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Show - ' - 5l Ik 4 J 1H- "ST 1 IH 11 BACK ITO TAKF kUMK ACAINST TITPlfS ! i -i. i.u.iv ill liiJVE xVIViilD Wjrvlll O i 1 UfVI.k5 jAJ 3 Copytl-at 1012. bTihiNVWTorW Herald Oo. All fR I 1 1KbD wllh patriotism and eager to ijfi I taU UP "mis in the war of the ill I Balkan States against the Turks, J I thousands of Giceks, Servians and 1 Montenegrins have left New York I '" Europc Other thousands are fast M M MllJ"'n? under the call to arms, and every vjM utward bound passengci vessel will carry jgW, them toward the scene ot'tbe conflict 91 Thc cal1 ,las bn heard all over the mOf bind. Throughout the country there is o. ffl jcneral rcponse and pntriots arc prepnr-Wk prepnr-Wk ns to leave for the front. In the mines behind are sending wealth they have won bcre to thc aid of the compatriots they bave left. "The Balkans have been the plaj thin? of Europe for a century," said one Greek patriot, "but we believe that the time has uow come when all that will cease There is accord anions the governments In thc different Balkan Stales and in Greece, and extensive preparations have been made. Large sums of money have been spent in mobilization and tralnjng. "It has been thc dream of the lives of Serbs for generations to rid themselves of under Turkish rule. 'We hope 'hat wei I shall be left alone to finish the work vvoi bate started on." J I This was the expression of a Serb from ! Hungary I Thousands Fired with Zeal for the Mother Country, Leave to Answer Cat! to Colors. "America doesn't know what she can do." An Armenian, for several ycnr3 an American citizen, and educated in the i Ami man college m Constantinople, was & pea I. in;;. "Site hns no idea what her prestige is .n Kuropc and what her support, even her moral support only, means hi :i quc-tlou quc-tlou like litis. Shu hasn't realised her responsibility culler Because of her ilN- intcrestediiess. America can be of untold! . I v Registering for the Cause. help in this light for liberty." "It is necessary to distinguish between Serba and Servians." said Dr. Michel I'u- ! pin. president of the Serb-American I'cd- oratiou .tnd Consul for Soma, while di ......' ' I cussinjj the question. He is one of the most prominent Serbs in America and ouc of thc earliest of his race lo come here, lie came here as a boy and studied at ' . rnnylvanln. n the tot. jnrd nf ( Incase i cery section of the countrj 2 f U.i- war spirit i aroused auiong the oa-t oa-t i.ck of the Balkau Slates. r Already uinellin;: over the ocean :.s j3 ; fast jii careful captain a ad turbine I engines will take them are several thou-vind thou-vind Greeks and oiis of the Bajknu Males Kcry train carries rcjcrvisis and voIuuteer: fnim II:ist and Weal, aud ti.e headiiuarlers of the different Greek and Balkan associations arc undersong a bombardment if telegrams. Thoi s.u d--MiMterrd all over Hie country are cjzei walchins file new-,, wuitiur for s.-uip deliniie word to offer chemsulve t In ii service. Thci are en'er to so iome. Uirj bay, to fishl for liberty. Great Many Going Back. From the islands of Greece, from ibe plains of Mucedonia, from thc hill of Bulgaria Bul-garia and the fasluesses of Montenegro came settlor lo win their way in the great new world. They were but another tnb-jp tnb-jp utary to the racial stream in which is jfffc being mixed the best of all Europe. They ?1 - arc anions the latest arrivals. They have K -tlrcadj prospered so we.1! that they will xtm 3c of material aid to the countries they 2I "lave left. Great numbers ar goins back M with a wider experience and ideas from a "S new world, and those who are 9ta;ins A Buret of Patriotism. ibe iAc of i he Turk Tl.e dream duiex back lo ly1.). when the lurki were Qist iuccessful in Europe. Since that lime' they hae been rulin? au alien race, but little by Utile iheir sovereignty has been taken way. In the countries which hac won indepeudeuce a development has tnkeii plate out of all knowledge beyond that. Columbia LTniveralty. He has been pro ' fesor of mechanici there for tin .. twenty-three enrs. "There are Sorbs in the kli s l"" o , Serrla." said Dr. Pnpiii. "but ibt-re ir i many more out of it. The Serb r.ue m hnhilA Busiijn, Herzesovina. Moaiencsro In.iliuati.i. Old Servui and .Mnccilonin. Croatia. Sliivouin and-"the xnnhlsni part of Ilnnsir.v. All thee peoples are from lbc bailie rnce and xpeuk I lie same lan- iiasi. bin an under dlffereiil sown'ipa-J lies. .Macedonia and Old Servia are still i under Trrklsli rule. The kingdoms of i Servia aud Mouieucgro are independent, ( while Croat in and Ski von :u and Iluusnry ' are pari of the Austrian Empire. Ans- ' tria ha. alwajs stond in the w-ny of th" ! rcaliutiou of the dream of the Serbs of reunion of the different part.-, of their ! . race. ! Many Colonics of Greeks. j ' "Bulg.riaus. however. re nut Serbs." Tl.i. Iil. the Serbs, are n Slmouic race.' hut they are mixed wi;h the Huns Their 'h'l-guage is a curious one. The rcol iin-SIaonie iin-SIaonie aud the endings HunnUli "Suppose you had a brother who worked for somfcbody else, and you were free juur-eelf. juur-eelf. Suppose the num .vour brothei worked for was contiuiiall ahusiui: bin. land illtreating him. Aud suppose jou ..J.t.vt'vv'V-'",,'vr','-v,''"-'1 jcould continually sec it. Suppose it was always before your eyes. How wonld you feel, do jou think? Well, that's '.he Balkan situation. "The peoples of tho Balkans rose in the tcvemics, when Ihey could no longer stand jTurkisIi mismanagement, rapacity nnd absolutism. ab-solutism. They rose and fought, and were partially successful. Independence was (granted lo certain parts of the Balkans, and under Ihe Treaty of Berlin, In 1S7S. reforms were laid out for the government of those who still remained under Turkish iuIc. These reforms were never carried 'out. I "Thc peoples who were made free have iprospeied and progressed. Those who re-inalned re-inalned in tho Turkish Empire are where ithcy were. There is little incentive to sowing when you don't know whether lyou're going to be there, lo reap. So the i brothers who have prospered arc anxious to deliver those who are still oppressed That's the Balkan situation. "The brothers would have been able o help each other long before this. hoveer, if it hadn t been for the fears ami jcal- ..ii-,. . l S2K&ft -ftKSJK $$&2Z V, ftW-l M H ! MmMMdmkm, BSm JWm I A Silent Procession to the Pier. M ousiei. of thp European Powers, The question of Tnrklh iniriilc is-nut the only oue. E&eli Power Is afraid the nex: one may go in to take something for itself, and all eyes are on the harbor of Salouica. It is the bnt harbor iu ihe .Mediterranean and one of the liei in the world and i die key o the .situation iu the Near East." All the big cities of tin country have ir colonies of Greeks and Serbs. Chicago, Chi-cago, ft Louis. San I'mneisco. Tat or a aud Salt L:ke C. are all sendinv nerv-sts nerv-sts back. According lo mi estimate made y one of tho priests of the Greek Church lie numbers ofGrecka by cities uri: 'ew York. 23.000 10 30.0U0: Chlr-ago. JO.UUO to lio.000; Lowell. Mass. S.Onfl: l. Lou!. Pittsburg. Snn Ernnco aud v-ilt -aki City. 3.1'UO iieli. aud Kansas. Jity. C.UOO Of Bulgarians an jtimate plr.c the total number in thc country at l ihoiit C0.C00. The Greeks are said to total lOo.OOO. while Dr. Pupiu put ibe number .( Serbs here at '-'OO.CKJO. At a meeting of patriots, held In New-York New-York a wc 'k a-o a peifect raiu ' 'lills ;rr- jd "ie -niio ncenient made by the president of the Pan-Hellenic 1'nion lli.tt that orgiuiimion voi:i gie $l0.U0f of i;s funrles to hrlp families depenleut on rservl.ts who have gone back home. Similar meetings arc rrtportcd all over the country. From Atlanta. (5a.. came word that '1,0 had been "Msed amo the not very numerous Greeks resid-nt there. Euthusiasm and forvor have to make up foi many of ihe things which these patriots lack. In a room in a restaurant at No 7i .Morris street, New York city, about thirty Bulgarians met several limes last week, Tl ey were discussing theiatcst news from home and were arranging for the housing r it 1 care of Bul;nrians passing through New York on the way bark A line of color prints which runs around the room had evidently evi-dently bren brought o;er with thc Immigrants Immi-grants or at least had been brought here foi the immigrant maiket. The table on which the president spread his papers hml unuc duty earlier for a; frugal mnal. while n small sized table for playing pool bad Laen pushed to one side. The score marker hung over the speakers' heads. Ways and means were disiussed The btst way of returmug home was can-Misled can-Misled Would Austria interpose obstacles lo return. tig Bulgununs and Serbs? What course would inaKe their little money go tin longest way? While the deliberations-were deliberations-were going on ihe little child of the keeper 01 ibe restaurant, al-o brought fiom tin-other tin-other side, pushed a baby carriage about the room and finally bad to be removed crying when she insisted on trying to lakei -1 part iu thc deliberations. I The preparations which are going for I ward here are not haphnzard. A seneial mobilization order such as was issued iu I ihe Balkan States nud In Gicecc is a summons to all members of thc arm:e! where er they are. nnd also to reservists. All resirvists up to the age of fifty are required to present themselves at Ihe colors with the (cast possible delay. .Many o.' tin- men started home without any Instructions In-structions The news published here that 'i1vv''vl'Vl.w''v.-, I mobilization bad been ordered was suITi- t jcient for them. At the office of the Con- JH sulate General of Greece instructions were !H rccrived from Atbcus that nil men who JH hud served with the colors and all rcserv- 'H its were required to return. Thc Servian Consul General was nutifioJ by the Pre B micr at Belgrade that the mobilization H hod been ordered The news o the rereipt H of thc missages was passed along to the H dilfercnl colonics. H The organization of the Serbs is per H hap the most perfect of those here. Dr. H I'upln i at the head of it. Altogether H there are about (en thousand members In M the country and the federation I? made M jup of about two hundred brotherhoods. M Headquarters in Boston. H Among ihe Greeks the Pnu-Hellcnlc M Union is very prominent. Thc headquarters M I of tiic union are in Boston, and In the laxt M j week a lenrpnrnry ollice has been opened H 'in New York New York is thc port at M which nearly all the embarkation is goin: M on because steamships are more numerous ( M tl.rre nnd transportation facilities better M UiRii elsewhere, in tiip Iut year thc Pan- M ' Hellenic Union linn sien a great growth U Dr. Constantinc N. MIchalnpoulos. for- IH ' merly Minister of Public Instruction In H Greece, who spent thirteen yenr3 travelling H 1 'among the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire, M I 'came here nearly a yrar ago and became B t general manager ot he union. Ilf has M I travelled all through thc United Slnias. H ; 1 visiting colon. ea of Groel.f. in different H 1 cities Lie is now -n Ne York h-lping iu M the work of aiding rc.serrisis and their H families. H At the ollice of the Turkish Consulate 'o H New Yoik business contiuues in the same H tranquil way as of old. Though it is said H trbeiv an- about four hundred thousand H persons in the Unitfd States who cam. H from the Ottoman Empae. ihcre orp few H el the ruling clashes in this country H There are no hcenes lo parallel t4iosc of H the returning Greek, Bulgarian and Serb H axtxiu-t.avvxs.xvvxxvviw'." |