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Show LOCAL GREEKS ARE WILLING TO FIGHT IN "fEEEDO.'l'S. CAUSE" a Fifteen husky and well built Greeks, with their souls filled with the love of liberty and a desire te help free an oppressed people, applied to Acting Chief John Hempel at the police headquarters this morning for Information aa to where they rouid enlist In the army of Inaur-rectloa Inaur-rectloa that la harassing tlie Mexican readier troops Just over the border. Tha Oreeka said that they had all been working steadily, and each bad a comfortable com-fortable bank ml) to prove his assertion. They had wearied of tha humdrum existence ex-istence on tha railroad gradea and In the mines and were thirsting for adventure and near evpertencea. Tley wanted Information In-formation as to tha manner of proceed-lug proceed-lug to tha frontier, and desired to enlist In a body, promising to recruit a full company, every man In financial condition condi-tion to pay his own expenses to Mexico, and te arm himself In regulation style. The Greeks were told that such action on their part would be a violation of ths federal lawe of this country, and thitt no Information could he given them legally by any citleen of the f nlted States; and that they could not enlist In such service In this country without falling afoul of the law. They left the station expressing their determination to find a way to reach the ranks of tha Inaurrectoa. |