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Show WILSON AGREES 10 ACT AS MEDIATOR PRESIDENT PLEDGES HIS GOOD OFKICES FOR THE RE-LIEF RE-LIEF OF ARMENIA. Will Endeavor, with the Assurance of Moral and Diplomatic Support of Powers to Bring About Peace Between Contenidng Countries. Washington. President Wilson has proffered his personal mediation, through a "representative," to end hostilities in Armenia. The offer was in reply to an invitation invi-tation from Paul Hymans, president of the council of the league of nations, na-tions, transmitting a resolution adopted in behalf of Armenia by the assembly of the league at Geneva, November 22. It requested that the "horrors of the Armenian tragedy" be brought to the attention of the powers, with a view to entrusting some power with the task of taking the necess-ary measures to stop the hostilities in Armenia. The United States, although not a member of the league, was included among the nations na-tions of the world to whom the broad-east broad-east invitation was issued. Adoption of the resolution was preceded pre-ceded by some discussion of the feasibility feas-ibility of organizing an international force to intervene in Armenia, assailed as-sailed alternately by Turkish Nationalists, Na-tionalists, the bolsheviki and other transcaucasian elements. In his reply, however, Mr. Wilson sail he was without authorization to offer or employ the military forces of the United States in any project for the relief of Armenia, or any material ma-terial contributions requiring the consent con-sent of congress', "which is not now in session and whose- action I could not forecast." The president declared, however, that he was willing, upon assurance of the moral and diplomatic support of the principal powers, to endeavor to bring about peace between the contending con-tending paries in Armenia through arbitration. He asked suggestions as to the avenues through which the proffer should be presented and powers pow-ers to whom it should be addressed. |