Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-06-08
MIS[RIEs Of STRUGGLING ARMENIA
ARE RELATEDBY AMERICAN WRITER

sr,cis' GOO rte Vsss
WASHINGTON. june i-Of time
~ interest because Of President vii
sons proposal that the United States
assume mandate over Armenia.
though written pfior TO that pro-
posal, ls q communication 10 the
National Geographic society from
Melville Chatter
Relating his personal experiences
In that lumiu,-,lrictou baud several
mouths ago. Mr. Chulcr writes:
Eryan. ne capital Of Armcnil's
provisional republic. is an inconceiv-
able contrast 10 ihr Georgian rOyDr n-
ment seat M Tnis Al Eriyan one
finds no spacious prospect nor vice
regal palac" no smart shops. Rus
sian opera, nor gny might life 10 he
hold misery Ion TIfl.s. one must search
u out. In Er.yan one cannot escape
q.
This poor, struggling dlngy city
of the plains. whose government Of
ficos suggest some hastily ,Xiompor-
lied election headquarters and whose
parliament chamber is rrr'i up with
benches and Chco-prlOth iu the audi
forum OF the sccord-class theUter.
hoasts OF hut one beauty end th1t
to speak IN paradox 's forty miles
away; for. IN whatever quarter Of
Iriyan YOU may be-, lifi your glance
and great Arprdt of eternal SHOWS
Is seen hroodiur diet1nty over the
mean streets with nj. aspect Ot ma-
jestic calm. Tie is the Armenian
Olympus. or rather Say. the Sinai
of race which has known bondage
and wildoruos wandering. ana FOR
centuries q peoples iwJr.Uul.un has
I turned toward him.
"Tho little Ehyau republic which
cCntpl about ArJrI' contains within
rs present limits lees than 1900
square miles only on" half oi which
area Is capable of high productivity
two hundred miles %, railroad. and
about two million people 70 has
been the Ccu'c rof refuge f1r Tur-
k'sh Atomni1us ever since 90" ma
sacrc nj 1915. and between 900 600
and 3oo.o00 of them are cawpn'
within iis horlors
AS for The city itself its 'DUor
population 81 10000 hrs boon %.
blcd hy This influx. There asa'i1n
and typhus have claimed tloir ,oI. u'
5000. the death ui" fluctu1lgr n..
| tween fifty and eighty DIS.
Though the doctor and : we've
here "a observe the worst phases of
tho situation. each ~ MS waited foi
the other 10 suggest q trim 10 the
lpdir region. whore we were told
starvation was most acute.
"Thc town Of lpdir with its local
land nearby populations 90 $4,000
/ Arm'niaus. 2O,0OU Tartars. and 49,
0OU lczidis. revealed some squalid
streets with but few people seated
disc0nsolatcly hero ard there. as we
! drove In Throughout those toriu-
Gus sur-hc1iun hywuys no children
played ana mo- animals r0amod The
! lair was heavy with dreadful silence
such as hangs over plague gmittcE
communities
"Wo found the children, such as
,hoy were iuhJhi'iur un urphanarc
/ wherein one sirheul ut pulridityk
/ horrible oJor and were informed
/ thai ,horc were neither medicines
nor disinfpctanis Whcrcwith 10 all9y
| the condition Of the many little
| sick beds.
sick? SAY rather. the hod-rid-
den a word which moro Justly de-
| scribos those Tiny, Withored up,
crCn,-like creatures. upon whose
faces the skin seemed stretched to q
! drumhcad's t,ghlucss; whose pecr.
ing eyes shot terror and anguish, as
! ir deaths presence were already per
. Ccptiblc To them, and who lay thcr,