give up her claim to the reparation due to her for the devastations caused in Asia Minor.

Being conscious of their just claim, the Turkish delegation are convinced that the delegations of the Allied Powers will recognise the perfect legitimacy of the request which they have the honour to formulate and take the liberty to describe, as follows, particulars of the Greek devastations, which have been summed up in the four annexed tables of statistics.

Table No. I contains the names of the towns destroyed either totally or in great part, as well as the number and value of the buildings destroyed in each. It includes, apart from Smyrna, the names of twenty-six towns, nearly all of which were entirely destroyed.

Table No. II contains a list of real property destroyed in each of the occupied sanjaks and the total value of this destroyed property. This table includes the real property destroyed in the country as well as that destroyed in such towns as, having suffered comparatively unimportant damage, are not included in Table No. I.

Religious and educational buildings such as mosques, colleges, mausoleums, schools, as well as factories and workshops destroyed in each town and sanjak, have not been quoted under a special heading in Tables I and II in order that these should not be overburdened. Their number amounts in all to 3,593 mosques, colleges and schools, and to 710 workshops, factories, flour-mills, &c.

From the point of view of loss of works of art, the town of Brusa deserves special mention. It is in fact most difficult to estimate the total value of the works of art thus destroyed; damages of that nature do not therefore figure in Table I; that is why there must be added to the figures respecting the town of Brusa the sum of 20,426,000 fr. at least, that is to say, about £T. 3,000,000 which is the total value as estimated by the French engineer Raymond Ainé for damages inflicted on the works of art at Brusa in the first period of the Greek occupation only.

Table No. III gives losses, per sanjak, of movable property, merchandise, specie, jewels, agricultural implements, machinery, &c., and Table IV the number and the value of cattle killed or removed, to be for the most part transported to Greece either during the occupation or at the time of the final rout.

To give an idea of the extent of the harm caused by the Greeks to Anatolia, it will suffice for us to mention that in a vast district where agriculture and the breeding of cattle form the only resources of the population, this population now lacks beasts of burden. It is likewise impossible to-day to find a single hen in the devastated regions.

To the numbers figuring in these tables, the total value of the destruction carried out by the Greek fleet on the coasts of Anatolia must be added, and also the total damage caused to the Turkish mercantile marine, that is to say, a total of 258,007 plus 600,000, i.e., £T. 858,007, as well as thefts and requisitions carried

out at the expense of the Ottoman Red Crescent, which amount to £T. 26,465. To sum up, the reparations which we claim from Greece amount to:

TABLE I TO ANNEX (G).

Giving the name of the towns destroyed as well as the number and value of destroyed buildings of all kinds, such as houses, shops and stores, hotels, warehouses, religious and scholastic edifices, factories, workshops, mills, &c.

*The value of the buildings destroyed at Kara-Mursel, Eski-Shehr and Panderma is comparatively high because these towns contain buildings of great value as well as factories and mills. In Eski-Shehr the richest quarters of the town were destroyed.

Unlike the twenty-six other towns, Smyrna was burnt after the entry of the Turkish troops. This was due to the fact that the town was taken by us, so to speak, unexpectedly, since the Greeks thought that they still had before them sufficient time to carry out the destruction which they had planned. Nevertheless, the organisation prepared with this object entered into action the day after the Turkish occupation and succeeded in destroying the richest part of the town.

TABLE II TO ANNEX (G).

Showing the number and value of buildings, both urban and rural, such as religious and scholastic edifices, factories, farms, dwellinghouses, &c., destroyed in each sanjak, with the exception of the buildings appearing in Table I.

Showing for each sanjak the value of the movable property, merchandise, agricultural implements, machines, cereals, &c., removed or destroyed, whether in the towns or in the country districts.

Total

Motor cars

and Lorries.

TABLE IV TO ANNEX (G).

Showing the Quantities and Value of Means of Transport Destroyed or Carried Off and of the Animals Removed or Killed.

40,744 13,962 24,105 32,971 5,464 192,739 156,031 3,669 20,441,206
24,502 13,710 12,997 20,254 1,988
86,187 4,758 11,073,703

44,034

259 134,040 63,926 264,980 228,230 8,504 821,339 1,770,316 24,278 112,032,425 |

* No draught animals remain in the devastated regions.

ANNEX (H) To No. 38.

Comments of the Greek Delegation on the Memorandum of the Turkish Delegation respecting Greek Devastations in Asia Minor.

M. le Président,

Lausanne, January 25, 1923.

I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith a memorandum containing the observations of the Greek delegation on the memorandum of the Turkish delegation, dated the 20th January, respecting the indemnities claimed by Turkey from Greece in respect of war damages.

I beg you to accept, M. le Président, the assurance of my highest consideration.

His Excellency M. Bompard,

French Ambassador,

E. K. VENISELOS.

President of the Third Commission at the

Conference of Lausanne.

Enclosure.

Observations on the Memorandum of the Turkish Delegation dated January 20, 1923, relating to War Damages.

ON the 20th January the Turkish delegation addressed a letter to the President of the Third Commission of the Conference, together with a memorandum, in which they explained the various reasons for which Turkey believes that she has the right to demand indemnities, and fixes at £T. 1,341,639,505 the total of her claims.

Francs.