[1] The particulars as to name and rank are given in the original
documents, but must for obvious reasons be suppressed in this pamphlet.
[2] The italics are those of the author of the Memorandum.
[3] Here again the italics are those of the author of the Memorandum.
[4] The italics are the Editor's.
[5] 1914.
[6] They were at work in the German hospital at Erzeroum from October,
1914, to April, 1915.--Editor.
[7] 7th June: Allgemeine Missions-Zeitschrift, November, 1915.
[8] Amounting to about 20,000-25,000 people in all: Allgemeine
Missions-Zeitschrift, November, 1915.
[9] One of the two authors of the present statement, which has been
drafted in the first person by the other witness, but represents the
experience of both. The Editor is in possession of the drafter's name,
but does not know the identity of Sister B., Dr. A., or Mr. G.--Editor.
[10] A defile, 12 hours' journey from Erzindjan, where the Euphrates
flows through a narrow gorge between two walls of rock.
[11] i.e., after the departure of the last convoys of exiles from
Erzindjan (10th June), not after the narrators were informed of the
massacres by their cook and by the two Armenian girls. The passages
about the cobbler, the cook, and the two girls are evidently in
parenthesis, and interrupt the sequence of the narrative.--Editor.
[12] The further details are given in the Allgemeine
Missions-Zeitschrift. November, 1915: "When we exclaimed in horror:
'So you fire on women and children!' the soldiers answered: 'What could
we do? It was our orders.' One of them added: 'It was a heart-breaking
sight. For that matter, I did not shoot.'"--Editor.
[13] On the evening of the 11th. we saw soldiers returning to town
laden with loot. We heard from both Turks and Armenians that children's
corpses were strewn along the road.
[14] Every day ten or twelve men had been killed and thrown into the
ravines.--Allgemeine Missions-Zeitschrift.
[15] This was not the route followed by the convoys of exiles.
[16] This incident was communicated to Mr. DB. by DC. Effendi,
a gentleman who had held high office under the Ottoman Government
till the outbreak of the War.
[17] Mr. Vartkes was an Armenian deputy in the Ottoman Parliament,
who was murdered, together with another deputy, Mr. Zohrab, when he
was being escorted by gendarmes from Aleppo to be court-martialled
at Diyarbekir.--Editor.
[18] "We have just picked up fifteen babies. Three are already
dead. They were terribly thin and ailing when we found them. Ah! If
we could only write all that we see."--Extract from a letter dated
Marash, 4th June, 1915, published in "Sonnenaufgang," September, 1915.
[19] The italics are the Editor's.
[20] The italics are the Editor's.
[21] This was a Friday.
[22] The italics are the Editor's.
[23] The italics are the Editor's.
[24] The italics are the Editor's.
[25] The italics are the Editor's.
[26] The italics are the Editor's.
[27] The remarks of this Headmaster, who only calls attention to
the personal inconvenience suffered by the teachers in the school,
is in singular contrast with the impassioned feelings of pity for
the Armenians expressed and undoubtedly felt by the author of the
report.--Editor's Note.
[28] The italics are the Editor's. The fact which comes out clearly in
several of the documents included in this pamphlet, that many German
Consuls reported indignantly about these horrors, and that their
reports were left unheeded, throws a lurid light on the attitude of
the German Government.--Editor's Note.
[29] See the last note (Editor's Note).
[30] The italics are the Editor's.
[31] The italics are the Editor's.
[32] The italics are the Editor's.
[33] Moslem immigrants from Europe.
[34] The italics are the Editor's.
[35] The italics are the Editor's.
[36] The italics are the Editor's.