Omaha daily bee., 1912-10-10
OMAHA GREEKS Off FOR WAR
Eighty Stalwart Lads Couldn't Wait
for Orders and Have Gone.
FIVE HUNDRED OTHERS READY
Half Thousand Loyal Subjects of
King George Await Orders to
Move from Ambnasadoy Koi-
lkssoglau Mt washington.

Eighty stalwart Greeks. too impatien
to wait for orders to take up arms
against the Turks, lef Omaha last
evening for New York to embark fol
Greece.
Five hundred subjects OF King George
In Omaha stand ready to go and will
leave on the first train after word IA
received from Ambassador Koikazoglau
at Washington.
Word Is being hastened to all Greeks
In the territory adjacent to Omaha and
within day or two they will be flock
Ing here to mobilize.
Mass Meeting Sunday.
BY Sunday 1t Is expected that between
500 and 1000 Greeks. most Of whom arc
working on the railroads. will have ar
rived in Omaha, and 1t Is being planned
to hold a mass meeting In Baright hall
on that day. Definite arrangements win
be made at that time for general move
ment toward the seat of war.
The patriotism shown by the creeks is
something at which to marvel. Prac-
tically everyone who is old enough to
bear arms will go to the front for their
flag, and the roads and manufacturing
plants employing them will be greatly
hampered for help. Even those who are
established In business are winding up
their affairs or leaving them in other
hands that they might return to their
native country.
Montenegro's initiative, as reported in
this mornings papers, has melted every
Greek in Omaha to activity, and word
is expected hourly to return to the old
country and take UP arms.
Athenasios Mouzakiotis an importer
and prominent business man OF Chicago
has dropped his business interests en-.
tirely and Is now In Omaha to get a line
OIL his countrymen In preparation for
war. He win visit all the big cities in
the west for the same purpose
Prominent among those who are or
ganlzing the Greeks of Omaha and sur
rounding territory is Pericles Cokos.
president OF the local Greek council and
a prominent business man who conducts
bakery at 724 South Fourteenth street.
Until two years ago he was a lieutenant
of the Third company, Grecian artillery.
and has seen much active service. Lieu
tenant Cokos is arranging his extensive
business affairs. He owns several bak-
cries In this country and expects to leave
with the other volunteers In q few days.
He will probably go next week.
Greeks are In no way bound to return
to their native country in time of strife.
but their great love for the flag and their
hatred toward the Turks, wo have per-
secuted them for centuries, kindles the
fire Of patriotism in every breast
Lieutenant Cokos. like all Greeks. is
deep student in history, and is partic-
ularly familiar with the Balkan sltua-
tion. The center Of the present strife is
In Macedonia, where there are great
many Greeks, also Sery.ans Bulgarians
and M9ntenegrins-all of whom are Chris
tians. The Turks are all Mohammedans
and they refuse to allow the Greeks and
others In Macedonia to establish their
own schools and churches They would
make them all Mohammedans. This situ-
alton has existed for centuries, but ii did
not become SO acute until the young
Turks came into power. Turkey has al
ways managed to keep the various states
at variance with each other, and here
tofore 1t has been impossible to form a
Balkan alliance Of sufficient strength to
combat the Turks Now that the states
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