Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-09
STRICKEN ARMENIA
SEES STAR OF HOPE
Dawn Of New Day Expected in
Land Oppressed by
Turk.
100000 KILLED SINCE 1915
Take Steps for Formation of In
dependent Statc-Expect
Little Trouble.
100000 KILLED SINCE 1911!
by ROBERT wELLEs nrrCnIE.

two decades OF massacre, deportation.
peotilence and famine and how to build
In the midst OF alien surroundings a
state which will have reasonable Sc
curity and guarantee an agc-old desire
OF its people for frccdom--this is the
problem OF Armenia, which will come
before the peace conference for set
Element. OF all the knotty questions
concerning The rehabilitation Of small
peoples - 'Sclf-detcrnination.'' our
President calls it-none offers more
difficulties. set none 50 cries for JUS
tee deserved than this very Armenian
issue.
Here in Paris there is "A headquarters
or Armenian national effort, which IL
obscure and difficult of access: it is
almost lost in the maze Of prona ganda
beinE spread by scores of races and
hationalitics struggling to emerge into
place in the sun" through the inter
ventlon or the peace conference and it's
word council But / found II. and
what learned there I pass on TO
america, for the tale Of Armcnia's
struggle for State of it's own should
appeal to American sense OF fair play
To begin with. remember that be-
Iore TINS war armenia was under the
suzeranity OF the Turk. and "a success
the same belief tina; the best way TO
solve the Armenian problem was TO
cause the extinction OF the Arlnenians;
me problem" for the Turks was sinn-
~ one or Christian people thrust into
the midst OF Mohammcia! territory and
die.
sOO.oUo ARnIsNIANs
SLAUGHTERED SINCE 1919
In 1885 the world was Mortified
oy the nrst massacrcs OF the Arme-
mans. In 1903 second carnival OF
killing drcnched the unhappy land with
blood. Again. in 1915, after TURKEY
had entered the war on the side or
the ccntra! powers. and when the iimsv
excuse offered that Armenlans might
threaten in the rear Turkish army
sent aga!ns, the Russians in the eau
casus, the Turks initiated the last and
most terrible OF their Wholesale KILL
ings.
The shocking totals OF men, women
and children pu, TO the sword or
urlven In ropea b3nds until they died
of exhaustion have all been set forth
in the Bryce report upon Turkish afro
cities in Armenia. In round numbers
s s Armsnisns have been "elimin-
another 100000 survived the marche.
into exile and are now awaiting on
poriunity to return to their native
In word. whole country has been
nearly swept clean OF us population.
Not even Serbia during. the great re-
more wholesale desolation OF it's
wealth and population. But tho Ar
ve thsu nre resisl 5sn race Twenty
joined the Russian army lighting in
sns Caucasus ;na; 5000 OF them BECAME
ienby In the conquest OF Palestine and
syria; 100000 suffered deportation but
are ready TO return. ana are returning
. already. to their ruined olive orchards
and VINEYARDS. There is sill! an Ar
mcnian people.
FORMED REPUBLIC Oh,
ARAFAT ONE YEAR AGO
The first step toward freedom MAS
taken at the time OF the Bolshk vik
revolution in Russia, when the Armfen-
The Black Sea formed the republic OF
Ararat;- This was a little over year
Of the, Turks, the republicans of the
north have signified their Willingness
Armenia. TO be born OF the wreckage
and tatters OF Turkish Armenia Nubar
pasha Is the genius of the Armenian
hope born OF The tremendous neces-
stiles OF the time, and ii is he who
heads the movement for ii rehabilitutcd
Armenian which may hope for ultimate
place among the free nations
Nubar l'asha is the son OF famous
father OF the same name who was
whose work OF regeneration there won
the praises both OF Lord Cromer and
TO head a delegation OF Armenians now tS
on their way TO Paris TO seek a hear
ing f Gpsi ins and if there
less he will I'LL that Office
But how. YOU ask. can people re-
half it's original number hope 10
stand on its own feet and protect "A
f count far too large to aceommodate
SEEK NO MORE THAN
ABLE no ACCOMPLISH
the ArmenlanS appreciate the grav-
ity OF the problem. and do not seek
able to accomplish. Their plan is to
ask that they be adopted temporarily
Great Britain or the 'Fq Gnised ne siass:
i ina this foslerinE big brother estab-
sist them TO fI 9s 1nem in and as
istratiye matters, give them small
military force 70 act as police and pre-
can be organized. and-abovc all else.
hnance them until they can get their
Ss Order Ths last tuI IS hhe IN pr @9Fk
necessity, for Armenia is absolutely i'm
poveriShcd
admitting their present incapacity
and asking assistance until they grow
stronger is admirable and in mark cd
contrast with the somewhat bump
tious assertivcncss Of many another
tiny state equally incapable to govern
itself. but insistent upon its right to
pathy of the conference and secure
assistance. Hut it is safe to say the
linitad States however sympathetic
is not likei'' TO assume responsibility
for government so far from home.
ANTICIPATE No SERIOUS
DIFFICULTY FOR NEW STATE
Tho advocates of "a united Armenia
do not anticipate any serious difficult
lies with their neighbors in fixing
boundaries of tho new state, for the
limits of the Armenian occupation are
fairly well set, New Armenia will in
clude the republic of Ararat, six
Turkish "vjlayets" or administrative
districts, and Cilcia, or Armenia
Minor.
or course this is all very vague TO
US. who do not know Asia Minor. But
to the map OF Asia Minor Countries
you can learn In minute the bounda-
in the family Of nations.
From point just below Batum, on
the east coast OF the Black Sea, draw
n line In round curve eastward
through Aiexandropol. Erivan and
Ararat. then turning south and west
through Van. Bitlts and Diarbekr to
Alexandretta on the Mediterranean
coast. Then from Mersina. farther
north on the Mediterranean. mark the
western boundary across the penin-
sula to near Samsun on the Black Sea-
srhiA nronosed dalimitation gives Ar