DEPORTATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: Orders from Constantinople--German
Influence--No Exceptions to be Made--Reasons for Scheme of
Transportation--A Procession of Doomed Victims--Unparalleled
Savagery--Character of Armenian People--Turks Encourage Armenian
Organizations which, Later, They Brand as “Revolutionary”--“The
Blackest Page in Modern History”--Five Hundred Men Imprisoned in an
Armenian Church--Awaiting Orders to March into Exile--Allowed to Take
but Few Possessions--Searching Out Armenian Names--The Procession
as Seen from a College Compound--A Hopeless Journey of a Thousand
Miles--Forced to Abandon Food and Bedding on the Road--Uncertainty of
the Fate of Loved Ones--The Minds of Some Become Unbalanced--Boys and
Girls Sold to Mohammedans to be Reared in that Faith--Two Girls Sold
for Eighty Cents--A Loyal Priest of Ninety--Women and Girls Carried
off to an Unknown Fate--At the Euphrates River--A Faithful Teacher
Accompanies Her School Girls on Their Way to Exile--Extracts from Her
Letters--“Getting Accustomed to Being Robbed”--Exiles from Tocat--Men
Tied Together for Execution Overtaking Those Who Had Fallen by the Way
from Former Deportations--Not Allowed to Go Further--No Later Word
from Her Companions--Dual Orders Issued from Constantinople: One to be
Made Public, the Other to Deal with Armenians.