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San Francisco Call Bulletin
January 15, 1919. This article is reprinted below.
Greece's War Claims up to Peace Council
PARIS, Tuesday, Jan. 14.--(By the Associated Press)-- Greece has laid before the peace conference a memorandum signed by Premier Venizelos
setting forth the claims of Greece in the settlement of the war. The memorandum says the Hellenic nation consists of 8,256,000 persons, of
whom 55 per cent live in the kingdom of Greece and the remainder outside its limits.
Wishing to reunite the Greek population in the Balkans, Asia Minor and the islands adjacent to the kingdom, Greece asks first, Northern
Epirus, which contains 120,000 Greeks against 80,000 Albanians.
As a second demand Greece asks for Thrace, without Constantinople. Thrace, according to the memorandum, is peopled largely by Greeks.
CLAIM FOR VILAYETS
The third territorial claim made by Greece is for the vilayets in Asia Minor. These have a population, it is said, of 1,182,000 Greeks
against 1,042,000 Mohammedans and are claimed to be both "geographically and historically integral parts of Greece."
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