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Show ARMENIANS MENACED IF BRITISH LEAVE PARTS, Aug. 9. Two hundred thousand thou-sand Armenian refugees in the, Caucasus Cau-casus aro on the verge of starvation, and 300,000 more will be without food, it was stated today by Walter George bmith of tlie American Commission lor Relief, if the British withdraw troops that have been guarding the line of the relief supplies. Mr. Smith has .been acting in the near east for the commission. com-mission. British troops, he said, constitute the only force that is keeping the Tartars and Kurds from breaking up the entire system of relief on which the commission commis-sion spent $25,000,000. |