The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-10
ARMENIA SEES
HOPE Dawn IN
new FREEDOM
Rebuilding Shattered Race IS
No Small Task.
~ Robert Wclles Richie,
ll'g Universal SCTyirrD


Paris JAM 25 -CBy Mail)-How
tlI.''s lhc remnants OF people that
IT,. survived two decades Of maSSa.
crr. deportation pc,iilcncc aud famine
and ipw to build IN the midst OF alien
surroundings a state which will have
fsl .blc security and guarantee an
apr old desire OF II, people iof tree
DOM 'h, is the problcm ol Armenia,
which viii come before the peace con
ference iur settlement Oi al the
lroHy question, concerning the rchl-
lli'aiion ui small people, sell de.
termination our president calls it
rIuc offer, moro difficulties, yet none
,i Dric, for l.slicr deserved than this
very Armchair issue.
Here m rari, there '' a headguaf.
'er oi Armenian national effort,
uurh is obscure and difficult ul &C
cess. II /, almost lost IN the maze ot
propaganda being spread by scores OF
't,c, and nll'ouIllllc, struggling 10
merge into place ~ the sun
trough the intervention Of the peace
-pnicrcnrc and Us world council Bot,
found i. ard what learned there
pass On 10 America. for lhr tale OF
Nnmcnia's appeal TO Americas sense
Of fair play
TO begin with. remember ,ha, he
fore this war Armenia was under the
siieraln,y of the Turk, aud success.
SION ot Turkish administrators shared
the same belief that the be-" way TO
solve the Armenian problem was 10
cause the extinction oi the Nrmenlans (.
ihe problem" for the Turks va,
simply one Of . Christian people
thrust into the md ui Mohammcdan
,rrfiturf and cutting Asa Minor
through the middle
Massacre After Massacre.
ln 1850 the world WAS horrlicd
i, the first maSSaCrcS AZ the Nrmc
man, In lprD second carnival oi
killing drcnched the unhappy land
with blood Again. IN 1918, after
Turkey rad entered the war on the
side ot the central powers, and VIXEN
the flimSv excuse offered that Armt
mans might threaten in the rear a
Turkish army Scut against the Rus
Sdr, in the Caucasus, the Turks mi
tIdtcd the last and most terrible OF
their wholesale killings.
The shocking totals OF men. women
and children put 10 the sword or
driven IN roped bands until they died
Of exhaustion have all been Sc, forth
IN the Bryce rcpoI upon Turkish
atrocities IN Armenia In round mum
hers. SoD1 ArmcnlanS have been
eliminated ly tho Turks since 1915
and another 10000 turyiyed the
marchc, into exile and arc now await.
ing opportunity 10 return to their ma
live land.
I'm a world. a whole country has been
nearly swept clean OF It's population
No, even Serbia during the grea, re.
treat OF the winter OF 1918 suffered
more wholesale dc,olation OF its
wealth aud population. But the Ar.
mculans are resistant race. Iwcn-
iy-iiyc thousand OF them escaped and
Joined the Russian army fighting IN
the Caucasus 5000 Of them became
soldiers under the British General Al
lrnby IN their conquest Of Palestine
and Syria. UO0OoD suffered dcporta-
ton but are ready 10 return and are
returning already to their ruined olive
orchards and vineyards. There is still
an Armenian people.
The First Step.
The frs, step toward freedom was
taken at the time OF the bolSheyist
revolution IN Russia, when the Ar
mcnians living in Russian territory
along the Black Sea formed the re-
public OF Ararat. This was a little
over a year ago Now, with the com