Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-12
GREEK RULE To
SUPPLANT TURK
If THE TURK Is CHASED OUT OF
EUROPE AFTER THE WAR THE
GREEKS WILL TAKE THEIR
PLACE.

ATHENS, Oct 11.-lf the Turk is
to leave Europe, as the Entente allies
have required in theiF war terms,
then there is a well-def1ned BELIEF in
the Balkans that two results will oc-
cur of high importance to Greece
and all Europe.
First, that the Greek inevitably will
succeed the Turk throughout Thrace
and in the whole region down to the
IDardanelles and Bosphorus.
Second, that new zone of terri
tory friendly to the Entente will thus
be stretched horizontally straight
across to Balkans as barrier to the
German dream of making the Balkans
German highroad to the Orient.
Professor Andreade of the Uniyer-
sity of Athens, one of the foremost
authorities on international affairs re-
ltaing to the Balkans, holds this view,
and in the course of talk today he
explaied how these two results would
naturally come about in the final
peace adjustment, by reason of the
principle of nationalities now accept
ed by the Entente allies as d basis
for territorial readjustment
Professor Andreads who is a special
list on the extent of Greek citizen
ship beyond the Greek frontiers-in
Macedonia and the other Balkans, in
Turkey, Syria and Asia Minor point
e,. out the great predominance of the
Greeks in regions to be evacuated by
the Turks if they are to leave Europe.
The whole vilayet, or province, Of
Adrianople, extending from the Bal
kans down to Constantinople, he de-
clared, is as much Greek as it is Turk
and with the Turks out it Tsp radically
all Gree. Even Constantinople.' he
said, lis Greek city-the largest Of
Greek cities-with a population Of $780,
goo Greeks" That gives an idea Of
the extent of Greek citizenship IN all
this section down to TIE Straits which
will have to Re considered, on the
basis OF nationality and race, when
the Turk leaves Euroro
"Tha. IS a sa added Prof.
Andreado, tia, if the Turk is to with
draw, the principle of nationality
which recognizes the racial condition
Of a community will lead to the recog-
milton of Greek paramount influence
in that section Thus far, the prin-
ciple of nationality has been ignored
and violated in all Balkan settlements,
and force has prevailed. Austria and
Bulgaria have not occupied any Of
the territory annexed in recent years
by reason that their race or nation
atty prevailed in these sections, but
solely by reason of their military force.
That has been the cause of the end
less wars in the Balkans, for people
are never satisfied when their race
I4s ignred and they are attached te a
foreign conqueror by fierce"
Professor Andreade, referring to the
Balkan map, chowed how the readjust-
ment of Balkan boundaries, based on
nationalities, would interpose two
barriers to Germans expansion, to-
ward Asia Minor and the Orient, one
the Greek zone across Thrace, and
the other the Serb-Rumanian link Is
only fifty miles across, but with Ru-
mania getting the Banat region to
which Professor Andreade says she Il
entitled by the principle of natinality
this Entente link will be 1859 miles
across.
And thus Entente Europe can ac-
oomplish what it chiefly seeks IN tbs
Balkans said Professor Andreade
friendly Entente zones intercepting
the natural rout of GeFmanic expan-
sion toward the Orient, and this car
be accomplished, not by force, but
by the principle of nationality nov
accepted by the Entente powers"