The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-14
OFFICIAL RECORD \ OF CONSTANTINE 2 IN i'WHITE BOOK"
Minister of Foreign Affairs Declares It Shows Serious
 Perfidy.

Athens, Aug. 14.-(By Mail. l.)-The Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Politis. was busy putting the finishing touch on the White Book. which IS 10 reveal to the Greek parliament the extent to which the recent administration or King Constantine was under German influence. when a staff correspondent of The Associated Press called on him today by appointment.
 This makes a serious record or perfidy,', the Minister said on glanc- ing over some of the proof sheets of the White Book.
 Asked what aspirations Greece was likely to have before the peace con gress. M. Politis said:
 There are, of course, the larger general questions in which the Enten- the Allies have shown common tnter- est, and to which Greece naturally gives the fullest assent-the indepen- dence and sovereignty of each state, great and small; it's territorial integ- .rity, as against the ambitions of oth- Ter nations; an international pact for tthe maintenance of peace, the obser- vation of treaties, and the re-estab- lishment of international law and practice in the dealings between na- tions.
 "Gerrnans Worse Than the Turks''
 There are several questions relating to the Near East, which Greece wishes to see regulated. Most important of these is the guarantee to Greeks living In Turkey and Asia Minor where we have more than S,000,O00 Greeks en- gagged in peaceful occupation. b,st constantly under the menace of fear ful atrocities. Throughout this terri tory Greeks have been subjected to the most barbarous cruelty, Hundreds of Greek towns in Turkey and Asia Miner have been burned. the inha bi- tants have been subjected to massacre and all forms of cruelty, and have been depofted in vast droves over tf.,ckless mountains and deserts to the interior of Asia Minor.
 .In~this work of cruelty we have proof that the Germans have been worse than the Turks. When the Turk has -hesitated at some extreme barbar. . ity. we have evidence showing that 1t has been the German General Staff Headquarters which has given the or der to proceed to the full limit in the extermination methods against the Greekhs
 The Minister was asked if Greece had an interest in the issue of nation
 
 by which Serbia aspires to detach the southern Slav nationalities from Aus trian domination-Cr Croats, Serbs, and 4 slovaks--and mold them into a great slav state of the Balkans
 @AS the ally and one of the nearest friends of Serbia we are naturally in- terested in seeing her aspirations req lixed. he answered.
 Greek Aims in the Agean
 "It Is as a sea-power. of the eastern Mediterranean and the Adriatic that Greece has its chief field of activity 7'' was suggested. ~
 Mot In the Adriatic." M. PoHtis re- piled flor our interests in Epirus and the island of Corfu are south of the strait of Otranto leading to the Adri- Afir. It Is Italy which has the chief interest in that locality. with its mill nary establtshment at Avlona, just across the Strait of Otranto from Italy One of the effects of the Bal. kan conference at Paris had been our recognition of these rights of Italy, as la military necessity of the present But, the whole question of the eastern shore, of the Adriatic. with upper Epi- yus and Albania. will be one. of thor. to De passed upon finally at the peace conference at the cioss of the war.
 It is in the eastern Mediterranean, and chiefly in the Aegean Sea that our field of influence lies." the Minister went on. The Aegean we consider a Greek sea and here Greek influence prevails throughout the island, down to Asia Minor As to the island of Cyprus, now owned by England if was offered to Greece during the re-, gime of King Constantine, on condi. uon that Greece would Immediately enter the war with the Allies But as we did not immediately take part in tne war, the offer does not hold good. There IS no desire to press England in this respect. for we feel that when the final settlement comes the eener- osity of England will make Cyprus q Greek island. It is already Greek in nationahty; with four-fifths of lis po- pulatfon of 202,000 people Greeks.
 As Greece is the allied country ly- ing nearest to Turkey. what is her att titude toward the Dardaneiies and constantfnopIe?" 2" the Minister was asked.
 Above all" he said, ..it is our de- sire to see the Dardanelles freed from its Turkish forts and it's hindrance to natural world-traffic, and to have it become . link in the worlds conn merce. the same as the Suez, or the Straits of Gibraltar, or the great American enterprise. the Panama Canal"
 Calls Americas Help Decisive
 Asked if he thought a peace confer ence was within reasonable sight. the Minister said he would not venture a prediction.
 4ifsBut there is one very definite thing settled as to that peace" he said and that is sSat the entrance of the United States, tnto the war alongside Of Great Britain. assures a victorious peace for the entente allies. If there war any doubt about 1t before, all doubt, end ed, in my Judgment. when those two colossal powers united for a common purpose.
 sT have not agreed therefore, when some have said that the entrance of the United States would be a final and material gain, but would not real ly affect the final outcome On the contrary, feel that the entry of the United States ranging it's tremendous moral and material forces along with England's Is the turning. point and de- .cfsiye factor of the war T+ l.