The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-28
GREEKS THINK IT
A HOPELESS FIGHT
Two Of Them interviewed Yesterday by q
Tribune Reporter.
ONE OF THEM WAS IN THE ARMY
lie Was Compelled 10 Fly from the
Country TO Save His Head--He Is a
Nephew Of IA One Time President
of the Old Greek Repubiic--His
Uncle Is Now the Leading General
of the GreCian Army.

In this city Of Scranton, 1000 miles
from the scene of the Turco-Greecian
war there are only two native Greeks,
and one of them, a refugee, is a nephew
Of a one time president of the old
Greek republic. a cousin of the second
leading general of the Greecian forces
i'm the present war and his brothers
and other near relatives occupy dis
tinguishcd positions in the Greecian
monarchy.
The mans name is Anys Mavromich-
alis and he and his companion conduct
a small candy store at the corner of
Iackawanna and South Washington
avenues.
Anys. Mavromichalis has been in
America for a little over fifteen months.
His native home is in the renowned
Sparta, the capital city of the historic
state by that name. He left home be-
cause of some offense against the law
for which the death penalty rested up
on his head, but one month ago when
the European continent was shaken by
the thunderS of an impending war
General Antonios Mavromichalis, his
uncle, sent Anys a letter telling him to
come home that Greece would forgive
him as she needed all the men who
ever called her mother. This is lit
eral Interpretation of the letter sent to
Anys, the refugee, by the second gen.
eral in the Greek army.
THE GREEK COMMANDER.
General Mavromichalis is commander
of part of the Greek army. He Is the
second in rank to King George himself
L., 81 tol, nj
war printed in the papers, General
Mavromichalis is a conspicuous figure
in the movements Of the Greek forces.
He is a dashng and handsome soldier.
1t was General Mavromichalis who,
as stated in yesterday dispatches to
The Tribune, with 5000 men repulsed
the Turks at Larissa.
Colonel Thrasyboulos Manos is SON.
m-law Of General Mavromichalis
Colonel Manos is the sub commander
of the Greek army at Arta and it was
he who forced a passage of the river
Aracthos with $4,000 men in his charge.
1t was an uncle of Auys Mavromicha-
lis, our resident, who, in 1921, led sue
cessful revolution against the Turks at
the time when the sultan controlled the
Hellenas, and after the victory was
won the Grecian people elected him as
president of the republic.
THREE BROTHERS FIGHTING.
Peter Mavromichalis, a brother of
the man in this city, is a lieutenant in
the present Greek army. He has two
other brothers now in arms. Auys,
himself, was a soldier for three years.
and had risen to the rank of CAPTAIN
in the regular army
When asked concerning the letters
he receives from Greece, he explained
that 1t takes about twenty-five days
for them to reach their destination, and
the papers print news faster than
that"
lie would return to Greece to enter
| the army but, he argues, and wisely.
| too. The fight may not be tomorrow
| and may be five years" He and his
| companion, George Cortienes, who is
| only common Greek, live in Pine
Brock.
They show great familiarity with the
| nanoeuvres of the two armies and
| thinks that the cause of the Greeks is
| a hopeless one. Ten mans to one" is
! the way Cortienes expressed it. But
! when Thermopylae was mentioned
| both men went into a state of ecstacy
! They think that Greece, with her hand
| full Of men, can defend this sacred pass
| againsC a world of soldiers.
The Turkish forces are now moving
that way.