The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-15
CREEK CLAIMS
LAID before
Conference
BY PREMIER
Want to Reunite Greek Pop
ulation in Balkans, Asia
Minor and Adjacent IS
lands, Says Memorandum.
ASKS CoNSTANTINOPLE
fBy Associated Press,

PARIS, Jan 15.-Greece has laid
before the peace conference memo
randum signed by Premier Venizelos.
setting forth the situation of Greece
and her claims in the settlement OF
the war The memorandum says that
the Hellenic nation consists of 8,2ob,-
600 persons, of whom 55 per cent. live
in the kingdom of Greece and the re-
mainder outside its limits. Half mil
lion Greeks in America are included in
the figures submitted.
Wishing to re-unite the Greek pop
ulation in the Balkans, Asia-Minor
and the islands adjacent to the king,
dom, Greece asks. first Northern
Epirus, which contains many Greeks.
It says that ''the former, besides be-
ing in the majority, also possess
higher form of civilization"
AS second demand, Greece asks
for Thrace, without Constantinople.
Thrace, according to the memoran-
dunn, is peopled largely by Greeks.
International Guarantee.
Since Constantinople, according to
the twelfth point of President Will
sons program, cannot remain under
Turkish rule, the memorandum de-
clares, 1.-The natural solution would be
to award Constantinople to Greece,
and to establish international guaran-
tees of the freedom of the states.
1t is pointed out that the principle
native element of the population OF
Constantinople is Greek, being numer-
ically greater than "all the other ma
tionalities put together except the
Turks"
But if a society of nations be es-
tablished Immediately" the memoran-
dunn continues, "Constantinople might,
in consequence of great international
interests. connected with the posses
sion Of the straits. be formed as a
separate entity by the society OF ma
tions, which would nominate its gov
ernor for certain fixed periods
Part Of Asia Minor.
The third territorial claim. made by
Greece is for parts of Vilayets in Asia
Minor. These have population. 1t is
said, OF 1,1S8,000 Greeks against l..
042,00O other peoples and claimed to
be both geographically and histor-
ically integral parts of Greece
The Armenian provinces, with Rus
sian Armenia, the memorandum says,
should be erected into separate
state, organization of which should be
/ entrusted to one Of the great powers
by the society of nations. 1t is ad.
mitted that the Vilayets Of Trebisond
and Adana. although having respec-
lively, 100000 and 10000 Greek inhab
! itants, might be attached to the new
| Armenian state.
All islands in the Near East which
| are ethnographically, geographically
and economically Greek must return
to the Hellenic state. These should
include islands which. according to the
treaty made in London in April 1915
are to be annexed to Italy.
Discuss Bulgarian Claims.
All the figures given in the mem!
orandum are said to have been taker
from Turkish statistics. There is a
long discussion of Bulgarian claims
/ in which that nations attempts te
dominate the Balkanas with view te
realizing her dream to possess four
seas-the Black sea, the Sea of Mar
mora, the Aegean and the Adriatic-
| are detailed.
The memorandum ends by saying
ut must be thoroughly understood
that Bulgaria seeks to play in the Bal
kans the role that Prussia played up
on the European stage. Having beer
I the first among her neighbors to or
ganize strong army, she believes she
could easily enslave the nations nea1
her"
"Militarism is as deeply rooted ir
Bulgaria as in Prussia. The Bulgar
ians have every right to boast o
being the Prussians of the Balkans.
They resemble the Prussians in mill
strength and in their inhuman manne
of making war but are far from equal
ling the Prussians in the domain o
science letters and art "