Eight months after the signing of the Treaty, the Greek government sent a telegraph to the local government of the island:

"The Government is determined by any means to protect the inhabitants when they are supressed or persecuted by the Turks and to see that the terms of the 14th article of the Treaty are upheld."

Seventy three years after this telegraph was sent, and with all the events that followed it, has been proved that mother Greece not only has not honoured her signature and did not protect the people of the island, but on the contrary, abandoned them to their tragic fate.