RECENT TROUBLES: Unfair Exploitation of One-sided Reports—Standards
of Proof declining in Times of Trouble—Captain
Fortescue on the Looting of Pera Palace—Sir
William Osler on Emotional Instability—“A
Well-known Hand”—Sources of Lord Crewe’s
Information—Improbability of Unprovoked Turkish
Action:—Military and Political Situation—Habitual
Calm and Tolerance of the Turk—Conditions
Favourable to Armenian Rising—What Actually
Happened—Armenians Capture Van Butcher the
Inhabitants—Further Risings—Necessity of Repressive
Measures—Moslems alarmed for own Safety—Panic and
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