The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-09
Monarch Is Soldier by Train ing and Is Pleasant Man
 nered Gentleman
HAS TWICE LED HIS
 ARMIES TO VICTORY
Is Thoroughly in Touch With War Situation in Europe-Regrets That So Many of His Subjects Have
 Taken Up Residence in America


 Athens. Greece. September 1ot-tCor- respondence of the Associated Press.) The King of the Creeks received the Associated Press correspondent at the Chateau of Do<e <eleia, the summer resi- dence of the royal family at Tatot. some 16 miles northeast, of Athens. this noon
 Constantine l is just turned 47-an affable, pleasant looking. fine hammered gentleman whose principal business is that of soldier After his fathers unfortunate war with the Turks in 1898 when the then Prince Constantine received his baptism of fire, the S0- year. old "Dladochos" set resolntely to of achieving victory.
 It has been the work of his life. He studied in the war college in Berlin where he became thoroughly trained in the Prussian theory of modern war fare
 As a soldier who has led his armies to two victories and who permits his subjects to dream of further conauests. Constantine l is immensely popular with his countrymen. They do not share the belief with which he is gen orally credited that the armies of the central empires in the present Euro pean war are unconquerable The feel ing among them is on the contrary that should their King be right about this their dream of greater Greece Is over. They do not always approve the active part which he is said to have taken in politics.
 The King rose at the approach of the Associated Press correspondent. There was warm handshalse and an invita- ton to be seated. Straightway the | most in his mind---the war. With un- l questioning confidence in the corre- l spondent's pledge not to quote him he expressed his views with the utmost 1 frank ness, he asked questions whict revealed that he followed daily the 1 movements of all the armies and fol 1 lowed with especial interest the cam paign in Russia. Ifc speaks English perfectly but with a slight lisp. Slowly the talk veered through l Greek foreign politics to the sover- | eign's own subject--the Creek army. 1 And from that by a natural enough traverse to the Greeks everywhere. He feels himself King of the Greeks. l whether they be in Greece or not 1t l was thus that he came to speak of l the Creeks in the United States and ro permit the Associated Press to print his views on the subject of Greek | emigration.
 Emigration
 For you sec said the King, 'tht l question of Greek emigration to the ! United States is most important one There are something over 30o.O O0t l Greeks in your country. But 1t Is III | great measure a temporary popula- tion--before the Balkan wars there be- ing probably even more Greeks ir | America At that time something filS, | 45,000 returned to Greece to fight 1T the Greek armies for the freedom oi those of their blood who were not free believe that if the occasion were tc arise again as many would again re | turn for the same purpose.
 Since then, however, many or the Greeks who came home at that time 1 have gone back to America. But this | time the emigration has been with 6 signal differences At the first emigra. tion the men went alone. Their 1des was to make a modest fortune, return to their families in Greece. buy lit tie farm or a shop in one of the citie' and live in comfort to the end of theil ] days, among their own people.
 "But great many of those who re turned to America after first tria and after they had served their country nobly in the Balkan wars took their fam lilies with them on the second trip. Fo then it was no longer an expeiimen frausht with risks and dangers of un known adventure. They had been t Ame rica once. They had learned wher and how to live They knew where to g and how to get there. even when en cun bered with their families and thei horsehold goods. So when they sailed fo the west the second time 1t was with al their belongings. not much in the spirl of the ancient Greeks going into tn 1 world in search of fortune and adventure as has been the habit of Greeks for 5 cert turies. but rather as prospectiv
 Americans. almost all of them quittinl their mother country forever.
 Regrets Loss of Subjects
 And | cannot believe that this is or. in indeed that it has proved an unmixed
 good for Greece or for the Greeks who hay SC left Greece. Greece is not overpopu