In Adabazar 500 leading Armenians were arrested and imprisoned in the Armenian church. They had their daily tortures and beatings to induce them to implicate one another, and to deliver their arms. Whether they were all the members of a society or not it did not matter. For ten days these men have been tortured, and the whole population of the Armenians--some 20,000 or more--were terrorized and paralysed. Towards the end of this time, the head of the society who had been an exile suddenly returned. At the trial--or rather at the Inquisition--he boldly answered: “Why do you punish these men? If there is any fault it is mine, and yet I also am guiltless. _This society was organized with the permission of the Government. You allowed us to obtain firearms._” The eye-witness further states that soon after this the whole Armenian population of Adabazar was “turned into the streets to wait their turn to go. There they waited, with their baggage, for days by the roadside near the station. As soon as they vacated their houses, refugees (Mohammedans) from Macedonia took possession of them.” “The people who had any money went to Konia by freight cars, being allowed to take only a few possessions with them. They were told to leave their possessions in the churches and they would be safeguarded, but the same promise had been made in Sabandja, and the church had been looted almost before the people were out of the city; so nobody trusted this promise. The exiles were crowded on top of their possessions, sixty to eighty people in a car marked forty people. “From Konia they were to go by foot or carriage to a desert place called Mosul (province) in Mesopotamia. Those who had no money must take the entire journey (about 1000 miles) by foot.” Here is a portion of the description of an eye-witness: