“Yesterday at noon, the press service of the Revolution circulated the following message: “At 11:30 am. Today, in the Gudi region, in full battle order, the execution of those responsible for the destruction in Asia Minor, convicted by the Extraordinary Revolutionary Military Court, namely members of the Council of Five politicians P. Protopapadakis, D. Gunari, N. Stratou, K. Baltatsis and N. Theotokis and the main general of the defeat G. Khatsanestis. The execution was preceded by a military renunciation and communion in the Averof prison. The dead, immediately transferred to the First Cemetery, were handed over to relatives for burial. Before the execution, the convicts, interrogated about their last will, did not say anything.”

This news – in the form of an official communication – was published on the last page of the sheet “Kathimerini”, published on November 16, 1922. It was surrounded by white columns, which, apparently due to censorship, remained empty, leaving only news, without comments and reports. The court’s decision is published in detail on the previous page of the newspaper.

That day the dominant theme in the newspaper was the ongoing negotiations within the framework of the Lausanne Conference, which began on 7 November. The report on the front page, as well as the telegrams on the last page, dealt with issues (geopolitical, military, economic, territorial, etc.) at the center of discussions both between Greece and Turkey and between Turkey and the Allies. We read, among other things, that “Ismet Pasha agreed to present today the Turkish point of view on the problems of the current management of the Ottoman debt and the transfer of part of the debt to the states that annexed the territories that belonged to the Ottoman Empire.” And also that “he returned to the issue of the borders of Thrace, as he insisted on the need to organize a referendum in Thrace and the occupation of Karagats by Turkey”, trying to support his views with data on the population. However, “Mr. Venizelos easily rebutted Ismet Pasha’s otherwise weak arguments.”