Azerbaijanis Claim 1,000 Died While Fleeing Raid in Disputed Enclave By Thomas Goltz. Special to The Washington Post BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 3 — Reports from refugees arriving here of a massacre by Armenian forces last week in the town of Khojaly are adding new fuel to the fiery confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The precise […]

Refugees Claim Hundreds Died in Armenian Attack By Thomas Goltz; Special to The Washington Post AGDAM, AZERBAIJAN, FEB. 27 – Officials of the main mosque in this town just east of the embattled enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh said they buried 27 bodies today, brought from an Azerbaijani town inside the enclave that was captured Wednesday by Armenian […]

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, Sept. 19 The British have evacuated Baku owing to Armenian failure to co-operate. (Received Sept.20, 11.55.p.m.) It was recognized from the first that our sending an expedition to Baku was hazardous. It was known that the Armenian National Council had made a definite peace with the Turks and sent […]

(Daily Telegraph Batoum Correspondent.) Life in Baku under Lenin’s Soviet Government during the last eight weeks affords an atrocious contrast to the professions made by Lenin’s emissaries to the West. The criminal imposture of Lenin and Krassin surpasses all records, for there is irrefutable evidence before me that the treatment to which the population of […]

So the Little Republic of Azerbaidjan Is Called— Its Territorial Dispute with Armenia AZERBAIDJAN, the ” Land of Eternal Fires” of the ancient Persians, independent or semi-independent for many centuries, then for a hundred years crushed into submission to the iron yoke of the Czars of all the Russias, only to rise again after the Russian revolution. […]

(Reuter.) LONDON, July 6. A message from Tiflis states that 25,000 Armenian troops have occupied Erivan. Erivan is the fortified capital of a Transcaucasian Government, on an elevated plain to the north of Ararat, on the river Sanga. For centuries the town has been held alternatively by Persian and Turks. The province has a population […]

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) ST. PETERSBURG, 27th Feb. The Russian Government has prepared a bill providing for the irrigation of the Karabagh Steppe, at a cost of million pounds sterling. Eighty-one thousand acres will be devoted to cotton plantations. [Karabagh (“black garden”) was at one time a Khanate, and later a province of Transcaucasia. It is […]

United Press Association. – By Electric Telegraph – Copyright. Received July 19, 10 a.m. Constantinople, July 16. A serious situation has arisen in Transcaucasia owing to the Bolsheviks ordering the withdrawal of Armenian troops in Karabagh, Zangezur, and Nakhicevan districts, with the object of creating a friendly independent State on the Turkish border through which […]