Republican farmer., 1918-11-22
ASIATIC GREEKS SEND MISSION TO
 THIS COUNTRY 10 SECURE HELP
Turks and Greeks Have Engag in Momenous Struggle for Supremacy, and Vitality of Greeks Has Remarkable Have Taken charge of Commerce and Schools and Have Waited for Opportunity to Regain Control of Country.

A friendly mission which has come to this country in behalf of the unre. deemed Greeks in Turkey includes among it's members Christos Vassalik- aki, member of the Greek Parliament, and N. G. Kyriakides, a prominent shipowner and trader. Both of these men have led busy lives in the world of commerce and politics. They have lately interested themselves in the liberation of the Greeks of Asia Minor because, as they say, they could not remain indifferent observ- CTS of the sufferings and misery of their compatriots. Although MT. Vas salikaki is a member of the Greek Parliament from the island of Lesbos he has lived part of his life in Smyrna 4nd is well acquainted with the Greek people who live east of the Aegean.
 "In no district is the world strug- gle between autocracy and liberalism more clear-cut than between the Turks and the Greeks in Asia Minor" MT Vassalikaki recently declared, in an interview. ''The Turks are the most brilliant examples in history of abso- lutism, imperial rule. and the doc Urine that might makes right. The Greeks were the worlds earliest champions of democracy The con- flict fin Asia Minor is little replica of the larger combat between the Rule of the people and the Rule of Kings which has turned all of Europe into a bloody battle-ground.
 Greeks Withstand Oppression
 Tt is probably hard for Americans to realize the tragedy of the long sla. very of the Asian Creeks" MT. Vas salikaki continued. Since 1453 tht Turks have made every effort to an nihilate them. In spite or Turkish ferocity, the Greeks have actually in creased in numbers Their vitalit, has been remarkable. There ar more than 2,00O,000 of them livinl today in the peninsula of Asia Mino and the lands commerce and educa ton are very largely in their hands,
 According to the latest obtainabl figures, the Greeks under the Turkis yoke in Thrace and Asia Minor hay 9,276 schools and churches with 10, 025 teachers and priests and 276, 10 pupils. They have also in their hand about 65 per cent of the export trade 70 per cent of the import trade, 6 per cent of manufacturing and indus try, and 70 per cent. of the bankin business The most important hosp tals, orphanages, libraries, clubs an newspapers are run anad supporte by the Greeks Before the war the were spending about $5,000, ,O0G eac year on public projects and charitie
 A Day of Reckoning
 The attitude of the Turks towaf Greek enterprise has, of course, bee unfriendly, The Turks are by dispos ton a rowing people with no great il teFest in business or goveFnmen The divine law, as written down the Koran, is the one code they sui Init to, and their interpretation of u Koran has been considerably diffe ont from that of the more intellige Arabs. There is, in particular, oi sentence in the Koran which, in M VassaliizakPs opinion, has eoloFed u whole thought of the Turks iR the dealings with the Greeks. Unable
 deny the vigoF and vitality of ti oEeei1s the prophet MohamRa