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Show fiEljpOfitS American Commission for Near East Warehouses Seized; Officer Is Prisoner CONSTANTINOPLE, May IS. (By the Associated Press) Colonel William Will-iam F. Haskell, director general of relief re-lief work in the Caucausus region, re turned to Datum on Sunday from Tiflis after an unsuccessful attempt to reach Armenia, where train service has been suspended during the last ten days because be-cause of lack of oil. Motor transportation transpor-tation was impossible, Colonel Haskell Has-kell finding the roads blocked by warring war-ring Georgians and Azerbaijans. The Bolsheviki hold Alcxandropol In tho government of Erlvan and control tho rail routes into, Armenia, although the Armenians still control the towns 6f Erivan and Karal'cala, fifty miles southwest of Erivan. The Bolshevists hold all the warehouses ware-houses of the American commission for relief in the Near East at Alex-andropol, Alex-andropol, and Colonel Haskell's representative rep-resentative there is virtually a prisoner, prison-er, taking orders from Bolshevists. The Georgians and Azerbaijans are fighting on the railway near the boundary. bound-ary. The bridge across the Kur river has been destroyed and no oil is moving mov-ing westward from Baku. Tho Brtish and Georgians aro at the point of fighting in Batum province, where many villages have been shelled by tho Georgians, and General Milne, commanding the British, has been under un-der random shell fire. Colonel Haskell brought many British and Italians out of Tiflis. Most of the foreigners there expect to bo forced out shortly. j The train carrying Colonel Haskell was tho first to leave Tiflis in two days. Before the crisis Colonel Haskell Has-kell put enough food for six months in most of the orphanages, but great uneasiness un-easiness is felt by the relief workers lest it be seized. no |