The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-04

London, Dec. S-(CorreSpondence l of the Associated Press)-In the opinion of Viscount James Bryce, for '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-estab- fish some sort of order there"
 This view Is expressed in a com munication to the Manchester Guar dian, coupled with 8 regret that the conditions of the Turkish armistice failed to provide for the immediate occupation by the Allies of the six Armenian vilayets and also of Gill; cia (modern province of Adana on the Mediterranean),. Lord Bryce says, however:
 "I cannot think that this omission was due to any doubt as to the neces- sity, and indeed the solemn duty, of delivering all the Armenian districts utterly and forever from any vestige of Turkish rule" The British gov ernment, he continues, has pledged itself, "so frequently and clearly to this deliverance, and, as we under stand, both President Wilson and the French government, have expressed themselves so strongly in favor of such a policy, that we cannot doubt the honest purpose of the govern ment."
 'It need hardly be said" the state ment goes on, that to leave tha Eastern Christians of Armenia and Syria under Turkish rule would ex- NHNr, ,lI nTy1 the country, and If possible, still warmer indignation in the United States, where the interest in Arme- mia has been extremely great and has been evinced by the enormous con- tributions which have been made to the relief of the Armenian refugees
 Three Massacres.
 Gan anybody In this country be found who thinks that after the three hideous massacres which the Turks have perpetrated in Armenia since 1895, eliminating in the worst massa- ere of all in 1915, when 800, ,0OO Chris tians perished, 1t would be possible for any Christian power, or indeed any power of human feeling, to leave the Turk free to begin oppression efresh, or to fall to show by turning the Turk out of the country the an ger and horror which his cruelties have excited? l need hardly add that the presence of Turkish rule in these regions, with their great strate- gical importance, would be material to Germany, if ever she saw her chance, in realizing her schemes for pushing her influence toward Persia and Central Asia
 ,"One fails to see any reason why the Turks, being absolutely at the mercy of the Allies, and having com mitted, with the tacit approval of Germany, the hugest single crime that has been committed in the whole course of the war, should not have been compelled to an absolutely un- conditional surrender. Why should any favorable conditions have been granted to them who have shown that, whether under Abdul Hamid or under rufflians like Enyer and Ia laat, they are capable of the most re- volting crimes ",
 Lord Bryce points out that the Rehabilitation of the Turkish army will let loose a large number of arm ed men accustomed to acts of Vio- lence who will scatter over the coun> try and for whom the Turkish gov ernment will not attempt to pro, vide.
 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 off to be sold into slavery or tt become inmates of Turkish harems They might rescue too, he thinks numbers of the boys that were seiz ed, given to dervishes and carried off to be brought up as Mussul mans.
 Turkish Government Indifferent
 Furthermore, one should remem Der, he says, the great numbers refugees that fled across the Russian frontier from the Northern Armenian provinces, and who have not ventur ed to return owing to the fear 0 encountering rowing bands of demob ilized Turkish soldiers Only h presence of Allied troops would in duce them to return to their homes
 For all these reasons" he sum s up, "it seems urgent in the interest \ of humanity that these territorie should be reduced to some sort of or der at the earliest possible momen It is useless to expect any of thes things will be done by the Turkis government"
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