The daily Alaska citizen., 1920-01-16

. ' ttt'bI ans on OClODtI -4Nu lOlb briefly of the escape Of General | Harbord and his associates Of the
 United States mission to Armenia when they were attacked by bands i of Turkish normads in the desert and mountain regions of Armenian . Turkey. Walter S Hiatt of The Associated Press, was a member of the Harbord party. and has described the incident in the following graphic despatch just received by mail from Eriyan. capital of the Aremnian re public
 BRYAN, Capital Armenian Repub- he. LP) P)-The attack on and deten- ton overnight of the Harbord Mission to Armenia by bands of Kurds. Tar Jars and Turks is illustrative of the Iawless conditions existing turnout lhe Black Sea countries
 While f~aught with extreme danger tho members of the party were neith- ar robbed. stripped of their clothes ar. turned aGrift to n'ake the best of their way to some friendly city. or even killed as happens to othel e&-aYan.. because of the magic name .,l America.
 T. was the mind of Shamn Beg. ,'iettaln of the nOmad band entrench- cd against the Armenians at the vIl- lase of Kulp. which saved the lesser members Of the mission from the customary fate of captured caravans.
 Slaun Pegs came to the knowledge If thn mission members after this ia hion. For three weeks they had been travelling from Constantinople, intent "n really seeing the lands of Asia Minor as these lands have prob ably not yet been seen by outsiders. They hat come up from Aleppo by tain across the north strip of the -himme~ing Mesopotamian desert. until reaching Mardin, the magnifi- cirnt stone city set upon q mountain Thare the seven automobiles of the ;a-tE had been taken of the flat cars ol the Bagdad railway and after countless adventures with impossible roads bridging the unbridged Eu- pirates and the Tigris. climbing thrice their height to the plateaus 9i Ararat, the party crossed the Turk i7h frontier into Russian Asia Minor, Or Armenia as is now called parts of tAa country.
 4 few miles out of Kagizman, in the almost dry bed of the Araxes, General Harbord's car was stopped by humble patriarch offering melons carried by his son and the latters strangely beautiful little girl, dressed in a bundle of rags Then the mis- -ion'a forward machines met a wild i'd man on horseback who talked solubly possibly to disguise hls spy chaiacter.
 Following the lonely valley, while "Diny'" Poland, of the commission io~ Belgian relief discOursed on it's mineral richness, next the mission rolled around gigantic bend of the road to behold the river bottom covered with tents and cattle of some nollad tribe. Then Major H. ". Clark, of Boston, declared he heard shots from the mountain side to the right At the same time Gen. oral Harbord's car was seen to stop. and the truck in the rear began to lasten its speed
 The Harbord car had been stopped by & much alarmed rifieman dropping to his knees and starting to fire point blank. The rileman's gun was showed aside by gTeybeard chieftain when he saw the American flag born by the car Directly the whole bottom was swarming with a motley throng of tribesmen dressed in sheepskin tur- bans, ragged white shirts overmantled by short iakets of dark cloth, armed with long squirrel rifles and curiously carved knifes or short swords In the background stood their women, al in group.
 General HarbOrd left his machine and walked over to the chieftain an i'd man of scrawny beard who proud ly gave his name as Abdi Beg. When he learned the party was composed of Americans he told a story of hay ing been driven together with his band from their mountain homes by