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Show MADE FAMOUS BY NOAH; fl WANTED U. S. TO MAKE Bfl IT FREE. H Ono of the states which asked the BBf United States to bo Its mandatory Is BB Nakhlchovnn. BBf If you hnvo not heard of NaUhlcb- BB cvan, first consult Genesis 8:1, for BB tho district In question lies nt the pB foot of Mt. Ararat, and tho town of BBf Nakhichevan contains tho alleged BBf graveyard of Noah. Tho builder of BBf tho Ark, local tradition nfurms. wept vVJ down into tho land that sought the BBf wing of tbo United States. Thero ho BBf Is snld to bavo died of thirst In the BBf pnrcbed plain after bis nrk had brok- BBf en up on tho snowy peak of tho BB world's most famous mountain. JBB Tho Nakhichevan district, Inhabited Wfl by Tnrtars, Is bounded on tho north Sfl by tho Armentnn district of Krlvnn. Sfl Along tho south flows tho Arnx river, BJ which Is tho subject of many an Ar- Bfl mcnlnn song nnd which here forms tlio jBfl boundary between Asiatic Hussln nnd Bfl Pel sin. In tho hills to tho northeast Bfl Is Sliusha, a strong Armenian center, Bfl where tho Armenians held out against BJ n circle of foes In tho Hummer of 1018. Bfl When Hussln's power In tho Caucasus flH declined and tho soldots flowed back Sfl from tho former Husslnn front In Tor- jflj key through tho Nakhichevan district, flj tho traditional hatred between tho Ar- flj menlnus of tho Krlvnn district and IB tho Mohammedan Tnrtars broke out, HJ This closed tho currlngo road to HJ Tabriz and later cloned tho railway. flj At great risk several members of the flj American Commltteo for Armenian flj nnd Syrian Hellef, with headquarters flj nt Krlvnn, went to Tabriz nnd brought HJ back several million roubles In a train flj thnt was so crowded with retreating flj Husslnn snldnts that one of tho com- flj mltteo members, upholstered with jHJ hundreds of thousands of roubles, wns fll forced to sleep on tho roof of the car H In n temperature nenr zero. Within a flj week tho railway service was stopped HJ by Armculnn-Tnrtnr fighting, flj Tho uprising of tho Nakhlchovnn iHJ Tnrtars wus III timed. Gcrmnn propn- 'iflj gandlsts had placarded the district -flj with posters exhorting theso Tartars, flj who are related to the Turks and are 'flj of tho samo religion, to nrlso ngulnnt flj tho Anncnlnns, whom tho retreating flj Husslnns had left to their own do- HJ vices. This they did. Hut tho Ar- 'fffl menlnns bad spent tho winter In rats- Uj Ing nn army to take over tho former flj Husslnn front and nbout 'JS.000 of flj theso volunteers wero assembled In flj Krlvnn. flj When tho writer crossed tho Igdlr fl plnln, whore Anncnlnns nro stnrvlng LIB today, theso much persecuted people ?B wero bnvlng their Inning .nnd the ;H smoke from n scorn of burning Tnr- ' B tar villages could bo seen. Tartars J with nrms wen? allowed to llvo If B thoy surrendered their guns, nnd ;JB womon nnd children wero not touched, B but their vlllngos were looted and 'fl burned by tho Armenians. This was j'Jfl In March, 1010. All tho Tnrtnrs re- fl treated to tho Nakhichevan district 9 wbero they formed a majority of the fl population. Thero they have re- fl mnlned. Hatred between them and -9 tho Annonlnns Is strong, fl Tlio whole problem Is mndo difficult fl by tho diversity of tho population. In JM tho mountain villages the Kurds aro most numerous. A strong hand will ffl bo necessary to control Uioso sovoral fl tribes. The IC'in!-' bavo boon forced fl to bo butchers by the Turks, who gave fl them guns as tholr only tools, and fl who kept ngrlculturo nnd education m from them. Tholr condition wns as iO bad for n tlmo ns that of the Anne- 1M nlans, and along the Turko-Ituwlnn ifl boundary scores of Kurds wero to be M seen with only one gnnnent and bare- M fort at an altitude of seven K jsand m feet H March. |
