Arizona republican., 1921-01-23
MILITARY AC1|ON
 BY WORLD POWER WILL NEVER END ARMENIAN WARS
President BIanaes Treaty Of Sevres For Present Dis
 tress Tn Armenia-Can Not Bring Peace By Force
rRepublIcan A. P. Leased Wlrel

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-President Wilson's note to Paul Hymans, presl- dent of the league of nations assesn- bly, on mediation in Armenia, as transmitted by Acting Secretary Of State Devis. follows:
 ''Your telegram of December 26, transmitting a message received by the council from the British govern ment concerning Armenia, stating Ar menia is reported to be under the con- trol of soviet Russia. and suggesting that the president instruct the Amer ican high commissioner at Constanti nople to take up the matter with the allied high commissioners. has been received and read with interest by the president, who instructs me to reply as follows:
 The president does not deem it practicable to instruct the American commissioner at Gonstaptino to s<z fOr io ray as1q ss,sn ssIs s Ss s. s chosen ti.s Izon zaetzxy MQxE;e2 v ] who has bean .prepa ca to at ber hlsn in such steps 8s may be takeri Be- fore instructing him to pToceetl. how ever. the president has been awaiting the definite assurances and fhfornaa- tion from all the principal powers hl- terested as requested in his cable iof 1 November 30, defining condit ions urn- der which he would endeavoIf to me diate.
 1 ."The message from the British prime minister transmitted by yolh on De l cember 26 would seem to indicate the 1 impracticability or futilitsf of the presidents addressing himse f. at leakt in the first instance. to the Armenians. and Kemalists. The president is in clinedf to share this view and to feel that no solution can be lad without l first getting at the source of the trouble.
 Sevres Treaty Blamed
 Pending receipt of information and assurances requested by the president in his telegram of November S0 it is deemed wise to state the problem as the president views 1t. it's causes and possible remedies. It would appear that the immediate cause of trouble in
 Armenia and Turkey has been the treaty of Sevres. Admittedly this was a difficult question with which to con- tend, but the treaty was drafted by the allied powers and the trouble has
 arisen over the failure of certain fac
 tions to accept this treaty and of the
 allies to enforce it. This is a Ques-
 tion over which the president has no
 control and measures which he might
 take or recommend in this direction would be dependent upon hearty CO., operation and support of the allied
 
 "The British prime minister calls
 attention 10 the report that Armenia is under the control of Moscow, from ] which it appears another complication has developed. The dependence of Ar
 menia on soviet Russia Is another sit
 nation over which the president has no control and he sees no action he could take to free Armenia without moral and diplomatic support of the principal powers which holds promise of bring
 ing peace and accord to the contending
 parties.
 "There is bitter distrust and fear of war along all the Russian borders
 It seems futile to attempt to bring
 peace to the Caucasus if the result is
 merely to free the forces there en-
 gagged in new campaigns on other sec
 tors. The distressful situation of Ar I menia is but one detail Of this vast Russian problem. and the president most earnestly urges his conviction . that 1t is only by a general and com : prehensive treatment of the whole