ARMENIA'S AWFUL PLIGHT
• ' •- ; BRITISH 'WITHDRAWAL MAY BE POSTPONED. London, A ugust 14. A member of the American Armenian Commission who has returned to London, (fives an appalling account of/the. plight of the Armenians, who are suffering irom starvation and typhus. .Even cannibalism wan witnessed, some people devouring ooiiked grasses mixed with women's flesh. The Armenians iii the Caucasus were surrounded b.Y hordes of Kurds,' Turks.'l'ur--1»«i, and>Bolsherik Georgians. Lnver Pasha, who. commands the Turks, and is in constant communication with Lenin fiTid. Trotsky,, is planning to attack Deni-, ken in the rear in the event, of a British withdrawal. 11; is understood that there is a possibility that the Allied Council will postpone tho withdrawal, pending, arrangements to substitute othor troops.—AiiaN.Z. Cable Assn. OBLIGATIONS INVOLVED IN ■ MANDATE. ■ Paris, August. 13. An Amerioau mission is proceeding to Armeuia to.inauiro into the obligations involved Bliould 1 America accept die' mandate.—Renter. j
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 275, 16 August 1919, Page 7
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