Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-29 | Page 2 | Armenia Must Have Access to Seaport

WASHINGTON, May 28. .By The ' Associated Press). In arbitrating the boundaries of Armenia, President Wil- son, it is said, will insist that the now JM republic be given access to the sea through Batum, which, tho allied su- A JM preme council has tentatively decided Mi shall bo a free port under inter-allied control. Batum is one of tho most important HH ports on the Black sea and is the ter-minus ter-minus of the trans-Caucasian pipe lines to tho extensive Baku oil fields IflH It also Js the outlet for Georgia and Azebeljan. It was to this port that the presi- " dent was requested In a recent aenate 4 - I resolution to send a warship with ma- I 1 rinea for tho protection or American lives and property there and along the fl "lino of railway leading to Baku " Under the terms of the Turkish trea- iH ty, Turkoy and Armenia and the other l-H high contracting powers expressly -I agree not only to refer to arbitration -H or President Wilson the question of the -i boundareis or Armenia, but aIBo to ac -H cept "any stipulation he may prescribe as to access to the sea for the inde -H pendent slate of Armenia"' The state department, it is under- H stood, has begun the preparations of a -H memorandum designed to assist the H president in tho determination of tho -H Armenian boundaries as the president will undertake this work regardless It V the action by congress on his requeBt H that he be given authority to ac?ej iH menia:8 a lnanda H