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frontiers. A certain body which had met in London (he him- self had not been a member of it) had contemplated handing over Erzerum to Armenia, as this very powerful fortress, if left in the hands of the Turks, would constitute a perpetual menace to the safety of Armenia. Again, pressure had been brought to bear upon the Allies to give Armenia access to the sea, more particularly at Trebizond. Then, again, it had been proposed to carry the border of Armenia down to Lake Van, which would include a big stretch of country where the Armenians were in a minority, and which was occupied by Turkish troops. He himself thought that it would be long before Armenia and her new army would be able to maintain themselves without external support. The Allied Governments had agreed that they could not send troops to Armenia. Were they then to remain in the Treaty the boundaries they had contemplated, or should these boundaries undergo some modi- fication? This, he thought, was a vital question, and ought to be settled at once. It was, indeed, a question not of generalities but of concrete fact. Mr LLOYD GEORGE enquired as to the fighting value of the Armenian troops. M. BERTHLOT said that many of them had many martial qualities, and had fought well against Georgia. LORD CURZON said that he would ask Marshal Foch the follow- ing question: supposing the Allies trusted the Armenians to raise their own forces in order to defend their frontiers, ar if the Allies agreed that they were not in a position to send any troops to reinforce the Armenians, and if the Allied Governments still adhered to the boundaries as at prese contemplated, what military forces did Marshal Foch think that Mustapha Kemal could dispose, and would the Turks, in the Marshal's opinion, be able to invade Russian Armenia? MARSHAL FOCHE said that the initial difficulty facing Armenians was the formation of a new army which should be sufficiently strong to maintain the Armenian frontiers if