Missoula from Penwell block, September 5, 1922.
Turkey stated a demand for East Thrace, which had been ceded to Greece in 1920.
East Thrace.
This meant that Turkey was declaring that it wanted to reclaim recently lost territory, lost to Greece, across the Bosporus. This would of course give it completely control of the straits, and hence entry into the Black Sea.
Greeks had comprised about 38% of the population there before the Greco Turkish War, and Bulgarians about 4.3%. Bulgarians had been subject to a pre-war set of expulsions and violence due to the Balkan Wars that foreshadowed World War One which, at the same time, increased the Muslim population as Muslims fled into the area for refuge due to Ottoman lands being lost elsewhere. Greeks would now be subject to the coming population exchange between Turkey and Greece, which also impacted the remaining Bulgarians. In 1934 the Jewish population was expelled in the Thrace Pogroms.
Today, 15% of the Turkish population lives in the region.
Dealing with speed of a different type, motorcycle racer Billy Denham was photographed at a motorcycle race.
Denham is wearing elements of the wool U.S. Army uniform of the period, to at least the extent that he's wearing a wool service shirt. Note also that he's wearing a tie, something you wouldn't see a motorcycle racer wear now, and for good reason.
