Το Οχυρό Ρούπελ στο βιβλίο Constantine I and the Greek people,1920 CHAPTER XIV FORT RUPEL The by-elections in Chios, Lesbos, and eastern Macedonia early in May resulted, as had been expected, in a complete victory for the Venizelists : Elephtherios Venizelos himself was elected, without opposition, in Lesbos. Even in eastern Macedonia, part of which Venizelos, when prime minister, had tried to turn over to Bulgaria, Constantine Jordanou, a Venizelist, carried the country by a small majority. Throughout newer Greece, come under Greek rule only since the Turkish war of 1912, Venizelos's policy of further increasing the size of Greece by accretions in Asia Minor and Thrace appealed to the people. Many of them had relatives, property, or interests in Asia Minor and Thrace. They wished to see their friends and families freed of Turkish rule ; what might happen to Greece as a result of so large an increase in alien population—an an- nexation of territory extensively inhabited by S21...