New Britain herald., 1919-01-15
Nenizelos Docyt
Cd to Rome
Should Become
NatiOll--Land in AS

Paris, Jan. 14.-Greec98 D.
fore the peace conferences Hl L.
andum signed by Premier yess
setting forth the situation of " r8X j
and her claims in the settlement on
the war. The memorandum says the
Hellenic nation consists of S,256,00
persons, Of whom 55 per cent. live
IN the kingdom of Greece and the re-
maindcr outside it's limits Half a
million Greeks in America are in
cIuded in the figures submitted
Wishing to reunite the Greek pop
ulatlon in the Balkans, Asia Minor
and the islands adjacent to the king
dom, Greece asks, first northern
Epirus, which contains 10000
Greeks against 10000 Nbanians. 1t
says that "the former, besides being
in the ma jority. also possesses a high
er form of civihzation.'
AS ~ second demand. Greece asks
for Thrace. without Constantinople.
Thraco. according to the memoran-
dun. is people largely by Greeks.
"Since Constantine according to
the twelfth point of President Will
sons program cannot remain under
Turkish rule, the memorandum de-
clares, the natural solution would be
to award COnstantinOple to Greece
and to establish international guar
antees for the freedom of the straits
1t is pointed out that the principal
native element of the population of
Constantinople is Greek, being nu-
merically greater than "all the other
nationalities put together except the
Turks
But if a society of nations be es-
tablshed Immediately the memoir
andum continues, "ConstantinopIe
might, in consequence of great inter
NATIONAL interests connected with the
possession of the straits. be formed
as a separate entity by the society of
nations. which would nominate its
governor for certain-fixed periods
Territory in Asia Minor.
The third territorial claim made by
Greece is for parts of vilayets in Asia
Minor. These have a population, it
Is said, Of 1,18S,000 Greeks against
1.042,0 600 Mohanimedans and are
claimed to he both geographically
and historically integral parts of
Greece"
The Armenian provinces, with Rus
sian Armenia, the memorandum says,
should be erected into a separate
state, organization Of which should
be entrusted to the great powers by
the society of nations. IT is admitted
that the vilaYets of Trenizond and
Adana, although having, respectively
100000 and 10000 Greek inhabitants,
might be attached to the new Armen-
ian state.
Conflict With Italian Treaty.
All islands in the Near East that are
ethnograp phically, geographically and
economically Greek must return to the
Hellenic state. These should include
islands, according to the treaty made
in London in April, 1915, which are
to be annexed to Italy
All the figures given in the memor-
andum are said to have been taken
from Turkish statistics. There is a
long discussion of Bulgarian claims,
in which that nations attempts to
dominate the Balkans with a view to
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:
'Miltarism is as deeply rooted in
Bulgaria as in Prussia. The Bulgar-
ians have every right to boast of be-
ing the Prussians of the Balkans.
They resemble the Prussian in mill
tarism, in their worship of brute |
strength and in their inhuman man
ner of making war, but are far from
euualling the Prussians in the domain |
of science, letters and art"
REDS HAD DRAWN