The Washington herald., 1921-04-24
WOMEN OF NATIONAL. .CAPTTAL GREET VISITORS

What else can we do9 Naturally
the Turks care little what happens
TO these Armenian orphans (over
10000 OF them9, and as for the
general population. they have In
stalled and encouraged these ig-
norant little Bolo leaders with the
single purpose Of creating chaos in
what remains Of Armenia after they
withdraw, And after the Turks
have combed this country, as they
certainly are doing, of every kind OF
supplies, therein be nothing but
desert waste and starvation, and
their ambition to exterminate the
Armenians will be accomplished hot
by massacre this time. but by some
thing more subtle and awful.
send Away Convoy.
. Several days after the general
exodus OF Armenisns from, Alexan-
dropol II became necessary TO send
"a convoy Of our horses and mules
over the road to Kars In order to
save them from the Bolsheviixs.
was delegated with another
American to conduct the party. 1t
left under Turkish escort to ths
border lines, but not without serl-
Gus difficulties. Just as they were
starting out 1t was discovered that
someone had taken four shoes from
the various horses feet. with the
idea Of making the trip Impossible.
The aniinals were immed lately re-
shod. but the trip was postponed a
day. The next morning they were
again ready to leave. but the driv-
ers Of the mule teams did not show
up at all. and two more shoes were
missing from different horses. New
drivers were secured and the horses
reshod and the party was of at
noon. 1t had gone only few yards
when the wheels began TO come of
the vehicles. due to pegs which had
deftly been removed from the axles.
New ones were improvised and the
journey continued until finally. aft
er three days of bitter cold wealth
er on the road they arrived at Ksrs
pretty saddle sore. The first night
was spent In a Turkish camp, and
the second in a Mohlican village.
The Mohlicans are Russian peasants
whose religion differs from the
usual Russian orthodox teaching. o
sort of Baptist influence or some
thing which caused them to be de-
ported from Russia in q body about
100 years ago. Armenia was then
Russian province, like Siberia. and
these curious people have lived
apart from the Armenians, whom
they hate. In villages of their own.
My companion remained in kars but
one day, and returned to Alexandra
pol to help evacuate the warehouses.
For many miles outside Of Kars the
roads were strewn with dead bodies,
mostly naked. formerly peasants.
who had tried to escape from the
city at the coming of the Turks.
but had either frozen or starved to
death on the way, and their surviv-
ing comrades had robbed them Of
their clothes.
Turks TruthfuL
At present we have a Turkish
liaison officer living with US, and
guard Of thirty soldiers and one ma
chine gun. When the Turks with
draw to the line prescribed by the
peace treaty We shall go with them,
but we hope IL will not be before all
our supplies have been evacuated.
The question OF operating under
Turkish rule in Kars is a ticklish
one. although We have not caught
tricky move. They have some of our
autos, but that's war. and. further
more, they back up all their confis-
cations with payment of gold.
We get little news from the out
side. There may be all sorts Of
schemes on to save Armenia from
the Turks and Bolos. but we have
little hope. The allies have left her
absolutely to her fate and a large
slice of the blame rests on the
shoulders of our own government.
There are rumors that Georgia. on
the north of us, will go Bolo at any
time. and then we are dished for
sure, as all our supplies must pass
through Georgia on the way to kars.
There is even talk OF the Turks be-
ing pushed out Of Kars, perhaps in
a few months. by the great Soviet
army. which will sweep down
through Armenia, but we believe,
with Thackeray. nothing we hear.
and only half what we see"