[141] Lepsius, “Armenia and Europe.” See _The New Armenia_ of June 15,
1916, New York.
[142] _The Public Ledger_ (Philadelphia), Feb. 17, 1896, had the
following editorial comment on a local Turkish official report: “What
purports to be an official list of Turkish outrages in the Province
of Harpoot and some of the neighboring villages, prepared by a local
Turkish authority, is published. The total number killed is given as
39,234, and the number of destitute as 94,770. The account is somewhat
mysterious, as it does not show for what purpose it was made, nor does
the report state how a matter, usually so jealously guarded, came
to be made public, but it is _authoritative_, and the details are
more sickening than the bare aggregate, as they show the number of
persons burned to death; the number who perished from hunger and cold;
the number of women outraged; the number of forcible conversions to
Islam; the number forcibly married to Moslems, etc. It is a chapter
more worthy of the Dark Ages than modern civilization, but modern
civilization does not seem able to prevent its repetition at the
pleasure of the Turk.”
[143] Bliss, “Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities,” pp. 553-4.
[144] Greene, “Leavening the Levant,” p. 36.
[145] Report of Vice-Consul Fitzmaurice, Turkey, No. V., 1896.
[146] Greene, “Leavening the Levant,” pp. 177-8.
[147] Bryce, “Transcaucasia and Ararat,” p. 520, 4th edition.
[148] Washburn, “Fifty Years in Constantinople,” pp. 245-9.
[149] Andrews, “A History of All Nations,” Vol. XX, p. 341. Published
by Lea Brothers and Co., Philadelphia.