New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-05
800 FLEEING WAR
SEEK PEACE HERE
New Liner Brings Bulgars
and Turks, Quitting
Settling Balkans.
BULGARIA'S FALL AND
GREEK REVOLT SEEN
German Alliance Fatal, Physi-
clan Says-Greece's Officers
and People at Odds.

Six hundred Bulgarians and 200
Turks fleeing from the Balkan war
cauldron came to this port yesterday
in the steerage Of the new Greek liner
Vasilefs Constantinos, which left
Pirmus September 20. The rest OF the
l,44l steerage passengers we're Greeks
All were held for special examination
to-day at Ellis Island.
Tho steamer also had big second
cabin list of 446 persons, who were
examined by the immigration officials
on board, the work lasting well into
the night
Among the ffty-four saloon passen-
gers was Dr.. Rhudes Jacinsky, OF Chi
cago. who was In charge Of the Amer
lean Bohemian Red Cross contingent,
known as the rockingham unit. lie
predicted the downfall of Bulgaria and
It's complete extinction from the map
Of Europe.
81 went to Serbia to fight typhus
and other diseases" ne said, and nave
been there year. The sanitary con-
ditions are much better, and 10 IA no"
time for Americans 70 withdraw from
the Balkans. There is no question as
TO what Bulgaria is going to do. she
is going TO turn upon Serbia ana ara
the Central Allies. but in doing so she
is going 10 exterminate herself az a
nation. She will be wiped off the map
Of Europe and will have only herseit
10 blame.
81 know the Serb, and admire him.
Serbia is a wonderful little nation and
is stronger in n military sense than
most persons imagine. Her soldiers are
plentiful, well trained and mighty brave
Il E.-l hn
steadfast and brave. With Greece and
Serbia attacking her on the south and
the west and Russia striking from the
east and along her only coast line,
which is on the Black Sea, Bulgaria
will soon be in a bad way"
Mrs. Leo Alex, wife OF a Greek mer-
chant i'm Easton, Penn, was another
saloon passenger She had been on a
six months visit with her three sons
who were at school in Athens. She
returned here because Of military dis
turbances, and predicted a revolution
in Greece.
when ! came away from Athens a
few weeks ago" she said. "the outlook
for unity was not favorable. The peo-
pie as q whole are for the Allies, but
a large percentage of the Greek OFF,
Gers. as well as the King, are pro-
German. | think when the time comes
for Greece to take offensive action with
the Allied troops there will be trouble
in holding the Greek officers"
The Constantinos brought over about
thirty missionaries and their families
who had left Turkey, Egypt and va
rious settlements in the Near East.
Before leaving, a warning had been
sent out BY the heads Of the boards OF
foreign missions TO say nothing, as IT
was feared that those left behind would
suffer if unfavorable statements should
find their way back to the Moslem dis
tricts.
In the second cabin came Thomas
Meloy. a son of Andrew d. Meloy, the
American broker and real estate opera
tor who was arrested on his arrival
here on September 80, on the steam,
ship Nieuw Amsterdam, for alleged
completely in the fraudulent passport
used by Franz Rintelen.
The young man said he had been IN
Austria, Germany and the Balkans
writing articles for magazines and for
a newspaper in Chicago. His father,
out on $4,000 BAIL met him at the pier