E. Venizelos'un Yunanistan'ın İngiltere'ye olan savaş borcuna ilişkin muhtırası.

-16- due by her, it follows that we too ought to be charged a similar percentage for the repayment of our debt - Thus the British Treasury which loses nothing for the unpaid share of the credits and interest i.e., an amount of £5,640,000 x £1,200,000 = £6,640,000 would really receive from Greece 66.73% and sacrifice only 33.27% on the whole amount which if had undertaken to credit Greece, if of course interest is not counted from now onwards, as is the case with Italy. Expenditure for the water supplies of the Capital and the reclaiming of marshy land in Macedonia. I also deem it necessary to reply to the remarks made by Sir Otto Hinsmeyer in the course of our conversations at the Treasury regarding, besides other expenditure of the Greek Treasury, expenditure caused by the water supplies of Athens, the reclaiming of marshes in Macedonia and the extension of our railway lines. No one can question the urgent nature of these expenses. Already before the war the water of the aqueduct of the capital was absolutely insufficient, and in September 1914 an international competition was being carried out for the construction of a new aqueduct. Owing to the war the construction of this aqueduct did not materialize. But as a consequence of the war and of the influx of refugees the population of Athens and the Piraeus which before the war amounted to 300,000 inhabitants rose to 600,000 and the question of the water supply for this population became a truly tragic one. Under these circumstances one cannot understand how we could be criticised for providing for the water supply of the capital or for reclaiming the marshes in Macedonia with- out which the 600,000 of refugees population established there