Among t hem he recognized an Irishman named John Murphy who worked beside him in the Westlnghouse factory at East Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. "I was not allowed to speak to Murphy." Mur-phy." said FendofT. "A few weeks apo when my section was sent to the Greek front. T managed to get across the Greek border. I ran for it and finallv succeeded in making my way to Athens, and then aboard this steamer." Paul Kapodista of Pan Francisco stepped ashore from the ship wealing the uniform of a Greek lieutenant. He said he had spent three years in the Greek armv and was returning home for a visit. "I expect to be ordered back almost as soon as T reach Sa n Francisco," he said. He is fullv convinced that Greece will enter the war within a short time. |