Evening star., 1921-02-20
PAPER NATION Of
ARMENIA IS GONE
Only Few Mountain Districts
Remain of Country Set Up
by Sevres Treaty.
bs Cable TO The Star and Chicago Daily News
COpTright 1921

by Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
Copyright, 1921.
T1FL1S, February 19.-When Henry
Morgenthau arrives to adjudicate
the borders of Armenia on be-
half of President Wilson and the
league of nations he will find there
is nothing to do. Armenia. as en-
yisaged by the treaty of Sevres, is
finished, apparently forever. Of the
former paper nation of propagandists'
dreams. with Tribizond as it's seaport.
notnlng now remains save a. few
mountain districts like Erivan and
karaklis. The Turks have annexed
the district and fortress of kars. in
former Russian Armenia, and the re-
maInder is bankrupt soviet republic
uhoer the Russian aegis, constantly
menaced by the relentless Turks
To restore from this mess the Ar
menia of the treaty Of Sevres would
require an entente army willing and
capable Of fighting the bolsheviki and
tne 'Iurks: The entente. which has
Deen unwilling ever to send a single
soldier to save Armenia, certainly will
not send an army now. No one in the
near east takes the Wilson adjudica-
ton seriously, save a few of the
Iurklsh nationalists. who imagine
that President Wilson will send an
army to defend the boundaries he
names. The only hope for Armenian
national life lies in the protection
given by Moscow to it's new proteges.
Armenian Soldiers Mercilexs.
Meanwhile Georgian troops are oc-
cupylng the neutral zone northwest
OF Armenia. What is now left of that
country is struggling against cold.
starVatIon' typhus and smashed mo-
rale. The American Near East Re-
lief orga nization continues at work
though its technical status is uncer
taln, ano no orders from the New York
once have been received to date.
Amerrans from Armenia say that
much OF the present misery was caused
by the Armenian troops during the re-.
treat. kars was not captured. the
Turks simply walked in. The PRINCIPAL
port was taken by forty men. The
Armenians ran at the first shot and
retreated across the country, Iootinr
everywhere and sometimes bayonefine
Armenian women. They robbed whoIe
villages and left nothing. They roh-
bed the American relief station at
karaklis The Turks did not mas
sacre many, but apparently adopted a
consistelt policy of destruction. steal
ing everything valuable. including
the seet for spring planting, which
means utter ruin. The Armenian ci-
william pc pulation fled in droves before
the double peril Of Armenian and
10
Bolxheviki Lends Aid,
Now the situation is better Twenty
thousand refugees are encamped at
AleXandropol and many are distrib-
uted among the villages. but the
Near East Relief feeds 5000 a day in
karaklis. Medical and other supplies
are running short. The Near E;asr
workers in Erivan are buying flour in
the open market while awaiting in
structions from New York. The local
bolsheviki government donated So. 600
900 rubles normally S25O0O. 000) In
the American relief work and also
placed the British lord mayors fund in
american hands for administration
The bolsheviki sent twentv-sevnn
cars of grain and six cars of fuel oil
to karaklis, with promise of NOR
They offered Capt. Grant, the Ameri'
can director in karaklis, 5000 600 in
American currency for the relief WorL
This money was captured from The
officials of the old Armenian povern
ment while they were attempting 1o
escape. "
Gen. Kouresko, the red commando
In karaklis. is scrupulously regardfuI of
American rights. He pays in kind for
all supplies requested from the Ameri-
cans and ruthlessly Furnishes dishonestv
in his own ranks