Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-07
ARMFNTANe MUST RE
 DELIVERED FOR ALL
 TIME FROM TURKEY

ol IAe ASSW'lateu PreSS. D--ln tne opinion of Visccunt James Bryce former ambassador to tte United Sta tas, it is extremely desirable that every effort should be made to send in a sufficient Allied force to occupy what was Turkish Armenia and re- establish some sort of order there"
 This view is expressed in a com munication to the Manchester Guar dian. coupled with a regret that the conditions of the Turkish armietice failed to provide for the immediats occupation by the Allies of the six Armenian villayets and also of Cili- cia (modern province of Adana the Mediterranean.) Lord Bryce says however:
 II cannot think that this omission was due to any doubt as to the neces- sitv. and indeed the solemn duty, of delivering all the Armenian districts utterly and forever from any vestige of Turkish rule" The British gov ernmont. he continues. has pledged itself "so frequently and clearly to this deliverance. and, as We under stand, tcth President Wilson and the French government have expressed themselves so strongly in favor of such q policy, that we cannot doubt ! the honest purpose of the govern ment."
 "It need hardly be said," the statement goes on, ''that to leave the Eastern Christians of Armenia and Syria under Turkish rule would ex- cite the warmest indignation all over the country. and if possible still warmer indignation in the United States, where the interest in Armen- ia has been extremely great and has been evinced hy the enormous contributions which have been made to the relief of the Armenian refu- gees.'
 Gan anybody in this country be found who thinks that after the three hideous masacres which the Turks have perpetrated in America since 1895, eliminating in the worst massa- ere of all in 1915. when SO00O Christ ians perished. it would be possible, for any Christian power, or indeed any power of human feeling. to leave the Turk free to begin expressions afresh or to fail to show by turning the Turk out of the country the anger and hor- TOT which his cruelties haxe excited? I need hardly add thot the presence of Turkish rule in these regions with their great strategical importance. would be material to Germany, if ever she saw her chance in realizing her schemes for pushing her influence ro wards Persia and Central Asia.
 "One fails to see any reason why the Turks. being absolutely at the mercy of the Allies. and having com mited with the tacit approval of Ger many the hugest single crime that has been committed in the whole course of the war. should not have been com pelled to an absolutely uncondition- al surrender. Why should any favor able conditions have been granted to them who have shown that. whether under Abdul Hamid or under ruffians like Enver and Talaat. they are ca paible of the most revolting crimes?"
 Lord Bryce points out that the de- mobilization of the Turkish army will let loose large number of armed men accustomed to acts of violence who will scatter over the country and for whom the Turkish government will not attempt to provide.
 Another thing to consider. he says is that Allied forces. if on the spot. could rescue many of the Christian women seized by the Turks and car ried ot to he sold into s.svery or to be- come inmates of Tnrkish;h ;harems They mioht rescue too. he thinks. members of the boys that were selzed, given to derishes and. carried off to be proueht up as ,Mussuimans. <
 Furthermore. one should remember he says. the great numbers ot refu- gees that fled across the Russian frontier from the Northern Armenian provinces and who have not ventured to return owing to the fear of encoun- tering rowing bands of demobilized Turkish soldiers. Only the nresence of Allied troops would induce them to re- . turn to their homes.
 For all these reasons" he sums un cit seems urgent in the interests of humanity that these territories should be reduced to some sort of order at the earliest possible moment. It is useless to expec: any of these things will he done by the Turkish govern ment."