reading, say, is delivered to an officer in Asia Minor; it will instantly be taken from him, returned to the Capital, and there lost to sight for months before it is discovered to be inoffensive and allowed to proceed. For a long while the prisoners’ letters were cut down to the barest minimum both in number and length, because the censor at headquarters could not deal with more. It appears that it has not been possible to carry out this work in the camps for the highly Turkish reason that the various authorities concerned mistrusted each other too deeply. The housing, feeding, and medical care of the prisoners, the delivery of their parcels and correspondence, their pay, the exchange of invalids and others, the inspection of internment camps, and the thousand and one details of the treatment of prisoners, have been the subject of constant attention and voluminous correspondence, hampered not only by the callous obstinacy of the Turkish Government, but by the failure of Turkish officials even to read the communications addressed to them. CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE THE DARDANELLES 27 CHAPTER II CONSTANTINOPLE 41 CHAPTER III THE ARMENIANS 57 CHAPTER IV THE WANK 72 CHAPTER V ANGORA 91 CHAPTER VI THE FIRST WINTER 109 CHAPTER VII AFION-KARA-HISSAR 127 CHAPTER VIII THE ARMENIAN CHURCH 144 CHAPTER IX THE LOWER CAMP 162 CHAPTER X THE SECOND YEAR 179 CHAPTER XI THE LAST YEAR IN AFION 195 CHAPTER XII OUR ALLIES 208 CHAPTER XIII THE BERNE CONVENTION 220 CHAPTER XIV SMYRNA 229 CHAPTER XV THE SHIP 249 A PRISONER IN TURKEY CHAPTER I THE DARDANELLES At dawn on the 9th of August, 1915, the 6th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment received an order to attack the great hill that towers above Anafarta. The order was late, hours too late, for the messenger had lost his way; so, although we did not know it at the time, we had already forfeited our chance, and were launched upon a forlorn endeavour. The rampart of hills to the east of us was black against the chill, pale sky as we moved out across the grey flats that led up to the foot of Teke Tepe, towering up to nearly 1,000 feet ahead of us. And we came under fire from our right flank almost from the very start.