The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-18
AMERICAN AID G3yST BE GIVEN
 10 kRMEN!ANS
Turkish Atrocities Will Re suit h Determination If
 Allowed to Continue,

There Hos before mo a urouD of ETis.y pEotorr1uhs. They arc cOrics of "jrOphiye of triumph" found iu thc pocket of a Turkish prisoner by An American Armenian volunteer The public will prohahI- never see those, we never publish painful pic lures Cf that kind" said the last daily editor 70 whom , ahaUed them. IL 3s uot business poEey Go show a Jat.e fGN Of scv,~ad Armenian heads. euarled by sr1,o5 men wearing inc fC-, and ~Na=.'y DHatoErauhs uf l4y- 'sE skeletons vnsca show Turkeys bccssly fe~gei.- sH Armenia. Tho par- lie E-aSe ravc what it wants and. st wants haa games and faN fashions and reports Of actors strikes. Ar -tcH3a ss very far away, Why should Svs ge called ,o dN more for her than sending ouv GoIcs to the relief arcr- Cfes and dorsu't Armenia have sis sharoc We know we cannot cope with sae worlds awful woe, If VIC give a0 vo can, why torture us with tales of horror aE tho tine2
 Iazeer, my friends. Tnvro Is some thing 10 dO now bessjdcs giving alrns Be1Eism Is frye, las people, wretchei fnducd, are not in daily terror of life and limb, norEauized and uncertain of their fate. Not so Armenia Since time began. among aH the Suffcrius, people on the planet ip any cline CT nation, never has there been such pra7ougcG agony as Armenia has cu- dUyod- Unlike Belgium. the armisjce hes mol brought hc~ peace, Just now, while tho League Of Nations is usenaccd by twenty =ena tors ready 10 knEfe it and more would emasCulate g.. while the question of all manda- tories is s.1u a7 open one. Turkish forces. all uncowc1, are stHl' daring so EV-CaE their vrH~eanCo on helpless Armenia The British troops, war weary. are ba1u- withdrawn after hay Fu- prolonged thoir stay at the ear 1aar request of the Peace Conference
 Great Britain has done all she can. With a daily national exneuditurp of aNour S11. 900 above her daily in come retreuchnoeu- or national bank ruptcy are her alternatives. Admiral Fisher has Just startled England with he de-n1-5 that the British navy shall be scrapped. part of 1T being out of date. and most of # unneces- sarv now that Gerno-y's fleet Is ruin cd Nothing SO refreshing as this de- u1and has been heard since the ar- r2istIcc, as ir prcs3Ees thaI Eenuina rrfverzsl Gi-a-manert, planned for in the Covru1ut but of which maukiud i has bern exccr 1ir-iy skepIfcaI- Now. in the interim of British withdrawal from ArncaIa and the Co1summaciOn of general disarmament. what can Aner-ca do@ We arc the sole nation which has The men, the money and inc 3nfluencs to deal with the tragic situation in which the tigerish pro cIivi1ies of Turk and Kurd are stiIl I1nCurbed-
 IT Is s-ated- that ''Washington has sEa mined tho situation and decided that f. would t,ke 15o.oOO men to re- esta bltsh order In Armenia and to prutsrr Tho inhabitants from Turkish YerspcuLLon-" Presumably this Is an estimate made some time ago and in view Of Turkeys present armament Certain q. is that we shall send no consc-dpls and most proba bly, That not one twentieth Of 15O.OO0 Ameri- can volunteers would ED 10 gua-d