Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-12-10
BOLSHEvISTS MEDlATERS
IN "FORMAI ARMISTICE''

New York, Dec. "a formal armis-
tice' between the Turkish nationalists
and Armenia has been signed, presum-
ably at the intervention of the Russian
bolsheyiki, although what the Russians
gain by it is not yet known, according to
cable advices received, by the Near East
relief here from Senain, frontier customs
and railway station between the re-
publcs of Georgia and Armenia
A Sanain dispatch dated December A,
said that under the armistice terms a
neutral zone about 68 miles long had
been provided for between Anian and
Alaguez, the second highest mountain in
Armenia. and 81 miles northwest of
Erivan, the Armenian capital
Other boundaries were unknown In
Sanain, it was stated. A commission of
three Turks and three Armenians to
control the neutral area were to have
arrived on December 6, it was stated.
According to the message, the terms
and six soldiers in Karakliss, are to
withdraw IL miles from the zone. Refu-
gees are permitted to return into the
area, but it is unknown whether any
guarantee of their safety has been pro-
vided.
The Armenians under the armistice
were to deliver to the Turks 1000 rifles,
60 machine guns, two locomotives and
$50 cars.
The report had been confirmed, it was
added, that the Turks are massacreing
the inhabitants of two villages near
Hamamloo, in alleged reprisal of the
killing of two Turkish soldiers by
civilians.
Americans Are Helpless
This latest development in the Ar
menian situation, in which President
Wilson has agreed to act as mediator
menia's helplessness under pressure
from the north and south by the Russian
bolsheviki and the Turkish nationalists
under kemal Pasha. officials of the
Near East relief declare.
Colonel William N. Haskell. for more
than year after the European war the
joint high commissioner in Armenia for
the four great powers and DIR. James
Z. Barton, head of the Near East re-
lief, who went into Armenia after the
war as chairman of the commission in
vestigating the Near East, explained the
situation which the presi-
dent must consider.
Squeezed from both sides, Armenia
has been forced to negotiate with both
bolsheviki and Turks as matters Of ex-
pediency, they said As recently as six
months ago, high Armenian officials
discussed with Colonel Haskell the ad-
visibility of setting up soviet form of
government, which they did not want,
merely to appease the Russian press
ing upon Armenia from the north.
NuIls Wilson Concessions.
They have been compelled to deal with
the Turks likewise to prevent annihila--
ton from the south, and the Turks and
Russians have been negotiating with
each other for an alliance against "out-
side interference"
Armenia has government In form,
a president, prime minister,
a ministry and an army of some 1850
men, all unable to function, and has
been waiting for allied assistance. The
Abarounian, is at Geneva,
Switzerland, urging his country's cause
before the League of Nations.
The prime minister, H. G. Chanjanian,
and his ministry are at Erivan, con-
strained in action and virtually con-
trolled by the bolshevih and the Turks.
Without an armed force in Armenia any
concession President Wilson may allow
to Armenia or to the territory Kemal
Pasha holds, would result In nothing, 1t
was predicted.