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being in v, m the guarantee if thov wi 



nive protecting powers requeMcd tin- 

 Government to specifr the revenues that it oonld 

 net apart fur the service of the new loan ami what 

 kind of supervision it was prepared to accept over 



German? steadfastly refused her assent t.> the 

 proposal of a guarantee of ih.- indemnity loan by 

 t h .- t r t he six signatory pow. 



n.uml that the rights of ihr |.n..r creditors 

 would IH- prejudice! tria an*l Russia sup- 



i the objection. The Greek Government was 

 willing to oonosde the stamp Unyielding IIJOOQUOOO 

 drachmai annually, the collection to be sup. ; 



pcwMtaftives of ih.- "hos,. appoint- 



should be confirmed by the ih 



oomponsalci th f'-r the withdrawal 



.f UM -tamp tnx fnm thrir 

 ernroctit pn|HM- 1 t<> tin- German ministers) 

 cut tobacco to the monopolies nli 

 assigned to them. ami. should further security M 

 required, the surplus of the stamp tax or the duty 

 on exported currant*. An association composed of 



representatives of the landholders and two 

 Greek representatives should be created to super- 

 vise the collection of the assigned revenues. Ger- 



. however, insisted on a thorough investiga- 



f the Greek finances and the SStaVUshmenl of 

 a general control. An Knglish guarantee and linan- 

 was proposed in Greece, the export duty 

 on currants, which was fixed ly the Chamlier at 15 

 percent, in kind, and the export dues of the Ionian 

 Island- U-ing sufficient security. Count MuravjefT, 

 the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, having in 

 a note implied that the responsibility for the in- 

 .l.'ible evils suffered by Greece and Turkey 

 through the delay in the conclusion of p 

 ii|wm Kngland. L<-rd Salisbury. on Sept. 5, sent anew 

 proposition, namely, the constitution of an intcrna- 



; commission of six members, one for each f 

 the (towers, under whose control Greece should 

 place -ufficient for the service of the in- 



demnity and the old loans, to be accompanied |,\- 

 .I'-uatioii of Thessiily. '1 he Greek 

 Government acceded to this measure of interna- 

 tional control. This solution of the diihYulty was 

 accepted in principle by all the powers. The fol- 

 lowing revenues were offered by Greece as guaran- 

 tee for payment of the indemnity: Currant duties 

 4,098,000 "drachmai : spec-id dnUM levied in the 

 Ionia .".i.OOO drachmai: the duty <>n 



figs, 50,000 drachmai: stamp arid post-card duties 

 1.570,000 drachm ii : customs duties from I he I.au- 

 rium mines, 1,392,000 drachmai; total, 10.240,000 

 drachmai. G.-rm.-iny. holding that the Turkish oc- 

 cupation of Thessaly was the only security that 

 Greece would fulfill her financial obligations, was 

 not willing to relinquish this security without ar- 

 riving at a settlement w f the partly repudiated 

 debts. The German ambass . _ -ted that 



th- interest to be paid to the original bondholders 

 should be d.-N-rmm-d. The ,,ther i '.not 



ready to assent t.. Lord Salisbury's proposal that 



-aquation should take place within a month 

 of the signature of the preliminar; . and 



thought that the dates for the payment ..f the in- 

 Mail meats should be fixed in ih- preliminaries. The 

 British ambassador proposed that the evacuation 

 should follow within a month after the Boule should 

 vote the assignment of the revenues necessary for 

 the . -in old debt as well a* the indemnity 



loan. This did not rem,,vi- the* objections of Oer- 

 many. It was finally derided that the evacuation 

 of Thessalv should begin a month after the indem- 

 nity loan had been nrgotiatf-fl. The difference bc- 



i Kngland and Germany having been arr 

 the chief obstacle disappeared, and on Sept 1 



preliminary article* ..f p,-ace were signed Ity the 



1 1 he Turkish pleiiipotcn: 



The tii>t art iele provided for t he reel ilical i>n of t he 

 fnmt ; ling to a line drawn on a map. \\hich 



should le fi\ed on t he spot I \ a del i III \\ at loll ec .|||- 



iiin fifteen da\-. ..ii-i-tin- of 

 delegates of Greece and Turkey and m 



gates of tin- mediatin.u' powers, ami \\a- sult'jed to 

 slight modification-, fn.n. -,t ..f view 



in favor of Turkey. NN'hereas the former line fol- 

 lowed I he water parting, the lie\V hue follow-. 

 rule, the southern Ims, ,,f the mountain-, and : 

 {r* \ Turkey the Maluna and all the other impor- 

 tant pusses. "A little West of Lail a the line l( 



the mountains and crosses th. .\ingiioth 



lianks to Turke\ fi-iii Gounitza to K..ut/"i-h.-ron. 

 frontier inc-lude>the \illa^eof K 



Iliani. whence the insurgents employed ly the Kth- 

 nikc lletairia made (lie raid into Macedonia that 

 precipitated the war. Turkey laid claim t<> the 'ul- 

 lage and l.v .ud' this point was left to 



ielimitation commission to decide. All the 

 heights round Xarko*. (Joimit/a. l\out/o-heroii, 

 Kritiri. Maluna. and N. -(Ionian and th"-.- m-a: 

 sani pa*x over t<> Tui 



The second article of the treaty provided ll 

 International Commission of C.-nti 

 six nieml" nting the ine<liating |" 



shall lie empowered to make the lieres-ni 



ments to secure the rapid payment ,f t he indemnity 

 and to prevent any injury l-eing d-'ii.- to the : 

 of former creditors. Tin ' .eminent prom- 



ised to submit to the Boule a law. to I.e pivviou-ly 

 approved l>y the powers, defining the rights of the 

 coiMinission, according to which the collect ion ainl 

 employment of revenues sufficient for the service 

 of the' new and old loans will I.e sui.jecled : 

 absolute control of the commission. 



The third article provided that, without tamper- 

 ing with the privileges and immuniti* 



by Hellenic subjects before the War oil tl.e 



footing as subjects of otl. -peeial an 



ments be concluded between Turkey and Greece 

 with a view to guarding against the abu-e of con- 

 sular immunities to prevent the hindering of the 

 regular course of justice, assure the execution of 

 sentences pronounced, and safeguard the in: 

 of ottoman and foreign subj'-cts in difference- \\-\\\\ 

 Hellenic subjects, including cases of bankru) ' 



Article IV provided for the meet ing of (Jn-.-k 

 and Ottoman plenipotentiari- rantinople 



within fifteen days to draw up and SJ U MI a definitive 

 treaty of peace, to be concluded on the }<:\-\- of the 

 stipulations of the preliminary treaty, and to con- 

 tain besides clauses for exchange of pri-opersof war, 

 f r. emigration of the inhabitants of the : 

 territories, and compensation to j.n n for 



losses caused by the Greek forces. aN., re-estalilish- 

 ment of po-tal and telegraphic relation*. 



The fifth article provided for the negotiation of 

 the following arrangements: A convention settling 

 the questions of contested nationalities on tic 

 of the plan negotiated in !*?(; between Turk' 



Mtion in ;, with 



the third article, an extradition convention for the 

 reciprocal surrender of common-law ofTender- 



: vent ion for the repression of 

 the common frontier. 



Article VI provided that the state of war 

 should cease from the date of the signature of the 

 preliminary treaty, and that the evacuation of 

 Thessaly should take place within a month from 

 the date when the powers should have recognized 

 that the provisions of the second article had lien 

 fulfilled, and when the time for the issue of flic indem- 

 nity loan had been fixed by the Internal ional Corn- 

 mission. Article X reaffirmed the stipulations of 



