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Show JUiSIIG 1 ARMENIANS Extermination of Race Is Threatened; Tartars Aid Ottoman Troops. PARIS, July 30. (By the Associated-Press.) Associated-Press.) Turks and Tartars are moving-upon moving-upon the Armenians from three sides. They have cut off the American relief supplies and threaten all the remaining Armenians with extermination unless additional ad-ditional military protection Is afforded, according- to dispatches from Major Joseph Jo-seph C. Green of Cincinnati, who is directing di-recting the American relief administration's administra-tion's work from Tiflis. Herbert Hoover, director general of relief, re-lief, immediately submitted ' MajoS Green's message to the peace conference, ; which already had similar reports fnarti other American and British observers. Major Green, under date of July 23, sends the following from Tiflis: "Had a long conference with the Ar-J mc-nian president today. The aituatiuq is worse. The Turkish army, weil pre- pared, and Tartars are advancing from three sides. If military protection is not afforded to Armenia immediately, the $ disaster will be more terrible than the massacres In 1915, and the Armenian nation na-tion will be crushed, to the everlasting shame of the allies. I "Relief work is impossible in the pres-1 pres-1 ent situation unless order is restored. ; Cannot something be done to have the British force in the Caucasus intervene to save Armenia?" Under date of July 24, Major Green telegraphs: "The Turks and Tartars are advanctj in the districts of Karabagh nnd Aqbl They now occupy a " o-.-irYiatr"l'viieA opened territory of Russian Armenia. Turkish colonel is commanding ti Azerbaijan Tartars.'' |