The principal demands which the Ambassadors made on the Greek
Government were : that apologies should be presented by the highest Greek military. authority to the Powers who were represented on the Boundary Commission—thus, it will be seen that the massacre of Italian officers is rightly classed as being an outrage against all the Powers and not against Italy alone ; that a funeral service should be held at Athens in the presence of the whole Greek Government ; that the Greek Fleet should salute the Italian, British and French flags— there is no mention here of the Greek ships themselves flying the Italian flag ; that the Greek Government should make an inquiry into the massacre as speedily as possible and inflict "exemplary punishment" on the culprits—. it will be seen that the original Italian demand for capital punishment in all cases of guilt is dropped ; that the inquiry into the outrage should be supervised by repre- sentatives of Great Britain, Italy and Japan—Signor Mussolini originally proposed that the Italian Military Attache was to exercise the supervision ; and that the Greek Government should lodge 1:500,000 as a guarantee of paying the indemnity, though the exact amount of the indemnity would be determined by the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague.
