The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-10

ARMENIA SIGNS PACT,
LOSES TERRITORY
Keeps Erivan Region and Lake
GOkcha, Gives Up Kars and
Alexandropol.
SOVIET is ESTABLISHED
Complete Accord Exists With
Reds, Azerbaijan> and Turk
Nationalist.
SOVIET is ESTABLISHED

CoNsTANTINoPLE. Dec. "a peace
treaty between Armenia and the Turkish
Nationalists is reported to have been
signed in Alexandropol during the night
Of December 2. Under the treaty Ar
menia's territory viii be reduced to only
the region Of Erivan, the capital, and
Lake Gokcha. excluding -5ors and Alex
andropol.
The treaty provideS that all Arnenia's
ornaments must be delivered to the
Turks. with the exception OF /, 500 rifles,
twenty-six quickhrers and three can
mons. which the Armenians are permitted
to keep.
A Soviet administration has been or
ganized in Erivan, according to the re-
ports, and complete accord exists be-
tween Soviet Russia, AzerbaJan, Ar
mcnia and the Turkish Nationalist.
A formal armIstlce" between the
Turkish Nationalist and Armenia has
been signed, presumably at the interven-
ton of the Russian Bolshevilki, all
though what the Russians gain by II is
not yet known, according to cable advices
received by the Near East Relief here
to-day from Sanain, frontier customs
lies of Georgia and Armenia.
Terms OF the Armfstice.
BY the terms of the armistice. the
Sanabin despatch, dated December 4,
said a neutral zone, about sixty-eight
miles long, had been provided for be-
tween Sanain at AlagueZ, the second
highest mountain in Armenia and thirty
! four miles northwest of Erivan, the
Armenian capital. The territory in the
neutral zone includes the important Ar
menian city OF Alexandropol. and Kara
kiss. Delijan, Hamanloo, Bash-AbaraD,
Akhta, Khoroum, Bandaral and score
OF other towns.
This latest development In the Arme-
MAN situation. In which President Will
son has agreed to act as mediator for
the League of Nations. shows Armenia's
helplessness under pressure from the
north and south by the Russian Bolshe-
wiki and the Turkish Nationalists under
Renal Pasha. officials OF the Near East
Relief declared last night.
Col. 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 L. Barton. head Of the Near East
Relief, who went into Armenia after the
vestigating the Near East, explained the
complicated situation which the Presi-
dent must consider.
Armenia Forced to Make Peace.
Squeezed from both sides, Armenia
has been forced to negotiate with both
Bolsheviki and Turks as matters of ex-
pediency. and not free choice, they said.
AS recently as six months ago high Ar
menian officials discussed with Col. Has
kell the advisability of setting up a So
Wet form OF government. which they did
not want merely to appease the Rus
SLAMS pressing upon Armenia from the
north.
They have been compelled to deal with
the Turks likewise to prevent annihiia-
ton from the south, and the Turks Ind
Russians have been negotiating with
each other for an alliance against "out-
side interference"
The Russ ans have taken Azerbaijan
and the Baku country, where they have
gained control of the oil district They
have not waged war against the Re-
public OF Georgia, because Georgia Is
the one inlet FOR Russia's dealings with
the rest OF the world. and abe needs
Georgia as "middleman." Col. Has
kell sad. Between lies Armenia, q sort
OF buffer State" and football" for
Russians and Turks.
The limit OF the territory President
Wilson may as mediator concede to Ar
menia for the League of Nations has
been set as the four provinces of Trebi-
zond. Erzerum, Bitlis and Van. In all
about the size of Illinois, Col Haskell
said
Renal Pasha now holds these prov
inces with his troops. He recognizes no
authority OF the League of Nations or
OF the peace treaty. and has declared
for Turkey for the Turks" without
reservation. Col. Haskell and DR.. Barton
pointed out. Armenia will not be in a.
position to govern herself without loan
Of about s20.000.o00. and will be unable
to readjust herself politically without
an armed force sufficient to protect her
from the Russian Bolshevih and the
Turkish Nationalist. who apparently
have come TO an agreement with each
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