The New York herald., 1921-10-17
GREEK CABINET WINS
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
Premier Explains Military Sit
uation and Large Gains in
Asia Minor Territory.
ENTENTE UNION Is URGED
VIII Go to Capitals to Show
More Fully Need of Strug-
gle Against Turkey.
ENTENTE UNION IS URGED
By the Associated Press.

ATHENS, Oct. 16.-The Gounaris Gov
ernment received a vote of confidence
from the National Assembly yesterday
In spite of the threats of the opposition,
which the Venizelists refused to sup
port.
Premier Gounaris said that Greece
occupied in Asia Minor more than six
times as much territory as was allotted
by the Sevres treaty. 1t had been de-
cided that he and Foreign Minister Bal
tazzis should go to Rome, Paris and
London for the purpose of explaining the
views of Greece to those governments
and hear their opinions.
While the vote was being taken Col.
Drossopoulos. retired, struck M. Theo-
tolSis, the Minister of War, with a cane.
The Minister was not hurt very badly,
and yDrossopoulos was elected from the
House.
In describing the vote of confidence
the official news agency says that of
312 members of the Assembly 2ls voted
without reserve for the Cabinet, the
opposition party under Stratos. num-
bering nineteen, voted for the Govern
ment with reserve, while the support
ers of ex-Premier Venizelos. to the
number of seventy-one. Withdrew.
The Premier made a long statement
in which he explained the conditions
under which an advance on Angora had
been decided upon, a step which was
considered necessary. He said that on
account of the strategic disadvantages
attending the offensive. together with
the unfavorable season of the year and
the difficulties of communication. it
was decided to abandon the advance
on the nationalist capital and return
to the starting point.
"rhe military situation thus created"
continued the Premier, forms the base
of the Greek political action in Asia
Minor. To-day We occupy in Asia Minor
territory covering about 100000 square
kilometers, as compared with 5000 Kil-
ometers under the Treaty of Sovres.
This country is inhabited by 100000
persons. as against 100000 inha 5itants
of the territory described by tho Treaty
of Sevres. We have in our power nearly
all the railway communications of Tur-
key in Asia Minor. with all the keys to
these lines without exception.
"On the basis of this situation we
should build our foreign policy, and we
shall proceed with the most complete
organization possible of the occupied ter
ritory. Through this organization we
shall obtain for our occupation greater
security, which will permit us to rut
down our military forces and tighten the
economic burden of occupation.
''But the most important aspect of the
Asia Minor question Is the international
side. The situation prevailing through
out Turkey Is absolutely abnormal from
an international viewpoint. The state
Of war between Turkey and the Entente
Powers. of which Greece Is one, has
never ended as regards any of the -el-
ligerents. The armistice which was
signed after Turkey and her allies were
crushed has not been executed in any of
it's conditions pertaining to the Turks
All of these conditions remain dead
'etters to this day. and the Turks con-
tinue hostilities against those who have
an armistice with them.
at is plain that it Is the real Turkey,
whether with a legitimate Government
at Constantinople or with the de facto
Government of Angora, which does not
submit to the terms of the armistice.
And 1t is she who has committed acts
of hostility against those with whom
the Turkish armistice was signed. Even
a treaty of peace-the Treaty of Sevres
was signed since July. 1920. 1t is
superfuous to say that the conditions
Of treaty which Is not even yet rati-
fled are no more respected by the real
Turkey than the terms Of the armistice.
The abnormal situation resulting from
this state of things for all Turkey is
avident
"This conflict between us and the
Turks in Asia Minor constitutes one of
these incidents, which in their manifold
complexity complicate the entire situa-