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Show WOflLDGQUNCIL loILdIIIIIIIl WASHINGTON, May 6. (By Tho Associated Press.) The council of the league of nations has refused to offer a mandate for Armenia to any power unless certain requested stipulations are embodied by the supreme council in the Turkish settlement. According to official information received re-ceived hero today, the league council in a note to the supreme council has insisted that the boundaries of Armenia Armen-ia be fixed; that a free port, preferably prefer-ably Batum, be accorded her; and that protection for tho defense of the new state be provided by the league council. coun-cil. Joint Financial Responsibility Proposed. The council of the league declares that no state should be asked to assume as-sume the burden of financing Armenia, but suggests assumption of joint financial finan-cial responsibility by the powers. 9 I the mandate should be offered to a small power as has been suggested, it was said, provision for an international interna-tional military force should be made In order not lo inflict an Impossible burden upon a country incapable of bearing it. At the same time such an international force, it was pointed out, would give to all tho powers an interest inter-est in the Armenian nation. The action of the council of the league, It .was stated, was taken previous prev-ious to tho decision of the supreme council at San Remo to offer the Armenian Ar-menian mandato to tho United States. In requesting President Wilson to fix tho Armenian boundaries, the supremo su-premo council is believed by officials to havo shown a disposition to comply with that particular of the league's suggestion sug-gestion concerning Armenia. Political Obligation to U. S, The direct proffer of a mandate contrary con-trary to the league's advice Is taken by officials as indicating not so much a spirit of antagonism to the league by the supreme council as a deairo to fulfill a political obligation to the United States which the league has felt Incumbent upon it In tho Turkish settlement. |