The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-23
CAUCASUS FULL OF DANGER FOR
 ALLIED NATIONS

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 for the Entente Allies, according to
 E. A. Narrow, chairman of the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief, who arrived in Pekin from Tiflis recently.
 From Batoum to the British front in Southern Persia, the only force oopposed to any German-Turkish advance, he said, is comparatively small number of Armenians with limited supplies of food and ammu- milton cut off from all communica- tion with the Allies On the other hand, all the Tartars are loyal to Turkey and Germany. The northern portion of Persia, he declared, is pro-German and these elements are ready to take a hand in the war if enjoyment and leaders can be fur nished them. There is a possibility of this German sympathy extending to Turkestan and Afganistan.
 In the Caucasus and Northern Persia, MT. Yarrow says, the Ger mans could mobilize at least a mil lion men and while they are not especially good fighters, they could greatly embarras the English in Southern Persia and Mesopotamia Two ways are open to combat this menace, namely, strong pressure in Persia and Mesopotamia, and the re- mote possibility of striking the enemy through Siberia.
 "The Germans have the Caucasus and Southern Russia" Yarrow con- tlnued. "and are pressing on with all sorts of enterprises and making conquests which require little or no military force. AS they go on they are picking up their war prisoners compatriots and under one guise or another getting them armed so as to cooperate when the times comes. The Mohammedan races in that region are getting the idea that the German arms are invincible. There is ceaseless activity of German agents among them, pressing this view upon them ,and if events follow logically as they have begun, it seems almost certain that the Allies will have most difficult situation to deal with"
 MT. 4arrow described conditions obtaining at time of his departure about the middle of March, as fol lows: All communication to Persia had been cut by the local Tartars. The railroad south of Erivan haI not been in operation for several months. Officers of the Turkish army were working in this section training the Tartars.
 The railroad from Tiflis to Bakv was entirely in the hands of the Tartars and they permitted only an occasional train to pass and that subject to the most rigid search at stations enroute. From the train following that on which the Narrow party came out, nine non-combatant were taken at Elizabet- opol, and although Narrow remained in Baku ten days, they had not been released.
 On the Turkish front to the west there was considerable activity. After the fall of Trebizond, Erze- rum and Kars the only way out from Baku was over the Georgian Pass from Tiflis to Vladikavkaz by auto mobile and this was becoming un- certain because of the approach of Germans from Rostov. The Americ-1 consul, Smith, remained in Tiflis and expected to hold on as long i IS possible.
 The Pioneer Packing company, To- | ,ated at Cordova, has the largest | capacity of any clam cannery in the i world, according to statement made by G. P. Halferty, president If the company, and secretary-treas- 'rer of the Sea Beach Canning com 'any. He states that last wear 'O,OOO cases were put up by the noa1 nlonf xr,h;,L