Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-25
STORIES OF THE WAR
Helped By Dispute Settlement.


 (By The Associated PresS.)-Colo- ael William Haskell, high commits sioner for the four great powers in Armenia. believes that one of tfle most difficult questions of the Near East has been solved by settlement of the dispute between Armenia, Azerbaidjan and Georgia as to which should con- trei tho karabagh district.
 (This district lies between the Black and Caspian seas. just north of the former border of Persia and Transcaucasia. Representatives of the three countries named have agreed to settle the dispute over this territory and to adjust all furth- CT disagreements by conference).
 Colonel Haskell told The Associated much greater field of work for the American Committee for relief in the Near East.
 ''fhis organization" he said" all ready is housing. feeding and cloth ing 1i,9e9 orphans in F orphanags 1 scattered throughout Russian Arne- nia besides caring for 2S,e00 sick children maintaining fourteen hospi- tals and feeding BOT, ,0G0 homeless re- ; fugoes or destitute persons. Before the recent conflict at Zange- l bour, the Americans fed ci 900 refug- l ees in the neighberhood of Shusha. l the capital of the disputed district 1 Even than they were unable to reach 5S.e00 more in the mountainous re- 1 zion known as Karabagh who were cut off by the political complications now settled
 Tt is hored to bring relief to more | than 0.e00 Armenians and Tartars alike in the contested territory who 1 face death this winter unless outside help is received.
 The United States is the only country endeavoring to help the pop i ulation of all Transcaucasia beside. whose desperate sitr& ten the con dition iTa devastated France and Bel gium is described as simply childs play. Fifty thousand Arrnenians wht were left in Turkey are arriving al 1 Erivan, kars and AlexandFepol by dri. | blets, clothed in bits of torn sackine pieced together with thorns. tlaeii i bodies frightfully emaciated. The stomachs of tiny children are gro. tesGuely swollen from living on roots and herbs, These children are fl
 only for treatment in hospitals whert only a leng course of most carefu
 feeding can remake into human be-
 ings.
 Around every station along the
 railway are gathered groups O O
 homeless people lying hHddled to-
 gether on the ground, the majority o
 them too weak even to try to hel, themselves. From time to time tn
 stronger ones clirnh on freight car and move elsewhere, always stekin,
 better conditions which do not exist Two Eundre3 and sixty-ihree thru : sand homeless refugees from Turiis Armenia thus are constantly miilirj about throughout Russian Armenia making the relief work conducted b the Americans, a problem requirin . infinite patience and organizing abil ity.
 This is especially true ni view Q the existence of 24s.8ao destitute in t1abitants of Russian Armenia wh l possess homes but. no food as well a . 15e,6e0 Greeks. Russians, Persian [ Syrians ard Ye2idis who have bee r driven out Of parts of Transeaucasia : "one hundred and forty thousan e Moslenls whose villages were destroy : ed in the course of five years of con !, stant warfare are helplessly encampe r in the open around villages g their former enemies, begging infiF
 itesimaE quantities of flour whic I they mix with dirt to give the flu ? sion of neurishment.
 ! Tines. '--'a7:-eds of thouAaBdr 0 7 suffering adults mostly homeless ar 2 lacking every necessity of life, hay ing nothing more to lose are con ' eehtrated in country as yet inadt : 1 euateiy poi,Ged or goN erRed. The 2 constitute a fertile field for ffae seec 2 Of Bolshevism or any form of anarch
 inc spread of which once leosed you
 be impossible. to predict.
 a This situation upquestionably
 the cause of the handitry, srerad