The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-01-01
TURK RULE
 ID CEASE
By Associated Press

basSador to the United States, "it is extremely desireablc that every effort should be made to send in sufficient allies forces to occupy what was Turk -ish Armenia and re-eStabliSh some sort of order there"
 This view is expressed in com munication to the Manchester Guar dian, coupled with regret that the conditions of the Turkish armistic@ failed to provide for the immediate occupation by the allies Of the six Armenian vilayets and also of Cicilcia Cmodem province of Adana, on the Mediterranean. Lord Bryce says however:
 .I can not think that this omission was due to any doubt as to the necc$' sitv. and, indeed. the solemn duty, Of delivering all the Armenian districts utterly and forever from any vestlgc of Turkish ulc." The British gov. crpment he continued, has pledged itself "so frequently and clearly ta this delivcrcncc, and, as we under stand. both President Wilson and tn French government have expressed themselves so strongly in favor ot such a policy, that we can not doubt the hone purpose of the govern ment."
 Ut need hardly be said,' the state. ment goes on, "that to leave the East crn Christians of Armenia and Syria under Turkish rule would excite tho warmeSt indignation all over the coun- try. and if possible still warmer indiE- nation in the United States, where the interest in Armenia has been evinccd by the enormous contributions which have been made to the relief of the American refugees.
 Can anybody in this country 5c found who thinks, after the three hid eous massacreS which the Turks have perpetuatel in Armenia since 1895 culminatin~ in the worst massacre O all in 1915. when SOOOOO Christian perished tat it would be possible fo any Christian power or indeed. aEI power of human feeling, to leave ts" Turk free to begin expressions afrcSh or to fail to show by turning the TwI out of the coutry the anger and hor TOT which his cIucltics have excited. I need hardly add that the presence of Turkish rule in these regions, wit their great stratcgical importance would be material to Germany, if eve' she saw her chance, in realizing h"' schemes for pushing her influence tc wards Persia and Central Asia.
 "One fails to see any reason why the Turks, being absolutely at th' mercy of the allies, and having com nitted, with the tacit approval of Ge" many. the hugcSt single crime th&i laS been committed in the who'I curse of the war, should not hay been compelled to an absolutely un- conditional surrender. Why should lnv favorable conditions have beer shown that. whether under Abdu Hamid or under ruffians like EnveI and Talaat, they are capable of the most revolting crimeS?"
 Lord Bryce points out that the de' mobilization of the Turkish army will let loose large number of armed meH accustomed to violence, who will seat. ter over the country and for whom the Turkish government will not at tempt to provide.
 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 to become inmates of Turkish harems. They might rescue, too, he thinks, the number of boys that were seized given to the derviSheS and carried off to be brought up as Mussulmans.
 Furthermore, one should remember he says, the great number of refu~ gees that fled across the Russian from tier from the northern Armenian pro. vinces, and who have not ventured to return owing to the fear of demobilz- ed Turkish soldiers. Only the presence of allied troops would induce them tc return to their homes.
 "For all these reasons" he sums up, "it seems urgent in the interests of humanity that these territories should be reduced to some sort of O.. der at the earlist possible momen:. If is useless to expect any af theSC