[241]. Reproduced in the Paris journal Le Matin, 6th May, 1916, in a special despatch dated Zürich, 5th May.
[242]. The vast majority of secondary schools in the Empire being, of course, American, Armenian or Greek, and practically none of them Turkish.
[243]. See [Annexe A].
[244]. The Delegation of 1912 was nominated by His Holiness the Katholikos of Etchmiadzin. Its President was His Excellency Boghos Nubar Pasha.
[245]. The Ottoman Government, for statistical reasons, added the Vilayet of Trebizond to the original Six, the Moslem element being here in a sufficient majority to balance, to some extent, the Armenian majority in the rest.
[247]. Proclamations announcing and justifying the deportation of the Armenians are quoted in Docs. [83] and [120] of this volume, while the alleged text of one of them has been published complete in the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post of the 5th February, 1915, and is reproduced here as [Annexe C]. to this summary. The latter document differs in its wording and in the order of its clauses from the versions quoted in the places mentioned above, but there is no reason to doubt its genuineness. Probably the Central Government communicated its instructions to the local authorities by telegraph or secret despatch, and the local authorities embodied these instructions, at their own discretion, in a printed proclamation to the inhabitants of their province.
[248]. See, however, Doc. [64].
[249]. These Moslem immigrants were particularly in evidence in Cilicia, and in the Vilayets of Erzeroum and Trebizond.