The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05

have been put to death by tho Turks.
 This information was telegraphed to H. D. Cullen of the Near East relef committee of Birmingham, from head quarters of the organization in New York yesterday.
 J. O. Arror who is in Birmingham Tor a few days in connection with the Near East relief work, says he returned from Armenia recently and is not surprised at the news brought in the telegram me Turks, beside their religious hatred O. the Christian Armenians, also hold the Armenians to some extent responsible for the loss of the late war by the Aui NS and the Teutonic powers.
 Near Baku, on the Caspian sea, are some of Europe's biggest oil fields. Ihe ne Armenian troops keep this source or oii supply from falling into the hands or tne Turks and the output from reaching Ger many. Anything the Turks can oo to harm the Armenians they nave ~Uollo ~ since time immemorial, and now, says 2 MT. Arroll, if they can strike at Armenia through those who are helping the little and sorely tried country, 1t IS 10 oe CA | pected that they will do so
 The reports that have come rom Ar menia. written by Miss Eleanor Frank- lin Fagan and others, and published m 1 the Saturday Evening Post, Mir. Arroll saws. are as good as photographs or con ! ditions there.
 THREE WISE MEN
 ! Tn uTfah. he continued. the ancient c~api- ~ tai of the Caldees. the city from "hiS. | tbe three wise men set out to follow tht star of Bethlehem, he has seen the bodies | of seven or eight year old Armenian pirls who had been violated by the Turks ! ''There is scarce city in Armenia la nous as the birthplace or scene or WoIr l of the patriarchs in the Bible, Wner
 the Turks are not perpetrating atrociele' on the Armenians, the people wno HTS adopted Christianity. .na , "Tn Antioch I saw such horrors Una l don't care to even think of them.
 "rhe Armenian workers for relief in tn Near Fast have established small rae tories where the Armenians of the nelsn horhood can secure work and mahe living. Although the relief workers ar distributing food and supplies, the AT menian is a willing and intelligent NOT or CT and prefers to support himselt raLne
 than be dependent on charity. ret tneI ,
 are so many thousands of them' m
 noverished by famine and disease, una if will take a long time for them | recunerate sufficiently to go to work' l "Many people have the idea that tn 
 Armenian is a weak, simple creature tha lis being kicked about and making no CT
 fort to resent such treatment Ine lue @
 is far from correct There were lo'
 more courageous or tenacious troops
 the war. and while their supplies taste
 thev fought valiantly, but utterly wltn
 out supplies, they could not long ma, n,an an impression. The little nation numpe less than 4,oc0 600 people and surrounoe bv millions of Turks on all sides we
 enuipped and supplied troops, their caus was hopeless, from military standpoin from the start Yet they fought as tn Relgians fought, the Armenians agaln' Turkey. the Belgians against the Huns Armenia is rich in natural resource , with wonderful water power, great co ton and wool producing country, WI
 many other available industries All n, .ne need and want is peace, protection frol 1 the Turks and supplies for fresh star
 and they are willing and capable or wori ing out their own economic salvation