Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-19 | Page 9 | Hopes Conference will not Forget near-East Phase

HOPES CONFERENCE WILL NOT FORGET NEAR-EAST PHASE NEW YORK. Dec. IS. A telegram was made public here today from Vice President Presi-dent Marshall expressing his hope that the cry of Armenia and Syria against the wrongs done them by Turkey "will reach the heart of the just men who will sit at the peace council." The vice president's message, sent December De-cember 11 to the Armenian National Union of America, said that the sufferings of Belgium at the hands of the Germans seemed to him to have been mild in comparison com-parison with the brutality and inhumanity exhibited by Turkey toward Armenia. As an individual American and speaking speak-ing without authority Mr. Marshall said he voiced the hope that the peace conferees con-ferees would not forget "the gTeat problem prob-lem of the near east." It has developed in connection with the presentation of the papal letter that it was not in response to President Wilson's Wil-son's reply to the pope's congratulations for the part taken by the United States in the war. Monsignor Cerretti Intended to present it at Washington, as he had been delegated to attend Cardinal Gib-bons's Gib-bons's jubilee at Baltimore, but was recalled re-called from England, where he was about to embark when it was learned, that President Wilson soon would be In France. I Tho papal envoy left the Murat mansion man-sion after a brief visit.