The sun., 1919-09-15
VENIZELOS HOPES
US. WILL ACT SOON
Saws Armenians Will Disap.
near if Mandate Issue Is
Not Decided.
TURKS STILL UNBEATEN
Premier Gives Arguments to
show Greece Should Have
Thrace.
Rn Ira Associated Pres.

pans. Sept. 14.-Enptherios Veni- |
,elos. Prime Minister of Greece to-day
ala he would be glad to see the United
c,.tss take the mandate for Armenia
.sThe Armenian question" said NJ. Veni-
,alos 'ds. of course, chiefly the concern
~ the Armenian people. 1t is for them
- cav TO whom should be given the
mandate to/administer the country. But
Greece would be glad to see the United
states take the mandate and assist
iris long suffering people toward regen-
Grafton.
"TTnless the status of Turkey Is soon
sealed and Armenia Is occupied by
mandatory State there VIII pc no AT
nenians left when the administrators
arrive"
NJ yenizelos, who though not MEM
her Of the Supreme Council, has>.heen
one of the more conspicuous figures in
ne peace negotiations. During his
olsven months of continuous absence
com Greece he has kept in particularly
ciose touch Will the situation in Asia
Minor In his opinion this problem re-
ouires a prompt and radical remedy.
"The Turks do not consider them
selves beaten" said NJ. venizelos. I'm
Asia Minor, as well as Armenia, they
take every opportunity to demonstrate
Il They continually arc nhrassing the
creek outposts Conditions in the ter
ritory occupied by the Greek troops are
satisfactory, but cannot say the same
for the parts of Asia Minor where there
are no allied troops.
Turks Causing Trouble.
"Great numbers of former Turkish
soldiers, organized into omitadJis Grow
ing bands) invade unoccupied territory
and fall upon the unarmed populations.
The primary thing for Asia Minor is
10 settle the question definitely and i'm
mediately. We have large force there,
capable Of establishing order and pro-
tectng the menaced Christian popula-
ZION were It not for the restrictions i'm
posed upon us"
Asked regarding Greece's attitude on
the question of Thrace, and with ref
erence to the argument advanced that
Constantinople as an international city
requires the largest possible hinterland
10 support 1t, the Greek statesman re-
called that he had renowned Greece's
claims to Constantinople in order to
facilitate durable settlement of the
Balkan question. = fsr
"But would 1t not be q crying injus-
tice,' he continued, 'if. in consequence
Of that remuneration, the Greeks. who
form a majority OF the population in
Thrace, should be asked to support that
international city? Constantinople really
needs no hinterland beyond the line of
rchatalja (about twenty-five miles
northwest Of Constantinople). It has
its port and its straits from which 1t
may derive substantial income. -
Turning to the question of Greece's
chronological and historical claims on
Thrace, NJ. venizelos said:
"A part of Thrace has been given to
the Bugarians, who curiously enough
made themselves witnesses to the justice
of the claims of the Greeks In a book
published by them in 1917 for propa-
ganda purposes. circulated by. Berlin for
the Bulgarian Government, there is a
series ofenaps showing the notifications
in the Balkans since the beginning of
history, They show that. excepting. for
short interval Of six years, Greece un-
interruptedly held the entire Egean
coast for nearly twenty centuries they
show that Bulgaria never had an outlet
to the Egean. and that the population
of Thrace was overwhelmingly Greek
until the Turks began TO settle 1t after
1878.
"In spite OF Turkish rule the Greeks
remained and to-day are the predomi-
mating nationality throughout the prov
ince. II this is not given to Greece II
will be fragrant violation of the prin-
ciple Of the self-determinaton Of -peo-
pies"
Say Thrace Is Grecian. ~
The Premier pointed out that the
clinical principle had been applied in
me case of the Jugo-Slavs, the Czeoho-
slovaks. the Poles and the Rumanians
m such way that less than per cent.
OF their nationals were left outside their
territorial boundaries.
Greece will be the only country" NJ
Ncnizelos declared, ''in which SO large 9
Proportion as 40 per cent, of nationals
VIII be lift under foreign rule IN cast
Ihrace If cenied US. Thrace not only be
ioi s. TO Greece officially and historically
out We have stronger economic claims
Gior it than has the hypothetical inter
fet.orai city Of Constantlnopls
Our country has a birth rate which
is exceeded by only one or two countrie,
N the world while the larger part of oui
Old territory is barren and unproductive
emigration was the only remedy befor,