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MADE FAMOUS BY NOAH;
WANTED u. S. TO MAKE
IT FREE.


United States to be its mandatory Is
Nakhichevan.
Ii you have not heard of Nakhich-
evan, first consult Genesis ga, for
the district in question lies at the
foot of Mt Ararat, and the town OF
NakhicheVan contains the alleged
graveyard of Noah. The builder OF
the Ark, local tradition affirms, went
down into the land that sought the
wing Of the United States. There he
is said to have died Of thirst in the
parched plain after his ark had brok-
ell up on the snowy peak of the
worlds most famous mountain.
The Eakhichevan district, Inhabited
by Tartars, is bounded on the north
by the Armenian district Of Eriyan.
Along the south flows the Arax river,
which is the subject Of many an Ar
menian song and which here forms the
boundary between Asiatic Russia and
Persia. In the hills to the northeast
Is Shusha a strong Armenian center,
where the Armenians held out against
a circle of foes in the summer OF 1918.
When Russia's power in the Caucasus
declined and the soldats flowed back
from thu far?'nr Russian front In Tur-
key thro.zh thG Nakhichevan district.
the tradi:" hatred between the AT
menians If The Erivan district and
the Moharmedan Tartars broke out.
This closed the carriage road to
Tabriz and later closed the railway.
Al great risk several members of the
American Committee for Armenian
and Syrian Relief with headquarters
at Erivan, went to Tabriz and brought
back several million roubles in train
that was so crowded with retreating
Russian soldats that one of the COM
mittee members, upholstered with
hundreds of thousands of roubles, was
forced to sleep on the roof of the car
in Il temperature near zero. Within
week the railway service was stopped
by Arnenian-Tartar fighting.
The uprising of the Nakhichevan
Tartars was Ill timed. German propa-
gandists had placarded the district
with posters exhorting these Tartars,
who are related to the Turks and are
of the same religion, TO arise against
the Armenians, whom the retreating
Russians had left to their own de-
vices. This they did. But the Ar
menians had spent the winter In rails
ing an army to take over the former
Russian front and about $4,000 OF
these volunteers We're assembled In
Erivan.
When the writer crossed the 1gdir
plain, where Armenians are starving
today, these much prosecuted people
were having their inning and the
smoke from a score of burning Tar
tar villages could be seen. Tartars
with arms were allowed to live 81
they surrendered their guns, and
women and children were not touched.
bat their villages were looted and
burned by the Armenians. This was
in March. 1919. All the Tartars re-
treated to the Nakhichevan district
where they formed majority Of the
population. There they have re-
NAMED Hatred between them and
the Armenlans Is strong,
The whole problem is made difficult
by the diversity of the population. In
the mountain villages the Kurds are
most numerous. A strong hand will
be necessary to control these several
tribes. The Kurds have been forced
to be butchers by the Turks, who gave
them guns as their only tools, and
who kept agriculture and education
from them. Their condition was as
bad for a time as that Of the Arme-
mans. epA along the Turk0-" ussian
bouadar- scores of Kurds I.src 10 be
seen with only one garment . It bare
foot at an altitude of seven thousand
feet. In March,
Lynched Murder Suspect.
Meridian, Miss, Jan: 5.-Robert Lew
IS, q nrcf'n accused Of the smrredr OF
T. w 'Ir =. 4 railroad wat, 1 was
lynchcG l,trg by mob VIII ,orced
the policeman who had arrested Lewis
to surrender his prisoner.