Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-19
On Instructions From White
House General Harbord and
Forty Others With Him Has
Gone to Make Investigation.
AMERICAN TROOPS
WOULD Be FEGli7'
Administration A3tiae Il Har
mony With Wishes Of r2Hc5
and England, May Unaei-
take Unprecedented Task.
By LINCOLN Eyre.
BY Lincoln Eyre.
(Staff Correspondent of the Albuquer-
que Journal and New York World.l
Copyright, 1919, by the Press PUBLISH
inc ~
CThe New York World.)
Especial Cab'e Dispatch.)


Ports, Aug. 1S.-"The greatest pres
sure is now brought TO beae upon
the United States to take over the
mandatory for Armenia, and our
mission will be to inquire into the
situation there said Nal Gen. James
G. Harbord. who was General Per-
shing's chief OF staff, and who heads
an American mission to the Caucasus
which left here last week
I'VE expect to return to Paris early
in October and to bring with us a
final decision by President Wilson and
congress-" he said before leaving.
while our main object will be TO
study the Armenian situation, we hope
the presence there OF an American
mission will have the effect OF pre-
venting attacks upon the ArmenAns
by hostile elements"
With General Harbord went Brig.
Gen. T.. Mccoy, who was director or
the A. e. f. transportation service
following the armistice and who VIII
investigate the conditions of harbors,
roads and agriculture and also the
feasibility of raising an Armenian po-
Icing force. About forty others arc
with the mission 'rhe route is by sea,
from Brest on an American naval
cruiser to Constantinople, thence by
the Black sea to Batum.
President Wilson decided upon the
mission to Armenia before he left
Paris. Speaking of the possibilities.
General Harbord said that IL the
United States should take over the
mandatory, American troops must be
sent there. 1t will be the task OF the
mission to estimate the size of tho
force required.
General Harbord held q long talk
with Assistant Secretary of State
Frank Polk, who gave him the final
instructions that had been received
from President Wilson.
It is supposed the American policy
in Armenia will depend on the report
Of the mission, whose work Is thus
conaidered of great Importance.
France and England, with national
interests in the near east, also Will
| await with keen interest the report
| of the mission.
Since II became known that the
| mission would go to Armenia, GEN
| eral Harbord has received numerous
| offers from nations there, all desirous
( Of placing all the information they
| possess at the service of the investi-
! gators.
A staff of army and navy experts
! has been chosen to accompany Gem
| A~al Harbdrd. The party includes
| Brig. Gems. G.. Van Horn and Mosely.
| various officers of rank and civilians.
1t is hoped the mission will reach
| Armenia in time to prevent further
massacres of the people and to check
the war into which the Turks, Per-
sians Tartars and Georgians are
| drifting. Missionary and social serv-
ice workers in Constantinople, and
in Armenia, who were influential In
persuading the American government
to appoint and dispatch mission are
expected to be very useful In facili'
tating tho progress of the investiga'
| ton.