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Constantinople. Greece receives Turk- 

 ish Thrace, which lies to the southwest 

 of Constantinople. 



Scarcely less drastic has been the dis- 

 memberment of the Ottoman Empire in 

 Asia, where provision is made for one 

 autonomous and four independent states, 

 in addition to complete renunciation of 

 all Turkish interests in Egypt and con- 

 sent to a British mandatory over Pales- 

 tine. 



The independent states are Syria (tem- 

 porarily under French mandate), Meso- 

 potamia (temporarily under British man- 

 date), Armenia, whose boundaries Presi- 

 dent Wilson has been asked to define, and 

 the Arab Kingdom of the Hedjaz, over 

 which presides the Grand Sherif of 

 Mecca. 



The autonomous State of Kurdistan is 

 to comprise the Kurdish area east of the 

 Euphrates and, south of the to-be-deter- 

 mined southern frontier of Armenia. The 

 territorial adjustments in Asia Minor will 

 be more comprehensively shown in The 

 Geographies Map of Asia, 28 x 36 

 inches, to be issued with the May num- 

 ber. 



The Allied Supreme Council has pro- 

 vided access to the sea for Armenia, 

 Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Bulgaria by a 

 group of internationalized ports, chief 

 among which are Dedeagatch, Batum, 

 and Trebizond. 



In addition to the hitherto Turkish 

 islands of the iEgean, which pass under 

 the sovereignty of Greece, the latter 

 country also assumes the administration 

 of a large area in Asia Minor surround- 

 ing the important seaport of Smyrna. 

 This region is to have the privilege of a 

 plebiscite at the end of five years. 



One of the unusual settlements grow- 

 ing out of the Treaty of Sevres is the 

 disposition of the ''Dodecanese" (Spo- 

 rades), twelve islands which Italy occu- 

 pied during the Turco-Italian War of 

 1912. Both racially and by historic tra- 

 ditions, the inhabitants of this archipel- 

 ago lying off the southwest coast of Asia 

 Minor are preponderantly Greek. How- 

 ever, owing to the earlier conflict over 

 their possession, it was arranged that 

 Turkey should cede them to Italy, who in 

 turn, on the same day and at the same 

 place, ceded all of the group except 



Rhodes to Greece. This double cession 

 recalls a feature of the Treaty of Prague 

 in 1866, when Austria, at the close of the 

 Austro-Prussian War, ceded Lombardo- 

 Yenetia to France, who in turn immedi- 

 ately ceded the territory to Italy. 



Rhodes, according to a Greek-Italian 

 agreement, is to remain under Italian ad- 

 ministration for fifteen years, at the end 

 of which time a plebiscite is to be held; 

 but if, in the meantime, Great Britain de- 

 cides to relinquish Cyprus in favor of 

 Greece, Rhodes likewise is to be surren- 

 dered. 



Turkey has renounced all rights to 

 Egypt as from November 5, 1914, and 

 recognizes the British protectorate over 

 that country. While the treaty formally 

 recognizes the annexation of Cyprus by 

 Great Britain, this, the third largest 

 island of the Mediterranean, has been ad- 

 ministered by the British for more than 

 forty years ; so that, for practical pur- 

 poses, its status has been little affected as 

 a result of the World War. 



While Great Britain at present main- 

 tains a protectorate over Egypt, the Brit- 

 ish Government is considering the Milner 

 Mission's proposal for recognition of 

 Egyptian independence and a treaty of 

 alliance under which Great Britain will 

 undertake to guarantee the existence of 

 Egypt against outside aggression. A 

 British garrison will be maintained in the 

 Suez Canal Zone. 



FINLAND PROFITS BY RUSSIANS BREAK-UP 



The Republic of Finland has been born 

 of the war with less travail than any 

 other of the new nations of Europe. 

 After being united to the Russian Empire 

 as an autonomous grand-duchy for more 

 than a century, its House of Representa- 

 tives proclaimed the state's independence 

 in December, 19 17, and it became a re- 

 public according to the constitutional law 

 of June 14, 1 9 19. It has been recognized 

 by most of the world powers. 



In square miles of territory, Finland 

 equals Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hun- 

 gary, and Bulgaria combined. Measured 

 by the "yardstick'' of American State 

 areas, it approximates the New England 

 and North Atlantic group, including Xew 

 Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, 

 Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, 



