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Show WILSON DRAWS NEW FRONTIER FORJRMENIA Cuts Less Deeply Into Former Turkish Territory Than Extreme Ex-treme Limits Prescribed CONDITIONS IN NATION GROW MORE CHAOTIC Allies to Postpone Putting in Effect of President's Boundary Bound-ary Decision 1 WASHINGTON. Deo. 31. By the s.icla'ed 1 res 1 . 1 no rew irauiwi of Armenis on ihs Turkish slc as ,Immi i.- President Wilson at the m-v m-v 1 on of the allied premiers cuts less deeply into former Turkish territory ter-ritory than the extreme limits Vrc- scribed bv th premiers, it wan learned learn-ed today at the White House. The note f invitation from the premiers asked the president to (lx the frontier "in the vilayets 6f EJrs-eroum, EJrs-eroum, Treblaond. Van and Bitlls." but it was sid that none t these vilayets1 vilay-ets1 or provinces was included In its entirety in Armenia. Roughly. the boundary as drawn ly Mr Wilson extends ex-tends from the Black sea at a point slightly west pr T-trcbolV weal o UM; kul and RWIhgan through Mltkan west of Muli and Bitlls and south of like Va:i to the frontier of Azet-beijhari. Azet-beijhari. TRRlTOR in A m i The vilayets of Dlarbakr.ar. 8 vast ll irpoot and Adana, t.onieiliiie- claimed claim-ed by zealous Armenians, were not Included in the pnesident S aw ard nor was there any attempt 10 draw Lh eastern frontier of Armenia contiguous contigu-ous to Georgia and AJSerbaiJan. The allies are understood to have lef! 'h determination of this ptiil -f the boundary for R'purat- negotiaiiori with tl,' trans-Caucasian republics of Georgia Geor-gia and Azerbaijan. 1 1 in 1 11 in CHAOTli S.r.'-e ('resident Wilson commuai-cated commuai-cated bis boundary decision to the allied p: '-ui-ers s v,': al w ei;s a;i e on dltion6 iii Armenia have become bo chaotic as a result of the BolsbeVlkl C the Turkjsh Nationalists that the allh-9 are expected to postpone tem-poraSTily tem-poraSTily the putting into effect of the president s i-ii:ulary decision. State department officers have suid that because of conditions In Armenia Ar-menia the president did not antlcl- pate pushing th- misslr , of ar'dtra-! ar'dtra-! tion between the Armenians and the Turkish Nationalists which he accepted ac-cepted recently at the lnitatlon of i the assembly of the league of nations. na-tions. The president ig represented as desiring to wait until the situation in the t rans-OuucasiiM has c larified, o o |