Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-18
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ARMENIA DISPUTE
SOLVES BIG ISSUE
Agreement on Karabagh Con.
troll Opens Up Vast Field
for Relief Work.

TIFLIS. Transcaucasia. December
Correspondence of the Associated
Fress).--Col William Haskell, high
commissioner for the our great pow
ers in Armenia. believes that one of
the most di! cult questions Of the
rear east has been solved by settle-
ment of the dispute bet -een Armenia,
zerNaidjan and Georgia as to which
should contro' the Karabagh district
(This district lies hetv cen the Black
ana CASPIAN seas. lust north of the
former border of Persia and Trans
three countries named have agreed
to settle the dispute over this terri
tory and to adjust all further dis
agreements by conference).
Co. Haskell told the Associated
Press that this settlement opens up
American Committee for Relief in the
ear Fast
This organization" he said, AL
eady is housing. feeding and cloth
'"g 1000 or"hans in fortv-two or
"hanaCcs A'c"ttered throughout Rus
2 o0n sick child en-. ma mt, lining four
teen hospitals and feeding 307 900
o. less refugees or destitute per.
sons
Thousands Facing Desth.
'Fefore the recent conai-t at Za7ge-
Nour. the Americans fed $1,000 ref
nsees in the neighbour God of Shusha,
the caDital of the disputed district.
ven then they were unable to reach
$4,000 more in the mountain Gus re-
gion known as Karabagh. who we're
cut off nv the political complications
now settled.
ut is no. hoped to bring relief to
ore than 100 600 Arnenia"s and
Tartars alike in the contested terri
DRY. who face death this winter un-
'ess outside help is received.
The United States is the only coun-
try endeavoring to help the popula-
ton Of all Transcaucasia. besides
whose desperate situation the condi-
ton in devastated France and Bel
r'um is described as simply child's
play.
Many FriEhtfully Emaciated.
Fifty thousand Armenians who
were left in Turkey are arriving at
Erivan, Kars and Alexandropol by
friblets clothed in bits Of torn sack
tng pieced together with thorns, their
bodies frightfully emaciated. The
tesquely swollen from living on roots
and herbs. These children are fit only
for treatment in hospitals. where only
long course of most careful feeding
can remake them into human beings.
around every station along the
dreds of homeless people lying hud-
died together on the ground the ma
jority of them too weak even to try
to help themselves. From time to time
the stronger ones climb on freight
cars and move elsewhere. always
seeking better conditions which do
not exist.
Wandering About Aimlessly.
1.-TWO hundred and sixty-three thou
-, los
Armenia thus are constantly milling
about throughout Russian Armenia
making the relief work conducted by
the Americans, a problem requiring
infinite patience and organizing abil-
ity
the existence Of 24S.000 destitute in
habitants of Russian Armenia, who
possess homes. but no food, as well az
150.0 600 Greeks, Russians, Persians
Syrians and Yezidis. who have been
driven out Of parts of Transcaucasia
"One hundred and forty thousand
Moslems. whose villages were de-
stroyed in the course of five years
of constant warfare are helplessly en-
camped in the open around villages
or their former enemies, begging in
f1nitesimal quantities of flour. which
they mix with dirt. to give the illu-
sion of nourishment.
Fertile Field for Bolshevists.
These hundreds Of thousands of
suffering adults. mostly homeless
md lacking every necessity of
ife having nothing more to lose,
are concentrated in a country as yet
inadequately policed or governed.
They constitute a fertile field for the
seeds of bolshevism or any form of
anarchy. the spread of which. once
'oosed. would be impossible to pre-
dict.
the cause Of the banditry. sporadic
revolutions. local conflicts and gen.
eral political unrest throughout the
Caucasus of which ambitious and un-