The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-07-24
DECISION TO DEPORT
GREEK EX-ATTACHE
Department Will Take Steps to
Send Young LadirOs
From Country.
he BLAMES HIS SUPERIOR
Declares Charge d'Affaires Has
Been Against Him Since
the Two Quarrelled.

WARRINGTON. July 23.---The Depart
ment Of Commerce and Labor has de-
cldcd to deport Spirp Ladicos. the for
mer attache Of the Greek Legation
here.
THE SrN told in these dispatches this
how proceedings had been
begun against Ladicos on the ground
that he was on "assisted alien: that
his expenses In reaching this country
had been paid by young Frenchman.
Ladicos served as honorary attache Of
the Greek Legation until about five
months ago, when l.. l.. Caftanzoglu.
the Charge dAffaires. received word
from his home Government. as he as
serts, that the popular young attache
was descrter from the Greek army
and was accused Of other offences.
Mr.. Ladlcos did not hesitate tonight
to charge that the deportation proceed
ings against him were begun at the in
stance Of the Greek Charge d'Affaires.
Ladicos added that he is the victim Of
spite.
The former .attache la 90 years old.
slim, smooth shaven and Of more de-
cided Hellenic cast Of features than In
seen In the average Greek who comes
to the United States. He declared to-
night that Caftanzoglu's enmity was
incurred through disagreements be.
tween them after he had begun his
duties at the legation.
Ladlcos contends that he was to re-
ceive q salary for clerical work at the
legation. but that after four months
had elapsed when nc asked for his
money he was informed that he was
an honorary attachc." The dispute
over the salary. according to the young
diplomat. was what first led to the
break between him and the charge.
A lark. in which the charges auto
mobile figured. also was the cause of
friction between the two. Ladicos,
however. Is the one who describes this
incident as lark" Caftanzoglu. 1t
was learned to-day, had him arrested
along with one or two others on the
charge of having taken the automo-
bile. Ladicos. however was cleared Of
this charge In the Washington police
court.
Ladicos declared tonight that his ac-
quittal jnfuriated Csftanzoglu to such
an extent that he went to Attorney
General WiCkersham and demanded
that I.adlcos be retired and punished.
1t has been said that If Ladlcos is sent
back to Greece proceedings will be in
stituted against him there. In reply
to this statement the young man said
tonight:
IL am not afraid to go back to Greece.
as I know there Is nothing / have done
which would make me trouble there.
but was intending to resume my orig
inal profession OF newspaper writer and
publisher in this country and to be-
come an American citizen.
1T Is true I was sent out OF Italy
and II was at the request of the Greek
following an article wrote
about the Greek Government in a re-
publican newspaper in Rome. My uncle
is a high officer OF the church in Rome
and l was educated in the schools and
university Of that city. Consequently
I am as familiar with Italy and the
Italian language az II 1t were my birth
place. However. when / was IS | re-
turned to Greece and served two years
In the Greek army as an 'ffioer.
Some time later when was
Gent to Athens ns correspondent OF my
paper In Rome. when the King Of Italy
visited Greece. l was in the city several
weeks without any effort having been
made to arrest me-
Soterios Nicholson, attorney for tho
Greek Legation. when questioned In re-
gard to the case declined Ia comment on
II.
The movement to depor, Spiro Ladicos,
the former attache Of the Greek Legation
in Washington. on the ground that he is
an assisted alien. i'm other words. that his
coming to this country was financed by
has aroused much. discussion
among Greeks and Italians in this city.
The Italians are not complimentary in
their remarks about Ladicos. and some of
the Greeks assert that the facts in the case
are not as they would appear to be in the
official statement of the case.
The editor Of an Italian newspaper said
yesterday that Ladicos was in this city
three years ago. ostensibly as a corre-
spondent Of French newspaper. He
pictures him as dress suit attendant on
anarchist meetings and the proposer of
a plan to organize a company to invade
Spain and to kill the Spanish King in re-
venge for the execution Of Ferrer, It also
was made known that Italian anarchists
in this city suspected that ladicos was an
q gent of tho Italian Government and that
he simulated anarchistic enthusiasm for
, purpose no, friendly to the real adher-
ents Of that political philosophy,
The editor of a Greek newspaper. on the
other hand came to THE Sun Office to ex-
plain the case a. one in which spite work
a gainst Iadicos was responsible for the
to deport him. Recently this
editor received letter from Ladicos in
which the latter stated that a document
relating to his service in the Greek army
had been falsiiicd to his discredit. In the
letter ladicos stated that he possessed a
certificate Of honorable discharge.
II also was stated that Ladicos was not
in the diplomatic list as an honorary at
tache," and as matter Of fact the diplo-
matte list gives no indication that the
young man was anything else than reRu-
lar attache Of the Legation
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Mrs. Grace ia Re Tried Monday.