E. Venizelos'un, İzmir'e (Smyrna) bir İngiliz subayı tayin edilmesine ilişkin olarak Lord Balfour'a gönderdiği mektup.

(Monsieur Balfour, 2.) of St. James, to inform the British Government that owing to the seriousness of the above statement, the Hellenic Government can no longer remain satisfied with the investigation report of her own officials, and begs His Majesty's Government to appoint a higher English Officer who in collaboration with a Greek Officer of the same rank, may proceed to a thorough and impartial investigation of the case. The Greek Government desires this step to be taken not only for the purpose of establishing whether Turkish prisoners have indeed been massacred by the Greek soldiers who were escorting them, but at the same time for the sake of ascertaining the attitude and testifying as to the conduct in general of the Greek Army in Asia Minor. The Hellenic Government hopes that such an investigation will confirm the impression which she has, concerning the incidents that have taken place in Smyrna during the first hours of the occupation, namely that the misdemeanours have not reached the degree of frightfulness attributed to them -- such as the massacring of surrendered prisoners. She believes that, however regrettable these incidents may be, they do not exceed in intensity the unavoidable brought about by the very circumstances under which they occurred and she further believes that the conduct of the Greek Army has been on the whole quite proper. But even in case this impression of the Greek Government be proved false, she would really prefer that the whole truth of the case come to light for the sake of establishing the responsibility of and exacting punishment from the authors, as she does not in the least desire that such despicable crimes be silenced or remain unpunished. Monsieur Gaalmanos, the Greek Minister at the Court of St. James, called at the Foreign Office yesterday, Tuesday, and left a note there embodying the above request. The permanent under-