Dimitris Katheniotis'in Pontus meselesi ve Kafkasya'daki askerî durum, Rum topluluklarının nüfusu ve bileşimi ile bağımsız bir Rum-Müslüman devletinin kurulması hakkındaki notası.

This state could be constituted quite independently of the claims formulated by the Pontus Greeks. On the one hand it would be the logical continuation of the frontiers of Armenia and Cilicia, while on the other hand it would also be based on the ethnological characteristics of the districts affected. It would be easy so to draw its frontiers as to comprise within them a population of 200,000 Greeks and 400,000 moslems. Of the latter, 150,000 are Greeks forcibly converted to Islam 180 years ago and retaining their Greek speech (the so-called Oflis) and 30,000 are "Stavriots" outward Moslems who profess the Christian religion in secret. These figures represent the population at present on the spot. It does not comprise the 400,000 refugees in Russia already referred to who would return in large numbers immediately this Greco-Moslem State is constituted. If the Greek Government were invited to undertake the military organization of this State, it would be possible for it to send there a military nucleus which, along with the organisation of the Pontus Greeks already in existence, would be at the disposal of the British Military authorities in the Black Sea for any operations which the situation in the Caucasus might make necessary. It may be pointed out that the existence of such a State would make it much easier for a democratic Government like that of Greece, to obtain the assent of its Parliament to the dispatch of troops to a front so remote as the Caucasus. The State contemplated would have an army of only one or two divisions, but it could competently expect assistance from Greece in the event of a Bolsheviki inroad into Caucasus. Were Great Britain to accept the mandate for the State, or, at any rate, consent to assist it with military material -2-