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Thursday 18 August 2016

British naval authorities organising transport Greek refugees from East Thrace according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 19 October 1922

An item dated London, England 19th reported that British naval authorities supported by Americans supervised the transport of thousands Greeks refugees from Thrace. There were not enough Greek ships available and the British cabinet spent already more as 20.000 pound sterling to charter other ships.

Note
1. At that moment was the Turkish War of Independence between 19 May 1919-11 October 1922 although there was an armistice still unfinished. Not earlier as on 24 July 1923 was with the Treaty of Lausanne peace. Their opponents of the Ottoman Sultanate were Armenia, Greece, England, Italy and France. The locations of the acts were was Anatolia, North Mesopotamia and Thrace.