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Show BLIEF PROBLEM "IN "NEAR EAST STILL LOOMS BIG j tf a: & ' ta: vse s8 of SiJe-Dopr Pullmans" Are "Used for "De Luxe" Travel in Turkey jlB BISPUTE I KffllSH BESTO EM tries Interested Decide Settle Difficulties by Series of Conferences. Greater Task Thus posed Upon American j - lief Work Committee, j L Transcaucasia, Deo. CO. (By j V'"-od l'ress.) Colonel "William1 f-Xh commissioner for the four , t.rr's in Armenia, believes ;hat , Tr.-ost difficult questions of the L-'his K-cn solved by settlement 1jV ;te between Armenia, Azer-::.V Azer-::.V Georgia as to which should :V KarnJ-ayh district. o'j;rU't lies between the Black iiij.ii ?eas, just north of the, for- !rVr of rersia and Transcaucasia. ,-.u.lVW of tlit? three countries i'i Ve asrrecd to settle the dispute Territory and to adjust all fur-' fur-' k -recent s ly conference. ili.u'.U'H told the Associated jtv ir.is settlement opens up a Ly.-.r field of work for the Amer-:.i:tce Amer-:.i:tce for relief in the near east, organization." he said, "already fading and clothing 11.000 n forty-two orphanages scat--.ui Russian Armenia be-- be-- fi r 1' 0 e s 1 k c h i 1 d r e n , '-- f.vj:-to.-ii 'hospitals and feed-Jiytse.ess feed-Jiytse.ess refugees or destitute i jTi-k Ahead. ' L :V recent conflict at Zanov-- ; R Africans fed 61.CGU refugees , r-ir.iori'.eod of Shusha. the cap- ; (r d'-ptJted district. F.ven then j -jrur.;... to reach SS.OuO nvre in , (j-iir.u? region known as Kara- j " iu!'-' cur oft by the political I fi-.".S i.O'.V Sc'.tb". " ' ' Tij-x r.-x to bring re lift to j fi: i"","v'. Armenians and Tar- i ft. n the contested territory who , j:-. this winter unless outside help ( V: it- d Spates is the only country . T-:re to r.t!o the population of all :' uoVia, beside, whopo desperate , -)n tl.-- condition in devastated i hr.i K''-!uium is described as sim- 'Eiii t'l.ty. Fifty thousand Ar- 1 ; e vr.o'wl-re left in Turkey are ar- : "-it Erivan, Kars and Alexandropol )i-:, lotP..-'l in bits of torn sack- t.-ti t'-'.-ther with thorns, their : - frti-ily emaciated. Th. slom- K tiny i-hilciren are grotesquely l"i f'Min living on roots and herbs. "c:.::'irt:i are fit only for treatment Vd:ti whrre only a long course of 'tai'.:"'Jl feed jig can remake them 1 jc.ir. br-inys. . Sands Homeless. ev-ry station along the rail-. rail-. k zaurrrtd groups of hundreds of fs ioif lyir.g huddled together on y-l, the majority of them too P'-n to try to help their. selves. ti::: to time the stronger ones 'i ;r-.ht cars 'and move clse-f clse-f fcivraya s.king better conditions, , fc j not tist. Two hundred and . w thousand homeless refugees Turkish Armenia thus are con-J con-J f mU.ir: ahout throughout Russian b. maliing the relief work cor.- 'de Americans a problem re-- re-- .finite patience and organizing I ejvin.Uy true in view of the of 2i?.o--0 drsiitute inhabitants .'JT.ionia who possess homes, I : -I'jti, as well as IGO.OU Oi-'V-ks, i:::;iriS. tfriiins and Yezidis, v- l'iii driven out of parts of I j-iniidrorl and fortv thousand Mos-villages Mos-villages were destroyed in Jr-5uffive years of constant war-' war-' I ";;l','P5siy encamped in the open ; 1 v,! -:-'?3 o! their former enemies, f -'-lauesimal ouantities of flour l-'fy mix wiih dirt to give the U- jf fi'jurish.ment. tae Is Feared. 'P'ir. ar;ds of thousauGs oT suf-mostly suf-mostly hontelero and lack-"! lack-"! ntcHssity cf lite, having notii-e notii-e io lose, arc concentrateil in a LJ;1- inaOenuaLelv policed or , ;t .f':t" constitute a fertile fiei'i br'nv'13 Bolshevism or any ff)rm spread of which once h!l imiiossibie to oreLllet. -oalTOil unquestionably is the k-Ti lialv'try, sporadic revolu- ji comets and general political ''ic:'out ti'e Caucasus, 01 which tcr',:VJ 1"1kci-u:jij1ous elements are - -a:n to take advantage sooner t..!h,rnt, economic situation in hi,' already has prompted" the v. ' rnr.ie-rit to order all tcinpo-;'s,,; tcinpo-;'s,,; f Tlfiln, who are unable wl , '"'y are mpioycd and tarn- CTk!!"!iVBI Klul their 4i..(. . ; th Cll'. as the supply '' will he insuKicient. W Is Difficult. ,,h'-s 'n this way to eliminate .til.- ' JJ"l-'live mouths and to con- v , l"'"1 limited supply of food T Population of the cap- 'tos wR'--arners in the liaku fcn i,f , AT" unemployed, owiriK to ih "1 "PJtion of oil. This 1 sirr,ii-,r Affitldte government to i i- P1'- !r ariv,:n 0,,t of Tlf-.-4 mi.'.'.1'.v '" have nowhere else ifW inevitably be added to nicss 'n "''ytlex wanderers whom - Ti, -'a"s are ab,e or willins haii.f east relief supplies "y an. s,''ff'clent only until iipvv "',10llV ina.le.piate to - oraln upon the ex-lstlng l.iinn?'!!y, lit:te.l in the f'au-!' f'au-!' "'' "'Jim f,"15"''-'"" of the near (,,,, w -'i.t.. ... already have saved . n '! ef -o'"'lSt 3"-'"J habies and -r ' '' l" n adult r.-uio'ee'i and j w! m is contlnu- i t |