Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1920 — COL HASKELL QUITS ALLIES [ARTICLE]

COL HASKELL QUITS ALLIES

American Officer, High Commissioner to Armenia, Resigns—British Blow Up Forts. Constantinople, July 9. —Col. William N. Haskell, the American officer who has been high commissioner of the allies to Armenia since July, 1919, has resigned, his resignation to become effective when the British evacuate Batum, on the Black sea. The British have blown up all fortifications on the theory that Batum should be a free port of Georgian territory. The bolshevik embassy in Tiflis, consisting of 48 persons, provided with expensive American automobiles of recent make, have requisitioned the best houses in Tiflis. The embassy has plenty of money and is actively engaged In propaganda work.