[1] “Through Asiatic Turkey”.
[2] “Three American missionaries called: they had been settled for
several years in Anatolia, and had succeeded in making some converts
amidst the Armenians, but they had not in any one instance induced a
Mohammedan to change his faith. One of them observed that the Turks were
by no means a cruel race.” (Col. F. Burnaby: “On Horseback through Asia
Minor.”)
[3] “Odysseus”: “Turkey in Europe.”
[4] Extract from Sir Henry Layard’s (H.M. Ambassador at Constantinople)
despatches.
[5] I was told some ghastly details, but I doubt the veracity of them, as
they were related to me by a town Armenian.
[6] These would not be so called if committed by any other troops than
those of the Turkish Army.
[7] “Forty years in Constantinople.”
[8] He has since increased this figure to 1,000,000.
[9] The _Times_, in a leading article, adds the further information that
“The Italian Consul, who reports this enormity, saw it done with his own
eyes.”
[10] “Everything had been carefully prepared in Asia and in the Press
of Europe and America before the Armenian outbreak (1895-96) to boom a
second Bulgaria.” (Sidney Whitman: “Turkish Memories.”)
[11] On December 31st, 1913, the Special Correspondent of _The Times_
at Constantinople warned his readers that there was great danger of the
introduction into Asia Minor of Macedonian methods with band-warfare and
all its attendant horrors, and in February, 1914, the Press reported
that a large quantity of contraband ammunition had been seized by the
gendarmerie in the vilayet of Bitlis.