The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-11
|NF|DEL TURK,
KURD War ON
BIBLE Scene
Gods Prophecy to Noah Is
Fulfilled by Battle on
Mt. Ararat.
PERSIA GETS ULTIMATUM
Renal Pasha Charges
Bands of Robbers Backed
by Government.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, July lion the
plateau of Ararat, where the ark
landed after the flood, Turks and
Kurds are killing each other in
battle, just as God told Noah they
would.
Because of this rumpus, a war
between Turkey and Persia may be
merely a question of days. Renal
Pasha claims the Kurds have in
vaded Turkish territory with the
backing of the Persian government,
and has sent IT. ultimatum to Te-
heran demanding that Persia re-
store order or the Turks will do it
themselves.
The Ararat region is where mod
ern Turkey, Russia and Persia meet,
half way between the Caspian and
Black seas and south of Aifis. No
spot anywhere on the globe has wit
messed such dramatic and fateful
happenings, according to Biblical
history.
Across this plateau flows the
rivers Aras and Araxes. where ira
dition places the Garden OF Eden
and where Adam and Eve started
humanity going in the shade Of the
original apple tree.
Noah Story Center
Here centers the story of the del
uge of which "all that was in the
dry land died." and from which
only Noah and his family and the
birds and beasts which he took into
the ark, two by two" survived.
Here MI. and Mrs. Noah landed
after the dove had come back to the
ark with an olive leaf in its beak,
and along with them their three
sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet
These are the three sons OF Noah"
Genesis tells us, land of them was
the whole earth o~verspread." Thus.
says the Bible, it is from this very
spot-where Turks and KurdS now
are fghting-that all of us hail,
every man, woman and child on
earth.
Just as it was here that the "be-
CATS" of Genesis 10 had their start,
here, too, where Noah planted his
first vineyard after the great mum
dation, and made the wine on which
he got drunk,
ReheId Noah Nude
Here was pitched the tent in
which Ham beheld Noah nude and
went off to tattle to his brothers Of
what he had seen. For which eS-
capade he and his descendants were
made forever slaves to the children
of Japhet and Skcm who, respect
fully walking in backward SO they
could not witness their fathers
nakedness, covered him up.
1t was here, right after the flood,
that God promised Noah that never
again would there be such another
flood and planted a rainbow in the
heavens in token of his covenant.
Here Noah lived for $50 years
afterWard. Here Mrs. Noah died
and here was she buried at Marand,
in the shelter of Ararat's peaks.
The region always has been fer
tile with discord, since Adam and
Eve and the angel first fell out over
the forbidden fruit. The AsSyrianS
sent a number of expeditions to
annex 1t as far back as 900 years
before Christ. Tens of thousands of
Armenians have been masSacred in
the vicinity.
Called Noah's Mount
The Turks called the plateau
Aghri Dagh, or steel mountain"
Persians call it Koh-I-Nuh, mean
ing "Noah'S Mountain"
There are two peaks, Great Ara
rat. more than 1900 feet high,
which today is covered with per-
petual snow, and Little Ararat,
1880 feet high. There used to
be a little summer resort at the
base, and a monastery or the site
of Noah's Vineyard, but a terrible
earthquake in 1910 caused both to
be buried forever under a landslide.
God told Noah that while there
would be no more worldwide mum
dations, man would, nevertheless,
have plenty of trouble.
AT the hand of every mans
brother" God said, will I require
the blood of man." And again,
Whose sheddeth mans blood, by
man shall his blood be she'd"
Today, on Ararat's slopes, with no
little verve and vigor, infidel Turk
and fanatical Kurd are carrying out