The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-11
GREECE HAS HOPES
OF BEING EXTENDED
If Entente Program Of Elimination Of
Turks from Europe Is Carried Out
As the Result of the War.

Athens, Oct. Correspondence OF
| The Associated Press If the Turk /.
to leave Europe, as the entente allies
have required in their war terms, then
there is well defined belief in the
Balkans that two results will occur OF
high Importance to Greece and all Eu-
ropes
First-Th%t the Greek inevitably will
succeed the Turk throughout Thrace and
| in the whole region down to the Oar
danelles and the Bosphorus.
Second-That new zone of territory
! friendly to the entente will thus be
stretched horizontally straight across the
Balkans as barrier to the German
dream of making the Balkans German
highroad TO the Orient.
Professor Andreade Of the University
of Athens, one of the foremost authori-
ties on international affairs relating to
the Balkans, holds this view, and in the
course of a talk to-day he explained how
these two results would naturally come
about in the final peace adjustment. by
reason of the principle of nationalities
now accepted by the entente allies as
a basis of territorial readiustment.
Professor Andreade, who is specialist
on the extent of Greek citizenship be-
yond the Greek frontier-in Macedonia
and the other Balkans, in Turkey, Syria
and Asia Minor-ponted out the great
predominance of the Greeks in the re-
gions to be evacuated by the Turks if
they are to leave Europe.
The whole vilayet, or province, of
a Jriono,,1o nx+anJ,na, IL Del
down TO Constantinople, he declared, is
as much Greek as it is Turk and with
the Turks out of it is practically all
Greek. Even Constantinople," he said,
with a population of $4,000 Greeks
rs a Greek city-the largest of Greek
cities with a population of $4,000
Greeks. That gives an idea of the ex-
That gives an idea of the extent of
Greek citizenship iB all this section down
to the straits, which will have to be con
sidered, on the basis of nationality and
race, when the Turk leaves Europe.
That is why l say" added Prof An
dreade, that if the Turk is to with !
draw, the principle of nationality which |
recognize the racial condition of a COM |
munity, will lead to the recognition of |
ton. Thus far, the principle of nation.
atty has been ignored and violated in
all Balkan settlements. and force has
prevailed. Austria and Bulgaria have
not occupied any of the territory an
1exed in recent years by reason that
heir race or nationality prevailed in
hese sections, but solely by reason of
heir military force. That has been the
ause of the endless wars in the Balkans.
or people are never satisfied when their
ace is ignored and they are attached
o foreign eonqueror by force"
Professor Andreade, referring to the
Balkan map, showed how the readiust-
nent of Balkan boundaries. based on ma
would interpose two barriers
TO Germanic expansion, toward Asia :
finor and the Orient, one, the Greek
one across Thrace, and another. the !
erb- Rumanian link of territory which I
les as a dam between Hungary and
Bulgaria. This Serb Rumsnian link is
My fifty miles across, but with Ruma- 4
ia getting the Banat region, to which :
rofessor Andreade saws she is entitled
Y the principle Of nationality, this en-
snte link will be $50 miles across. 6
And thus entente Europe can accom-
Iish what Il chiefly seeks in the Bal :
ans, said Professor Andresde, friend
I entente zones interceptiug the natural :
,ute Of Germanic expansion toward the
rient, and this can be accomplished. not r
= force, but by the principle Of nation
ity now accepted by the entente pow ,