[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.